The journey to animal welfare improvement (2007)

Whay, H. R.

Abstract

The process of driving improvement in animal welfare has three stages: 1) assessment of animal welfare, 2) identification of the risk factors potentially leading to a compromise in animal welfare, and 3) interventions, in response to the risk factors, to bring about improvement in animal welfare. Interventions have to motivate the animal owner or carer to make changes to their own behaviour on behalf of a third party: the animal. A few examples of interventions are given.