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Pet Passion
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Animal Welfare
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
YOUR OBLIGATIONS
• As an animal owner, you have certain legal responsibilities towards your animals, and these obligations are set out in the Animal Welfare Act.
• In summary, the Act requires you to provide all your animals’ needs, whether physical, health or behavioural.
• It is an offence not to meet these needs “according to good practice and scientific knowledge”.
• You must not ill-treat any animal so that it experiences unnecessary or unreasonable pain or suffering.
• If you have a sick or injured animal you must treat it or get it treated. It is an offence not to alleviate its pain or distress.
• You mustn’t kill any animal, even one you own, in such a way that you cause it unreasonable or unnecessary pain or distress.
• Details of the standards required can be found in the Codes of Recommendations and Minimum Standards (CORMS).
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