WSAVA Companion Animal Welfare SymposiumSUPPORTED BY RALSTON PURINA

WSAVA 23 rd Congress, Sheraton Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday 6 th October, 1998

Gomez Lozada room, Sheraton Hotel, Buenos Aires.

ANIMAL WELFARE IN DISASTER SITUATIONS

The formal presentations will consist of six presentations of approximately 40 mins each in the morning. The afternoon session will consist of moderated discussion and free communications on

companion animal welfare issues.

Formal Programme Chairman: Dr Roger Clarke

08.00 Veterinary Response to Disaster and Foreign Animal Disease Outbreak in the United States.Col. Lynn Anderson, DVM, US Army.Col. Anderson is the United States Army Veterinary Command Coordinator of Emergency Response (VCEP) and oversees the activities of the US Army Veterinary Specialty Response Teams (VSRT's) in the preparation for and deployment in the face of disaster or outbreak of Foreign Animal Disease. His presentation will include the whole National Disaster Response as it relates to Animal Welfare and Veterinary Medicine in the United States.

08.40 Summation of the real-life veterinary experiences of animal welfare management during Hurricane Andrew. Larry Dee, DVM Dr Larry Dee, AAHA representative to WSAVA, and a veterinary practitioner from Florida, will speak on the welfare management of companion animals following the recent hurricane Andrew in the gulf. The outcomes of this disaster are very important to determine what are suitable protocols for the management of similar disasters.

09.20Follow-up on the outcomes of the animal welfare rescue and re-homing operations following the Kobe earthquake in Japan.Professor Mitsuaki Ohta, PhDProf. Ohta, from the Osaka Prefectural University will speak on the follow-up data from animal welfare rescue operations following the Kobe Earthquake. There has been a large written report published on this but it is in Japanese and is therefore inaccessible to most English speaking veterinarians. Professor Ohta was involved in the welfare and rescue operations surrounding the earthquake and was an active contributor to the report. Of particular interest is the fact that the Japanese Welfare authorities chose not to destroy any but the most seriously injured companion animals and, according to their report, managed to re-home nearly 80% of stray animals following the mop-up operations.

10.0 to 10.30 Coffee break

10.30 to 11.10Use and Training of Search and Rescue Dogs in Natural DisastersCaroline HebardCaroline Hebard is an American who has been involved in search and rescue for 25 years. She has been involved in search and rescue operations in Afghanistan, Mexico, Kobe, etc. She has trained teams in Europe, Australia, and Iceland and is fluent in six languages. She was a member of the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Team and an Instructor for the FEMA Canine Search Specialist

Training Courses. Caroline recently co-authored an autobiography with Hank Whittemore titled "So That Others May Live."

11.10 to 11.50The Development of Contingency Plans to Cope with Animal Welfare Issues During Times of Natural Disaster, by Florida State, County and the Florida Veterinary Medical AssociationLarry Dee, DVMThe animal welfare operation following hurricane Andrew in Florida found many people unprepared. Dr Dee, a veterinary practitioner from Florida who participated in the welfare operations, will report on contingency plans developed by the State of Florida and the Florida VMA to cope with future disasters; these may well serve as a model for other areas.

11.50 to 12.10The Relationship between Animal Abuse and Child Abuse - a Human Disaster!Professor Leopoldo EstolProf. Leopoldo Estol is an expert on the animal welfare situation in South America. He is foundation Professor of the Chair in Animal Welfare at the Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, and the former Chairman of the Sud-American Branch of the Animal Welfare, Well-being and Ethology Committee at the World Veterinary Association. Prof Estol has been actively involved in animal welfare for more than 10 years. Professor Estol is currently developing an Animal Welfare Programme for the National Service of Animal Health. Prof. Estol currently teaches Animal Welfare, Ethology and Ethics to undergraduates and shares information on these issues with his peers and the general public.

12.30 to 14.00 Lunch break

Afternoon sessions

14.00 to 15.00Moderated discussions of outcomes of morning seminar

15.00 to 16.00Free communications 10 mins each

16.00 to 16.30 Coffee break

16.30 to 17.00 Discussions continue if demand is high enough.

Registration is free of charge to members of WSAVA member associations, and registration will be available on-site..

However the organisers would appreciate prior registration if possible.

THE WSAVA IS GRATEFUL TO RALSTON PURINA FOR ITS VERY GENEROUS SPONSORSHIP OF THIS INAUGURAL WSAVA ANIMAL

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WSAVA Companion Animal Welfare SymposiumSUPPORTED BY RALSTON PURINA

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