The Problems with Well-being Terminology
FRANKLIN D. MCMILLAN AND JAMES W. YEATES Best Friends Animal Society, Kanab, Utah, USA; Cats Protection, Haywards Heath, UK 2.1 Introduction Suppose you were given the task of looking at one…
SMALL ANIMAL
Fostering Mental and Behavioral Wellness During Upbringing and Throughout Life
DANIEL Q. ESTEP AND SUZANNE HETTS Animal Behavior Associates, Sun City, Arizona, USA Historically, concern for the welfare of animals has focused on the relief of suffering through the prevention…
The Mental Health of Laboratory Animals
CARINE ELKHORAIBI, AMY ROBINSON-JUNKER, GINA ALVINO, AND LARRY CARBONE Institutional Animal Care and Use Program, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; Laboratory Animal Resource Center, University of California, San…
The Relationship Between Mental and Physical Health
MELISSA BAIN AND C.A. TONY BUFFINGTON Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, California, USA 4.1 Introduction Animals interact with their environments on a time constant…
Subjective Well-being, Happiness, and Personality in Animals
ALEXANDER WEISS AND LAUREN M. ROBINSON Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria 9.1 Background and…
Psychological Well-being in Zoo Animals
DAVID SHEPHERDSON AND KATHY CARLSTEAD Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, USA When it comes to maintaining mental health, or psychological well-being, zoo animal populations…
Suffering, Agency, and the Bayesian Mind
DANIEL M. WEARY University of British Columbia, Animal Welfare Program, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 12.1 Introduction Suffering is a central issue of animal welfare,…
What Is Distress? A Complex Answer to a Simple Question
FRANKLIN D. MCMILLAN Best Friends Animal Society, Kanab, Utah, USA Few concepts exhibit a wider disparity between their importance for well-being and their definitional clarity than distress. Despite its frequent…
Mental Health in Animals: A Veterinary Behaviorist’s View
DEBRA F. HORWITZ Veterinary Behavior Consultations, St. Louis, Missouri, USA 1.1 Introduction The concept of mental health in animals has not necessarily been an important variable in understanding the animals…
