This chapter features veterinarians as they made ethical decisions: how decisions affect them personally as they think as moral practitioners.

In this chapter, examples of tests employed to investigate behavioural effects of ageing, development and experience in animals are discussed.

This chapter describes the most common physical restraint techniques used in horse training and their effects on behaviour and welfare.

This chapter describes the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of round pens in horse training.

This book contains 16 chapters that discuss mental and emotional health in the veterinary practice, ruling out physical disorders leading to behavioural changes, addressing pain in veterinary psychiatry, normal behaviour, raising mentally and emotionally healthy pets, diagnosis, learning principles ...

This chapter focuses particularly on the features of pain that are relevant to changes in behaviour and their impact on the emotional state of the animal.

This describes the preweaning influences on puppies and kittens and the implications for a new pet owner selecting a dog or cat, the advice which the veterinary profession can give to minimize the risk of problem development in dogs and cats through appropriate early life experiences, some critical ...

This book draws attention to the need for a comprehensive and rigorous focus on local solutions to improve the welfare of captive elephants, their mahouts and local residents, and to enhance tourists' experiences of elephant tourism. It achieves this by critically reviewing recent research into...

This chapter is a record of interviews with John Roberts, director of the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation, previously the director of elephants at the Anantara Golden Triangle Resort. The two major topics explored were, first, how John become interested in elephant welfare issues, and,...

This chapter details the development of elephant tourism in Thailand. Following a logging ban enacted by the government in 1989, in response to devastating floods and loss of life brought about by unsustainable logging practices, elephants used in logging and their mahouts suddenly found themselves ...