Tracking the “State of the Animals”: Challenges and Opportunities in Assessing Change

Authors

Randall Lockwood, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2005

Abstract

In this chapter we:

1. Review some of the measures that have been used in the past to attempt to assess the state of the animals and the extent to which we can continue to apply these measures to track future changes.
2. Review some of the emerging tools and developing technologies that can improve our tracking of the state of the animals and provide some quantitative measures of our progress.
3. Explore some examples of general measures of human interaction with animals that might prove useful in predicting and tracking changes in how they are treated.

Recommended Citation

Lockwood, R. (2005). Tracking the “state of the animals”: Challenges and opportunities in assessing change. In D.J. Salem & A.N. Rowan (Eds.), The state of the animals III: 2005 (pp. 1-14). Washington, DC: Humane Society Press.