APBC Conferences

Keynote One Welfare considers the links between keeping and interacting with animals and how this affects their welfare, human wellbeing and the environment Pets and their People-Illustrating approaches being developed and delivered in the UK, helping to support human and canine health benefits of outdoor exercise, whilst minimising adverse impacts on other people, livestock and wildlife. -Discussing the “pet-effect-paradox”, circumstances and prerequisites for mutually beneficial relationships between humans and animals.

The Darker Side of Pet Ownership -Re-examining the impact and future of pet keeping by weighing up the potential environmental harms and benefits derived from keeping animals as nonhuman social support providers. -Illustrating how the selling and keeping of wild animals for pets has manifested in a tragic and worsening global situation where animal welfare, species conservation, habitat ecology, and public health and safety have suffered. Proven solutions and recurring obstacles will also be examined. -Strays, street, feral, community, roaming, free-roaming, owned, confined……. what do these terms mean? sharing Dogs Trust’s experience in working with communities to address canine welfare problems local to those communities, for the long-term benefits of both the dogs and humans. -Considerations for having and implementing no-kill policies in ways that avoid or reduce unintended consequences.