The Four I's of Animal Suffering

The four "I‘s" of animal suffering

There are four situations where humans are directly responsible for animal suffering -called the four "Is":

• Ignorance - not knowing what to do or claiming this in defence.

• Inexperience - knowing what to do, but not knowing how to do it.

• Incompetence - knowing what to do and how to do it, but inability to do it.

• Inconsideration - being able to do it, but not caring.

(From Gregory, N (1988). Animal Welfare and Meat Science, CAB 1998, taken from Clive Dalton's blog: http://woolshed1.blogspot.co.uk/2008_11_01_archive.html)

Anthrozoology resources

http://www.humananimalscience.com/ - Podcasts

Perception and perceptual judgements

http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/cece/research#section-1

"ecological approaches suggest that perception may depend on contextual factors not previously considered. For example, research shows that hills seem steeper to a person wearing a heavy backpack. Contextual factors influence perception because they are relevant to actions: A hill is harder to climb for an encumbered person, and thus, appears as steeper. We showed that a psychosocial resource, social support, can also affect the visual perception of slants (Schnall, Harber, Stefanucci & Proffitt, 2008). Further, after having consumed glucose people find a hill less steep than after having consumed noncaloric sweetener, presumably because glucose provides energy (Schnall, Zadra & Proffitt, 2010). Thus, whether or not one has resources available changes how one sees the physical world."

Resource Guarding

Links

http://ahimsadogtraining.com/blog/resource-guarding/

http://www.4pawsu.com/Donaldson.pdf

http://www.patriciamcconnell.com/theotherendoftheleash/resource-guarding-treatment-and-prevention

Ideas for games and enrichment for dogs

http://pawsitivedawgs.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/enrichments/

Dog reactivity and thresholds

Reactivity

http://www.dogsoutloud.org/2013/03/leash-gremlins-need-love-too/

https://www.patriciamcconnell.com/theotherendoftheleash/dog-dog-reactivity-ii-the-basics




Thresholds

http://suzanneclothier.com/the-articles/understanding-threshholds-its-more-under-or-overhttp://boogiebt.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/boogs-look1.jpg