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Challenges in Sheltering Seized Animals to Hoarders from a One Welfare Perspective
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: Received: 18 July 2023 / Approved: 18 July 2023 / Online: 25 July 2023 (13:14:27 CEST)
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Fossati, P. Challenges in Sheltering Seized Animals from Hoarders from a One Welfare Perspective. Animals 2023, 13, 3303. Fossati, P. Challenges in Sheltering Seized Animals from Hoarders from a One Welfare Perspective. Animals 2023, 13, 3303.
Abstract
Animal hoarding is a complex issue that, when discovered, frequently necessitates opening shelter doors to many animals. This is due to hoarders' inability to provide even the most basic welfare standards for their animals, resulting in poor welfare conditions that frequently border on mis-treatment. These people are frequently unaware of their failure to care for their animals, as well as of the harm that they cause to people around them and the environment. They usually don't care for themselves either. The majority of hoarders have difficult histories, and they all need help get-ting back on track. Meanwhile, when the agencies discover the status quo, the animals are usually seized and taken to shelters, where they face a variety of welfare consequences, beginning with confinement in an unknown environment that is associated with additional risks (e.g., infectious diseases, behavioral deterioration, and distress). Furthermore, the targeted shelters are frequently overcrowded and cannot adequately accommodate the large number of animals found in hoard-ers' environments. The One Welfare approach, which is increasingly being used alongside One Health to work at the intersection of human and animal health and welfare, could be adopted to benefit animals while also addressing the poor states of humans.
This concept’s depiction of the interconnections between animal welfare, human wellbeing, and the environment can fit with all the components of the animal hoarding phenomenon, including the peculiarities of the hoarding environment as well as those of shelters where animals are often moved. The purpose of this paper is to offer insights into how the One Welfare concept may be critical in tackling all of the interests concerned in these cases and offering solutions.
Keywords
One welfare; animal welfare; animal shelter; animal hoarding; hoarders; companion animals; seized animals; challenges.
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Animal Science, Veterinary Science and Zoology
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