Dr Sean Wensley is an award-winning UK veterinarian and recent President of the British Veterinary Association (BVA). He chairs the Animal Welfare Working Group of the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE), which represents veterinary organisations from 40 European countries. Dr Wensley has contributed to animal welfare and conservation projects around the world and in 2017 received the inaugural World Veterinary Association (WVA) Global Animal Welfare Award for Europe. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and is Senior Veterinary Surgeon for Communication and Education at the national UK veterinary charity, the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA). His media appearances include BBC Radio 4 Today, BBC Breakfast, Good Morning Britain and The Big Questions.
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Sean Wensley tells us how to compassionately connect with all animals.
Veterinarians are incredibly important "middle people" between people who
live with or use a wide variety of nonhuman animals (animals) and the
animals themselves.1 In his new book Through A Vet’s Eyes: How We Can All
Choose a Better Life for Animals, Sean Wensley, an award-winning
veterinarian who drove the development of BVA’s first Animal Welfare
Strategy, explains how we must treat all animals with respect and
compassion, and the role of veterinarians in using animal welfare science
and ethics to do this. I'm pleased Sean could answer a few questions about
his landmark book.
Marc Bekoff: Why did you write Through A Vet’s Eyes?
Sean Wensley: I wanted to relay a number of today’s
persisting animal welfare problems to a non-specialist audience through the
lens of my own personal experience, to help make those problems more
accessible and understandable. I then wanted to underpin these experiences
with animal welfare science (the science of understanding how animals
perceive the world, and what they need and want from their perspectives) and
veterinary animal welfare policy, and embed the veterinary memoir elements
in the context of the natural world. This helped me discuss animal welfare
alongside other pressing issues, such as climate change, biodiversity loss,
and antimicrobial resistance, and to promote the importance of
interdisciplinary working as embodied by the One Health and One Welfare
approaches.
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