Animal Abuse
Hello, welcome back anyone who has read this before and welcome to any new comers, I hope you enjoy. Whilst deciding what to write about this week I saw an article in the new on the vet times about vets reporting animals abuse so I read the article and wanted to write about it.
Animal abuse is a serious thing, it can be as simple as not giving your animal one of the 5 freedoms. the freedom from thirst and hunger, the freedom from discomfort, the freedom from pain injury and disease, the freedom to display normal behaviour and finally the freedom from fear and distress. Each of these is very important they provide the basis of the animals welfare; which is providing for the animals physical and mental needs. The definition for animals abuse from Wikipedia is Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse or animal neglect, is both the unintentional (neglect) and the intentional infliction by humans of suffering or harm upon any non-human animal, regardless of whether the act is against the law. More narrowly, it can be the causing of harm or suffering for specific achievement, such as killing animals for food or for their fur; opinions differ about the extent of cruelty associated with a given method of slaughter. Cruelty to animals sometimes encompasses inflicting harm or suffering for personal amusement. In the UK the RSPCA deals with many animal cruelty claims and has the ability to remove an animal from someone's care if they feel the animal is being neglected.
Now onto this article I read, it was about a survey online for vets to complete to allow a University of Kent postgraduate student Ornela Sienauskaite, who studies forensic psychology, to enhance and develop the vets ability to report animal abuse cases. She decided to make this survey when reading an article comparing a doctors ability to recognise child abuse compared to a vets ability to notice animal abuse. On reading into this a bit more she discovered that doctors are provided with much more training to help spot child sex abuse and child abuse so they are more confident in the procedure of reporting this concern. Whereas vets aren't confident in reporting animal abuse as they aren't trained for it. Ornela believes that this survey could be very helpful in developing useful training tools to help vets know how to report and spot animal abuse. This survey has been accepted by the Links Group and agency that promotes safety and wellbeing of vulnerable people, children and animals. So if you want to find out more about this survey and the Links Group then visit Vet Times news page and the article was published on the 24/4/17.
I hope that this was informative, I feel that this is a really important matter and that like humans animals should not be abused they can't speak up for themselves so it is important that our vets know how to spot and report animal abuse and neglect so that fewer animals have to suffer and the hand of people who don't care for them properly. That being said I have a great about of respect for people who realise that they can no longer care for their animals and so give them up to a charity to be rehomed, it takes so much strength to do that but it shows your love for your animal knowing that the family they go to will look after them and love them as much as you did.
Thank you for reading sorry its quite short, I don't have as much free time as I used to, but anyway hope you enjoyed it and see you next week.
Animal abuse is a serious thing, it can be as simple as not giving your animal one of the 5 freedoms. the freedom from thirst and hunger, the freedom from discomfort, the freedom from pain injury and disease, the freedom to display normal behaviour and finally the freedom from fear and distress. Each of these is very important they provide the basis of the animals welfare; which is providing for the animals physical and mental needs. The definition for animals abuse from Wikipedia is Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse or animal neglect, is both the unintentional (neglect) and the intentional infliction by humans of suffering or harm upon any non-human animal, regardless of whether the act is against the law. More narrowly, it can be the causing of harm or suffering for specific achievement, such as killing animals for food or for their fur; opinions differ about the extent of cruelty associated with a given method of slaughter. Cruelty to animals sometimes encompasses inflicting harm or suffering for personal amusement. In the UK the RSPCA deals with many animal cruelty claims and has the ability to remove an animal from someone's care if they feel the animal is being neglected.
Now onto this article I read, it was about a survey online for vets to complete to allow a University of Kent postgraduate student Ornela Sienauskaite, who studies forensic psychology, to enhance and develop the vets ability to report animal abuse cases. She decided to make this survey when reading an article comparing a doctors ability to recognise child abuse compared to a vets ability to notice animal abuse. On reading into this a bit more she discovered that doctors are provided with much more training to help spot child sex abuse and child abuse so they are more confident in the procedure of reporting this concern. Whereas vets aren't confident in reporting animal abuse as they aren't trained for it. Ornela believes that this survey could be very helpful in developing useful training tools to help vets know how to report and spot animal abuse. This survey has been accepted by the Links Group and agency that promotes safety and wellbeing of vulnerable people, children and animals. So if you want to find out more about this survey and the Links Group then visit Vet Times news page and the article was published on the 24/4/17.
I hope that this was informative, I feel that this is a really important matter and that like humans animals should not be abused they can't speak up for themselves so it is important that our vets know how to spot and report animal abuse and neglect so that fewer animals have to suffer and the hand of people who don't care for them properly. That being said I have a great about of respect for people who realise that they can no longer care for their animals and so give them up to a charity to be rehomed, it takes so much strength to do that but it shows your love for your animal knowing that the family they go to will look after them and love them as much as you did.
Thank you for reading sorry its quite short, I don't have as much free time as I used to, but anyway hope you enjoyed it and see you next week.
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