Investigating the Motivational Priorities Underlying Equestrians’ Horse-Keeping and Training Practices

Luke, Karen L.; Rawluk, Andrea; McAdie, Tina; Smith, Bradley P.; Warren-Smith, Amanda K.

doi:10.1080/08927936.2024.2303228

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2024

DOI: 10.1080/08927936.2024.2303228

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Investigating the Motivational Priorities Underlying Equestrians’ Horse-Keeping and Training Practices

Karen L. Luke,

Andrea Rawluk,

Tina McAdie

et al.

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Introducing the Mellorater—The Five Domains Model in a Welfare Monitoring App for Animal Guardians

Wilkins,

McGreevy,

Cosh

et al. 2024

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When monitoring an animal’s welfare, it helps to have comprehensive and day-to-day information about the animal’s life. The goal is to ensure that animal guardians (carers, keepers, and owners) use such information to act in the animals’ best interests. This article introduces the Mellorater, an animal welfare monitoring app based on the 2020 Five Domains Model. This framework provides a means of capturing comprehensive information about the world in which individual animals exist. The Mellorater asks animal guardians to rate their agreement with 18 statements covering any focal animal’s nutrition, environment, health, and behavioural interactions using a five-point Likert scale. No specialist training is required other than following straightforward instructions on using the app, which are provided. The Mellorater is not proposed as a validated welfare auditing tool because it relies on reflective self-reporting and, thus, is vulnerable to the user’s subjectivity. If users’ subjectivity is stable over time, then the longitudinal data may be considered useful proxies for trends in quality of life. That said, it has the potential to be used by trained auditors if scientifically validated, species-specific indicators are applied. The Mellorater collects anonymous data and has been approved for a study to explore how the use of such scales may differ among guardians of different species and in different contexts. In this paper, we conduct the following: (1) summarise the app’s purposes; (2) clarify its capabilities and limitations; and (3) invite animal welfare scholars, veterinarians, health and welfare professionals, and animal guardians to use it.

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Investigating the Motivational Priorities Underlying Equestrians’ Horse-Keeping and Training Practices

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Is rein tension associated with horse behaviour and mouth injuries in harness racing trotters? – Pilot study

Is rein tension associated with horse behaviour and mouth injuries in harness racing trotters? – Pilot study

Introducing the Mellorater—The Five Domains Model in a Welfare Monitoring App for Animal Guardians

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