Working/Equid Animals Archives

Animals in War Memorial | credit: Darren Baker, Shutterstock

Nov 13, 2024 Animals in Conflict – Part 1: Conscripts and Victims

Posted at 13:19h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Farm Animals, WellBeing News, Wild Animals, Working/Equid Animals - By Janice H. Cox, MBA and Jackson Zee

This article is the first installment of a three-part newsletter series examining the impact of human conflicts on animals. The newsletter series is adapted from the original blog by Cox and Zee, which was published by the Conflict and Environment Observatory and republished with their...

Alachua Sterilization Program | Photo credit: Julie Levy

Mar 04, 2024 Addressing the Veterinarian and Veterinary Technician Shortage: Innovations in Animal Healthcare Access

Posted at 11:56h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Human Well-being, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News, Working/Equid Animals - By Robert Murtaugh, DVM, MS, DACVIM, DACVECC, FCCM

The animal healthcare industry faces a formidable challenge: a persistent shortage of veterinarians and veterinary technicians. The shortage stresses existing practitioners, resulting in prolonged wait times for companion animal clients, inadequate care in equine and bovine practice sectors, and significant challenges in shelter medicine. Furthermore,...

Horseless Carriage | Photo credit: Carriage Horse Freedom

Nov 02, 2023 From Horse-Drawn to Electric Carriages: Promoting a Paradigm Change

Posted at 16:12h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Working/Equid Animals - By Janet White

Crowded 21st-century city streets carrying high-speed traffic are inappropriate places for horses. This seems obvious, but 2,000-pound horses may still be observed weaving through heavy traffic daily in cities across the US and worldwide, to the peril of themselves and all the pedestrians, motorists, and...

Photo of turkey with bird flu | Photo credit: amianmathur, iStock

Feb 03, 2023 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

Posted at 10:37h In Letter from the President, Well-being, Working/Equid Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

The world is tired of pandemics and the associated restrictions that new and emerging diseases have placed on our lives. But some disease threats are too severe to be ignored.ContextIn 2006, Lantern Books published "Bird Flu: A Virus of our Own Hatching," by Dr....

Oct 19, 2022 The Donkey: An Unsung Hero of Human Civilization

Posted at 20:33h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Working/Equid Animals - By Andrew Rowan

Noted anthropologist and commentator on human-animal interactions and a great admirer of donkeys and their grit, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas wrote the Foreword for a 2010 book by Andy Merrifield, "The Wisdom of Donkeys." Thomas has great admiration for donkeys and their fortitude. In her Foreword...

Mar 12, 2021 Paving the Way to Well-being: The First Nationally Recognized Assistance Dogs

Posted at 09:07h In Animals, Articles, Companion Animals, Tales of WellBeing, Working/Equid Animals - By Sheila O'Brien, M.Ed.

Today, it is not unusual to see assistance dogs in stores, restaurants, on public transportation and in the workplace assisting their human partners to overcome the boundaries that their disabilities present. Presently, there are approximately 30,000 actively working assistance dogs making the world a better...

Man with his service dog | Photo credit: Jamie Casper

Feb 12, 2021 Dogs Helping Veterans

Posted at 10:46h In Articles, Companion Animals, Tales of WellBeing, Working/Equid Animals - By Andrew Rowan

Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in the use of assistance dogs to help military veterans cope with PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and other challenges posed by a return to civilian life. Numerous organizations have been founded to provide such...

Sep 13, 2019 Third Africa Animal Welfare Conference, September 2-4, 2019

Posted at 11:15h In Articles, Farm Animals, WellBeing News, Wildlife on Land, Working/Equid Animals - By Kathleen Rowan

The Third Africa Animal Welfare Conference took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the beginning of September (the first two were held in Kenya in 2017 and 2018). There were over 200 attendees drawn from all regions of Africa and from eight non-African countries. As...

Sep 13, 2019 Third Africa Animal Welfare Conference

Posted at 10:56h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Farm Animals, Letter from the President, Resources, WellBeing News, Wild Animals, Working/Equid Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The Third African Animal Welfare Conference took place in Addis Ababa at the beginning of September (the first two were held in Kenya in 2017 and 2018). There were over 200 attendees drawn from all regions of Africa and from eight non-African countries. As in...

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