Published in 2025
Review summarizing current knowledge on farming practices that affect calf welfare, from birth to departure from the farm, highlighting the importance of colostrum, feed, housing and pain management.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Published in 2025
Meta-analysis comparing the effects on laying hens of beak trimming with a hot blade or infrared radiation. The infrared method would appear to be a less invasive option, but further studies are needed to confirm this finding.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Poultry
Published in 2025
Review of 97 European studies showing that donkeys are mostly kept in extensive or semi-intensive systems, often with access to the outdoors. Nevertheless, recurrent management, nutritional and health problems (obesity, dental disorders, hoof problems) still compromise their welfare, stressing the need for specific care guidelines based on scientific data.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Equines
Published in 2025
Study highlighting the fact that the social isolation of domestic stallions, a common on-farm practice, leads to stress, stereotypies and reproductive disorders. It recommends that they be provided with greater social contact and conditions approaching their natural way of life, to improve their welfare and fertility.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Equines
Published in 2025
Nation-wide study in France by the SPA and the Affinity Foundation on the abandonment and adoption of cats and dogs in 2024.
Document Types: Technical review
Published in 2025
Government answer to a question from a Deputy on the proliferation of stray cats in France. It summarises existing measures and its support for local pilot schemes supported by a one-off €3 million funding pot in 2024, but, for the time being, envisages no further roll-out due to lack of funding.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Felines
Published in 2025
Survey of British small mammal owners showing that the main obstacle to pet welfare is the lack of opportunity to provide suitable housing, while owners generally show themselves both capable of and motivated in caring for their pets. Changes in feeding behavior emerged as the most commonly-used practical indicator of health and welfare problems. Improved access to suitable housing and use of these indicators could open up avenues for improvement of welfare.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Mammals
Published in 2025
Study from the Dog Aging Project establishing baseline behavioral measures for over 47,000 dogs in order to use changes in behavior as health and welfare indicators. It shows that the year of registration (especially after Covid), as well as factors such as breed, age and sex, significantly influence scores for the four composite behavior domains, Fear, Attention/Exitability, Aggression and Trainability.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Canine
Published in 2025
Review examining the management of feline overpopulation, which requires a holistic and locally specific approach covering domestic cats, cats in shelters and those living in the wild, while taking environmental factors, feline demographic processes and human community dynamics into account.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Felines
Published in 2025
Survey comparing the attitudes of veterinarians and animal welfare specialists in the UK and Japan through the lens of the five freedoms. It highlights cultural differences, particularly in terms of the importance attached to the expression of natural behaviors and the management of pets.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: All animals
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