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BS EN 17984-2:2025 Assistance dogs - Dog lifetime welfare, 2025
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- European foreword
- Introduction
- Table 1 — Five Provisions and Welfare Aims adapted from Mellor 2020
- 1 Scope
- 2 Normative references
- 3 Terms and definitions
- 4 Use of the Five Domains Model to support lifetime welfare [Go to Page]
- 4.1 General
- 4.2 Good nutrition (Minimize thirst and hunger and enable eating to be a pleasurable experience)
- 4.3 Good environment (Minimize discomfort and exposure and promote thermal, physical, and other comforts)
- 4.4 Good health (Minimize breathlessness, nausea, pain, and other aversive experiences and promote the pleasures of robustness, vigour, strength, and well-coordinated physical activity)
- 4.5 Behavioural interactions (Minimize threats and unpleasant restriction on all kinds of behavioural interactions and promote engagement in rewarding activities)
- 4.6 Positive mental experiences (Promote various forms of comfort, pleasure, interest, confidence, and a sense of control)
- 4.7 Mitigation for specific welfare risks for different types of assistance dogs
- 5 Breeding [Go to Page]
- 5.1 General
- 5.2 Breeding programme
- 5.3 Reproducing dogs: bitches and studs
- 5.4 Breeding selection
- 5.5 Medical tests
- 5.6 Whelping facilities
- 5.7 Prenatal status
- 5.8 Neonatal care
- 5.9 Daily routine
- 5.10 Socialization and habituation
- 6 Puppy raising programme and education
- 7 Dog welfare during travel and transportation
- 8 Dog qualification
- 9 Dogs removed or retired from an assistance dog programme [Go to Page]
- 9.1 General
- 9.2 Retirement of the assistance dog
- 9.3 Rehoming of dogs removed or retired from the programme
- 10 Euthanasia
- Annex A (informative) Recommendations for veterinarians completing health assessments
- Annex B (normative) Welfare of assistance dogs required to perform tasks related to balance/stability
- Annex C (informative) Hygiene plan for assistance dog facilities
- C.1 Introduction
- C.2 Risk assessment, hygiene management and accountability
- C.2.1 Risk assessment
- C.2.2 Hygiene management and accountability
- C.3 Hygiene requirements, cleaning, and disinfection
- C.3.1 Hygiene requirements for the location, building, rooms, equipment
- C.3.2 Cleaning, disinfection
- C.3.3 Cleaning and caring for hands
- C.3.4 Surfaces, floors, and objects
- C.3.5 Hygiene of laundry and clothing
- C.3.6 Handling of food
- C.3.7 Waste disposal
- C.3.8 Pest prophylaxis and control
- C.4 Handling medication
- C.5 Disposal of animal bodies
- Bibliography [Go to Page]
