Test your animal welfare assessment skills with AVMA quiz

Ensuring animal welfare is a human responsibility that includes consideration for all aspects of animal well-being, including proper housing, management, nutrition, disease prevention and treatment, responsible care, humane handling and, when necessary, humane euthanasia. Seems straightforward, right? In reality, animal welfare assessment may be much more complex and challenging to assess; real-life situations may present advantages in one area and disadvantages in another, and an assessment often depends on weighing which elements of welfare are most important to the animals. Even well-respected animal welfare experts may disagree. Take the quiz, which is based on a llama welfare assessment scenario from the 2015 intercollegiate Animal Welfare Judging Assessment contest, to get a sense of the contest scenarios and assess your own animal-welfare assessment skills.