Animal welfare defined in terms of attempts to cope with the environment

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A hypothetical strategy for the objective evaluation of animal well-being and quality of life using a dog model

In this paper I describe a hypothetical strategy for assessing poor and good welfare with the aim of making a judgement about an animal’s quality of life. The concepts discussed here may also contribute to the notion of what makes ‘a life worth living’. The strategy involves attributing scores to positive and negative aspects of […]