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Jan 23, 2024 Changing Human-Dog Interactions: One Organization at a Time

Posted at 09:47h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Global Dog Campaign, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Thousands of nongovernment organizations (NGOs) are working worldwide to improve the well-being of dogs. Still, providing even a rough estimate of the global impact of these dog welfare projects has proved very challenging. Some organizations – such as the Soi Dog Foundation – have and...

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Jan 23, 2024 A History of Alternatives to the Use of Animals in Research and Testing

Posted at 09:40h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Laboratory Animals, Tales of WellBeing - By Dr. John Parascandola

I have recently completed the manuscript for a book on The History of the Development of Alternatives to Animals in Research and Testing, which is scheduled to be published by Purdue University Press in July 2024. Andrew Rowan has asked me to write a short...

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Dec 20, 2023 Well-Being

Posted at 08:44h In Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

“A responsible caretaker of our world must safeguard people, animals, and the environment for each element is tightly connected and dependent on the well-being of the others.” ~Andrew RowanGlobal interest in the well-being of people, animals, and a sustainable environment has grown dramatically. This increasing...

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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...

Nov 02, 2023 International Companion Animal Welfare Conference (ICAWC) 2023

Posted at 16:07h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

Approximately twenty-five years ago, the Dogs Trust in the United Kingdom began organizing annual conferences, now generally abbreviated as ICAWC (standing for the International Companion Animal Welfare Conference), in different Eastern European cities. The Dogs Trust 2016 Annual Report explains that these conferences share ideas...

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Sep 29, 2023 Elephant Care and Welfare in Southeast Asia Today: Part 3

Posted at 16:34h In Animal Sentience, Articles, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By Bjarne Clausen, DVM and Taweepoke Angkawanish, Ph.D.

After the ban on logging in Thailand, thousands of elephants became "unemployed." Some roamed the big cities like Bangkok, where mahouts sold fruit to citizens and tourists to feed their elephants. A city is not a good place for an elephant, but the elephants could...

Sep 29, 2023 Review of “The Rat Trap” by Pandora Pound

Posted at 16:27h In Animal Well-being, Book Review, Laboratory Animals, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing - By Laura Gosse

A new book, The Rat Trap by Pandora Pound, has just been published, criticizing modern medicine's reliance on animal research. Pound is a medical sociologist now employed by The Safer Medicines Trust, a UK charity whose mission "is to make medicines safer by facilitating a...

2023 - 3Rs Over the Edge - REgulatory Acceptance & Next-Gen Education, Niagara Falls, Canada - August 2023

Sep 29, 2023 Laboratory Animals and Non-Animal Alternatives

Posted at 16:23h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Laboratory Animals, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The 12th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences ran from August 27-31, 2023, at a hotel in Niagara Falls, Canada. There have been many advances in reducing and replacing laboratory animals since the first of these World Congresses, an initiative...

Aug 17, 2023 The Asian Elephant: Training and Control (Part 2)

Posted at 17:50h In Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, Tales of WellBeing - By Bjarne Clausen, DVM and Taweepoke Angkawanish, Ph.D.

The Thai Government has a long tradition of managing elephants. Thai laws regulating the treatment of elephants have been adapted to address elephants involved in the tourist industry. If one only seeks improved conditions for the elephants in the service of man, it is the...

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Aug 17, 2023 Rudyard Kipling’s – The Cat That Walked by Himself

Posted at 16:18h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

The International Fund for Animal Welfare established August 8th as International Cat Day in 2002. Eighteen years later, the British NGO, International Cat Care, took over the custodianship of the day. This August, WellBeing International suggests celebrating the day by reading one of Rudyard Kipling’s...

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