Even though animal welfare inspectors are the ones who practice the animal welfare legislation, their opinions about the legislation have hardly been studied, neither in Sweden nor any other country. The purpose of this report was to study what animal welfare inspectors think about the Swedish animal welfare legislation and whether they feel they have any possibility to influence the legislation. The animal welfare inspectors were given the opportunity to respond to an online survey in the spring of 2021. The survey included both closed questions, from which descriptive data were presented, and open questions, which were examined semi-qualitatively by first categorizing them based on animal species and then presenting descriptive data. The results showed that the inspectors did not find it easy to interpret the legislation and that there were rules that were perceived as complicated, especially regarding horses and dogs, and flexible rules. About 50% of the animal welfare inspectors thought there were rules that did not benefit the animals, especially regarding cattle and generally the welfare standard of the rules was too low. Only a few felt that they could influence the legislation, and this was mainly through referrals. The conclusion was that the answers of the animal welfare inspectors were so scattered that a specific problem area could not be identified, but it could be stated that the inspectors found the legislation difficult to interpret, to contain rules that do not benefit the animals and that they cannot influence it.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-196162 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Moen, Stina |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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