Issues relevant to Animal Welfare and Well-Being

At the Alternative Veterinary Medicine Centre (AVMC), we rightly or wrongly involve ourselves in many issues that impinge, in one way or another, upon the welfare or survival of our fellow creatures. Since we are holistic in our approach and work, we do not feel able to place comfortable boundaries around our interpretation of duty to animals. Furthermore, we do not restrict this interest simply to those domestic species, presented to us by our clients. The veterinary oath requires that we attend properly to animal welfare and, at the AVMC, we take this seriously and interpret it in a wide sense. We include in this website some of these issues, admittedly peripheral to our main work, which we feel to be very relevant to animal welfare. These pages will highlight some of the major issues facing animals and man today.

“We are part of the earth and it is part of us.
The perfumed flowers are our sisters; the deer,
the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers.
The rocky crests, the juices in the meadow, the body heat
of the pony and man - all belong to the same family.
………………………. If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from a great loneliness of spirit.
For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man.
All things are connected.”

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