Companion Animal Care and Welfare: The UFAW Companion Animal Handbook

498 Pages·2018·10.65 MB·English

by  James Yeates

Companion Animal Care
and Welfare
The Universities Federation
for Animal Welfare
UFAW, founded in 1926, is an internationally recognised, independent, scientific and educational
animal welfare charity that promotes high standards of welfare for farm, companion, laboratory and
captive wild animals, and for those animals with which we interact in the wild. It works to improve
animals’ lives by:
• Funding and publishing developments in the science and technology that underpin advances
in animal welfare;
• Promoting education in animal care and welfare;
• Providing information, organising meetings and publishing books, videos, articles, technical
reports and the journal Animal Welfare;
• Providing expert advice to government departments and other bodies and helping to draft and
amend laws and guidelines;
• Enlisting the energies of animal keepers, scientists, veterinarians, lawyers and others who care
about animals.
Improvements in the care of animals are not now likely to come of their own
accord, merely by wishing them: there must be research…and it is in sponsoring
research of this kind, and making its results widely known, that UFAW performs
one of its most valuable services.
Sir Peter Medawar CBE FRS, 8 May 1957
Nobel Laureate (1960), Chairman of the UFAW Scientific Advisory Committee (1951–1962)
UFAW relies on the generosity of the public through legacies and donations to carry out its work,
improving the welfare of animals now and in the future. For further information about UFAW and
how you can help promote and support its work, please contact us at the following address:
Universities Federation for Animal Welfare
The Old School, Brewhouse Hill, Wheathampstead, Herts AL4 8AN, UK
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UFAW’s aim regarding the UFAW/Wiley‐Blackwell Animal Welfare book series is to promote inter-
est and debate in the subject and to disseminate information relevant to improving the welfare of
kept animals and of those harmed in the wild through human agency. The books in this series are
the works of their authors, and the views they express do not necessarily reflect the views of UFAW.
Companion Animal Care
and Welfare
The UFAW Companion Animal Handbook
Edited by
James Yeates, MRCVS
Cats Protection, Chelwood Gate
Sussex, UK
This edition first published 2019
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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data
Names: Yeates, James, 1980– editor. | Universities Federation for Animal Welfare.
Title: Companion animal care and welfare : the UFAW companion animal handbook /
edited by James Yeates.
Description: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018024349 (print) | LCCN 2018025479 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781118688762 (Adobe PDF) | ISBN 9781118688786 (ePub) |
ISBN 9781118688793 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Pets. | Animal welfare. | MESH: Pets | Animal Welfare | Animal Diseases
Classification: LCC SF411.5 (ebook) | LCC SF411.5 .C644 2019 (print) | NLM SF 411.5 |
DDC 636.08/3–dc23
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Contents
Contributor List vii
Foreword x
Robert Hubrecht
Prologue xii
James Yeates
1 Introduction: The Care and Animal Welfare of All Species 1
James Yeates
2 Carnivorans (Carnivora) 39
James Yeates
3 Cats (Felis silvestris catus) 52
Irene Rochlitz and James Yeates
4 Dogs (Canis familiaris) 81
Nicola Rooney and Kevin Stafford
5 Ferrets (Mustela putorius furo) 124
Claudia Vinke, Nico J. Schoemaker, and Yvonne R. A. van Zeeland
6 Rabbits and Rodents (Glires) 145
James Yeates and Vera Baumans
7 European Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) 163
Siobhan Mullan and Richard Saunders
8 Guinea Pigs, Chinchillas, and Degus (Caviomorphs) 185
Anne McBride and Anna Meredith
9 Golden Hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) 203
Bryan Howard
vi Contents
10 Mongolian Gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) 218
Elke Scheibler and Eva Waiblinger
11 Domestic Rats (Rattus norvegicus) 233
Oliver Burman
12 Ungulates (Ungulata) 249
James Yeates and Paul McGreevy
13 Horses (Equus caballus) 266
Paul McGreevy and James Yeates
14 Birds (Avia) 293
John Chitty and James Yeates
15 Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata) 318
Graham Law, Rudolf Nager, and Michael Wilkinson
16 True Parrots (Psittacoidea) 338
Joy Mench, Joanne Paul-Murphy, Kirk Klasing, and Victoria Cussen
17 Pigeons (Columba livia) 355
John Chitty
18 Reptiles (Reptilia) 371
Joanna Hedley, Robert Johnson, and James Yeates
19 Central Bearded Dragons (Pogona vitticeps) 395
Robert Johnson and Sophie Adwick
20 Nonvenomous Colubrid Snakes (Colubridae) 412
Joanna Hedley and Kevin Eatwell
21 Mediterranean Tortoises (Testudo spp.) 425
Andrew C. Highfield
22 Ornamental Fish (Actinopterygii) 440
Lynne Sneddon and David Wolfenden
23 Goldfish (Carassius auratus) 467
Culum Brown, David Wolfenden, and Lynne Sneddon
Index 479
Contributor List
Sophie Adwick
Independent, Horsham, UK
Vera Baumans
Laboratory Animal Science Specialist, Department of Animals, Science and Society,
Division Laboratory Animal Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Culum Brown
Department Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Oliver Burman
School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
John Chitty
Anton Vets, Unit 11, Andover, UK
Victoria Cussen
Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Kevin Eatwell
Hospital for Small Animals, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Midlothian, UK
Joanna Hedley
Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital, The Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
Andrew C. Highfield
Casa Karma, Almeria, Spain
Bryan Howard
The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Robert Johnson
Zoologica Consulting, Mosman, Australia
viii Contributor List
Kirk Klasing
Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Graham Law
College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Anne McBride
School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Paul McGreevy
The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Joy Mench
Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Anna Meredith
Hospital for Small Animals, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of
Edinburgh, Midlothian, UK
Siobhan Mullan
Department Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Rudolf Nager
Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of
Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Joanne Paul‐Murphy
School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Irene Rochlitz
Department of Veterinary Medicine, Centre for Animal Welfare and Anthrozoology,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Nicola Rooney
Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Richard Saunders
Bristol Zoological Society Ltd., Clifton, Bristol, UK
Elke Scheibler
School of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University
of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK
Nico J. Schoemaker
Division of Zoological Medicine
Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Lynne Sneddon
Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Kevin Stafford
Institute of Veterinary Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston
North, New Zealand
Contributor List ix
Claudia Vinke
Department of Animals in Science & Society, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht,
The Netherlands
Eva Waiblinger
Independent, Ebmatingen, Switzerland
Michael Wilkinson
Biological Services Division, Veterinary Research Facility, Glasgow, UK
David Wolfenden
Blue Planet Aquarium, Longlooms Road, Cheshire Oaks, UK
James Yeates
Cats Protection, Chelwood Gate, Sussex, UK
Yvonne R. A. van Zeeland
Division of Zoological Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion
Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Foreword
Humans have kept animals as pets for at least 12 000 years, but possibly for much
longer. During this time, most animals were kept for practical reasons as farmed ani-
mals for food or as working animals, but we know that pet keeping was widespread in
recent hunter‐gatherer societies, suggesting it may well have also occurred in Palaeolithic
societies. In other words, many people just seem to like having an animal around.
Keeping, feeding, and caring for animals can be a substantial cost, and until recently, it
tended to be the better off who kept companion animals. Today, however, the practice
is becoming much more widespread, and the number of companion animals throughout
the world is increasing dramatically.
The vast majority of those people who keep companion animals do so because they
have a love of animals. Most wish to keep them healthy and happy, and indeed, many
treat their pet as a member of the family. However, it is all too easy to misunderstand
animals’ needs and to make mistakes that result in poor welfare or suffering. Although
companion animals may be treated as one of the family, animals are not humans, and
their needs are often quite different to those of humans. The fact is, that keeping and
caring for animals properly requires knowledge gained through experience, research, or
education, and it is not just owners who need this information. Others such as veteri-
narians, shelter and quarantine staff, and those responsible for setting or enforcing
standards all need to understand how to meet companion animals’ needs.
The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) was founded with the inten-
tion of using science to inform our understanding of how to care for and meet the needs
of animals and, for many years, UFAW has produced handbooks on the care and man-
agement of animals used in research (first edition 1947) and farm animals (first edition
1971). In these ‘handbooks’, which have developed into quite heavy tomes, experts in
the field sift and synthesise the available specialist and scientific knowledge to provide
authoritative and accessible advice for those at the sharp end who have to make practi-
cal decisions on the care of these animals. We were therefore delighted when James
Yeates approached us and offered to add to the series by producing a handbook using
the same approach for companion animals. Yeates has already written a book for the
UFAW/Wiley animal welfare series on Animal Welfare in Veterinary Practice and is