Learn about the following areas of Animal Welfare:
- Animal Psychology and Sentience
- Managing Animal Welfare
- Animal Welfare Services -shelters and rescue centres
- Animal Welfare for Pets, Work Animals and Animals in Sport
- Animal Welfare for Farm Animals
- Animal Welfare for Wildlife: Free and Captive
There are 9 Lessons in this course:
1. Scope and Nature of Animal Welfare
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- History
- Nature of animal welfare
- Scope of animal welfare
- Widely accepted animal ethics theories
- Animal rights
- Animal welfare
- Animal welfare today
2. Psychology and Sentience
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- The science and philosophy of psychology and sentience
- Sentience
- Sapience
- Anthropomorphism and Transference
- Compassionate conservation
- Sense and Perception
- Cognition
- Animal emotion
- Animal psychopathology
- Behavioural disorders
- How an understanding of sentience can influence animal welfare
3. Managing Animal Welfare
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- Managing Animal welfare
4. Animal Protection Services
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- Understanding and inspecting health issues
- Inspecting the health of animals
- Signs of ill health
- Differential diagnosis
5. Animal Rescue Services
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- Health and welfare
- Animal First Aid
- Bone and joint problems
- Poisoning
- Restraining animals during First Aid
- First Aid for wildlife
6. Animal Health Services
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- Animal health services
- Routine health treatments
- Complementary animal health services
- Employment
7. Animal Welfare for Pets, Work Animals and Animals in Sport
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- Welfare for companion animals
- Welfare for work animals
- Welfare for animals in sport
8. Animal Welfare for Farm Animals
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- Welfare for farm animals
- Factory farming
- Organic farming
- Other aspects of animal welfare
- Welfare issues for farm animals bred for alternative products
9. Animal Welfare for Wildlife: Free and Captive
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- Welfare for captive wild animals
- Welfare for free wild animals
- Protection of Wildlife
- Legislation
- Codes of practice
- Animal behaviour
- Environmental law enforcement: case studies