Béatrice Doizé

TL;DR: The study showed that veterinarians interviewed assessed convenience euthanasia based mainly on their subjective evaluation of the owner- animal bond, as most owner-animal bonds stem from an anthropocentric point of view.

TL;DR: Isolated TNR events have a low and temporary impact on colony size in Quebec's rural cat colonies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the process of public health policy development in Quebec agriculture, with a focus on the case of pork production and the role of food animal veterinarians in policy making, and argue that a tendency to employ strictly techno-scientific risk analyses of antimicrobial use ignores the fundamental social, economic and political realities of key stakeholders and so limits the applicability of policy recommendations developed by government advisory groups.

TL;DR: A qualitative study on the subject based on interviews with 14 veterinarians was undertaken, finding that veterinarians made their own interests and those of the owners a priority when considering the consequences of their decision to perform or refuse convenience euthanasia.