...does that mean for pets and animal care? A pet is something a person has to take care of. Most of the time an individual must clean, feed and wash the pet they have. This means that because of the bad economy, vet costs are increasing; pets are being neglected and are also being abandoned. In the United States, about 63% of American families own a pet. Even if money is tight, it is immoral to let animals suffer the negative consequences of a falling economy. Why are pets necessary for one’s life? First off pets can improve someone’s mood. When something is giving constant love, it is unlikely to put you in a bad mood and even if you’re in a bad mood already they’ll put you in a better one! Pets are also stress relievers and make you feel less lonely. According to an article about health benefits of pets, “A recent study found that men with AIDS were less likely to suffer from depression if they owned a pet.” A person who lives for something else is much happier than if they were just living for themselves! A few weeks ago I lost my cat because someone took him and left him on the side of a road 15 minutes away from where I lived. He got hit by a car and had broken his leg. The total bill to release my cat from the animal shelter, to get surgery and to buy medicine all came down to around $3000 dollars. The average person, with the economy situation we're in now, wouldn't have the money to help their cat and would result into putting their animal to sleep. A person like me...
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...Ethan Bruck Professor Smith EN-101-137 10 September 2013 Summary of “Animal Suffering: Learning Not to Care and Not to Know” “Animal Suffering: Learning Not to Care and Not to Know,” by William Crain addresses the issue humans have created in relation to raising children and killing animals for meat. The topic of killing animals, even for food, is always in debate. It becomes evident at a young age that children have a profound love for animals. In a specific 1999 study performed by Psychologist David Foulkes, it was found that kids under the age of seven tend to dream about animals, in one way or another. Most children understand that animals are their own beings and should be treated with respect, but what they don’t understand is that meat comes from many of the animals they care about so deeply. When kids find out about animals dying in order for meat to be produced, they immediately want to become a vegetarian. Due to their ages, these decisions are highly irrational, but still require parents to spend hours convincing their kids to abandon vegetarianism. Animals and people struggle to live in peace together, and young children dream of a harmless world. There is not enough research on the subject matter of how children react to choices made by adults with respect to animals and food. Going through life allows children to transform from a caring child to a detached adult. This transformation is crucial to understand the practices and lifestyles followed by the human...
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...CREATURE CARE CLINIC (A) BA2020 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT CHAPTER 1 PG. 26 LeAnne Baker Creature Care Animal Clinic has a few major flaws in how they are currently operating. Dr. Barr had a great vision but unfortunately her customers have slighty different needs. Dr. Barr needs to adjust her hours and set up an inventory management system and place one person in charge of inventory. This will help reduce expiration waste, duplicate items, out of stock issues and of course cost. She may need to hire a person or two to even out the work load. With a few minor adjustments I think that Animal Care Clinic can adjust to meet the customers needs. 1) Since Operations Management is the central core of every business, it is necessary to ensure all aspects are being properly managed. The role of operations management is to transform a company’s inputs into the finished goods or services. Inputs include human resources (such as workers and managers), facilities and processes (such as buildings and equipment), as well as materials, technology, and information. (Reid & Sanders 2010). Based on this Dr. Barr has multiple operation management problems in controlling, planning and organizing her business. Dr. Barr does not have appropriate staffing and hours to service what her customers need and when. She also has an inventory control issue or lack of inventory control all together. The office manager or assistant should be put in charge of inventory to control stock and...
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...Kelli Harper BA2020 September 2, 2015 1. Identify the operations management problems that Dr. Barr is having at the clinic? The Operations Management problems that Doctor Barr are facing are planning, organizing, staffing, and inventory control. For planning she needs to figure out what hours of operations works best for this location. Instead of being open late on Wednesday, she should be open all day Saturday. Organizing she needs to put more thought into the scheduling, instead of everyone in the office on Wednesday when there is no need have people scheduled to work later on Friday and all day Saturday. Staffing she needs to make adjustments to the scheduling less on Wednesday more on Friday and if she decides to open on Saturday schedule according to the business needs. There needs to be only one person allowed to order inventory, the current method has no systematic order which lead to the problems she is currently having. 2. The schedule Doctor Barr set up worked well at the clinic where she was a resident. What are some of the reasons why it might not be working here? Could be the location of the office. The hours of operations, the services offered. She could fix this by offering the late night service on Friday and all day services on Saturday. 3. Identify some of the reasons the clinic is having inventory problems? The main problem is that everyone is allowed to order inventory. The office asstiaant should be the one doing the inventory. And she should...
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...Internet and Multimedia effects on the USDA Animal Care Department Teany D. Gerkin Capella University Abstract This paper explorer the impact that broader internet and multimedia effect on the USDA Animal Care. As of now the USDA Animal Care department is working under limited capabilities, by expanding its internet functions the department would grant its customer better and faster service. Introduction If you wanted to start business that sold or bread pets you must be license by the United States government and renew that application every year. How much time, money and effort would you think it would take if that process was done only by mail. What if you wanted to find out how well a pet store did on its annual inspections prior purchase but you had to mail in an application and wait for it to return. This is how the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) works. If the USDA was to improve and centralize its internet access and retool its website it would increase profits and reduce overhead costs. In order to understand why the USDA needs to improve its web-based serviced one must understand the mission of the USDA and what it currently provides. USDA Animal Care background information The, USDA is governed by the Animal Warfare Act (AWA) and Horse Protections Act. There are 18 agencies assigned to be under the USDA. The animal care department falls under the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services...
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...Britney Sexton Operations Management 10/10/2015 Homework Assignment #1 Case Study: Creature Care Animal Clinic This case study is about Dr. Barr who is a veterinarian and opens her own clinic. She like most first time owners is having problems managing, organizing, controlling inventory, and staffing employees. She needs to take some time and find out the main goal that she set out to accomplish in the first place. She also needs to understand that not all clinics and the needs of the business are the same and just because one clinic (such as the clinic she shadowed in college) operates on certain hours the needs and availability at another location may need different requirement. The operation management problem that Dr. Barr is currently facing is planning, organizing, and controlling. Planning consist of knowing when to stay open late and when to close the clinic early. However, she nor her office staff would know this when first opening the clinic, the hours that she set for herself and the office staff should have been “tentative” at first, until she knew without certainty the business needs. Organizing, the current system that she has in place is not adapting to current setting of the clinic for example the overflow on Friday evenings. In any successful business you have to adapt and tailor your hours to what the public or the consumer needs. The Schedule isn’t working for Dr. Barr’s office because demand for her service offered is greater on Fridays...
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...Sentence: What Did These Animals Do? What would you do if you were suddenly taken out of your home, taken away from everything you’ve ever known and put in a prison? This is how animals in man-made habitats feel, everything they’ve ever known has been taken away from them and they are trapped in an enclosure. Although putting animals in man-made habitats can save them from extinction, animals shouldn’t live in them because they are taken out of their natural habitat, nature parks cannot mimic the wild, and modern zoos are comparable to a prison. Animals should not be put into zoos because in man-made habitats, animals don’t have to do any work to stay alive, they are fed on a regular schedule, receive medical care, and are protected from predators and hunters. While the goal may be to care for animals who won’t survive in the wild, it is contradictory to getting the animals back out into their natural habitats. Some animals may never get the chance to live freely and rely on themselves because they don’t know how to hunt for prey and protect themselves. Although keeping animals protected has proven to be beneficial and increase populations of endangered animals. It stands to reason that animals shouldn’t be taken out of their natural habitat because with time, they forget their natural instincts and no longer know how...
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...Christians to care for the environment. God shows man’s mandate given by God for creation in Genesis 2: 19-20. Since God gave the mandate to rule over the earth, man is also responsible for the environment. Global warming has affected the planet which is and has caused a climate change on earth. Natural disasters have increased due to the climate change. Christian’s responsibility for creation is to restore its landscape, agriculture, animal life, and human livelihood. Christians have a responsibility to preserve creation by recycling, proper disposal of hazardous waste, and create protection agencies for wild life. Christians have a responsibility to take care of creation, restore, preserve, and protect creation in all aspects which God has commanded man to do. God’s involvement in creation is understood for Christians in the Bible starting at Genesis 1. The Bible shows at the beginning God’s hand is expressed in all aspects of creation. The first day of creation God made space, time, earth, and light. On the second day, God created the atmosphere of the earth which then making it possible for life on earth. The third day, God made dry land and called it “earth.” God names the water “sea.” God also created the vegetation, plants that produced seeds for reproduction, fruit with seeds in the fruit, and trees. The fourth day, God created the Sun, moon, and stars. The purpose was to be able to tell signs, seasons, days and years. The fifth day, God created the Sea and flying animals on earth...
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...doing to help the animals, they also state what was wrong and how that problem was fixed. In this story there is a lowland gorilla who was caught by poachers, was taken away from his mother at a young age. In 1961, an animal trader sold him to Zoo Atlanta, he spent the next 27 years of his life alone in an indoor cage. Zoo personals named him Willie B. Willie’s keepers wanted him to be happy, so they “hung an old tire from a wall of his cage and put a television set in one corner”(25). They hoped these toys would keep Willie from...
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...Like the animals we see roaming freely in the African savanna, captive animals deserve the same fate. It is unlawful and against morals to keep them behind bars when both them and their ancestors from the past resided in the wild and had adapted and were best suited to their own environments. Many animals are taken from their natural habitats and climates, and even worse, their mothers, to just provide entertainment for humans. We can just watch nature channels or videos if we really want to see animals instead of letting them suffer. It is better to see animals when they are in their own natural habitats instead of seeing them in faulty enclosures. These animals are forced to live in climates and habitats that they are not well suited for...
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...Mensa Foundation For as long as I could remember, I have wanted to be a veterinarian. I have been responsible for the care and feeding pets ever since the first grade. In middle school, I volunteered at the local Vet, whenever my animals get hurt I look up what it could be and try to help them get better and normal it helps but, depends on how big is the problem I can handle. To reach my goals, I realize that I must pursue an eight-year college education which will begin with Fall 2016 semester. I am very excited about my further and feel that with the opportunity your scholarship will provide, I can help many animals. My love for animals has been encouraged by my family. My grandparents have a farm and I love helping or being around animals...
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...Rhetoric- Comm 430 March 11, 2015 Lion Embrace: A Critique of Anthropomorphic Animals “We humans seem to have admired Lions, and feared them and worshipped their nobility and strength for thousands of years” (Joubert, 2012, pg. 1). Nearly every human being has some sort of attraction to animals; whether it is their pet, a stuffed animal, or a fictional character. This human attraction to animals is common and natural, because it gives humans the satisfaction of interacting with another species in a playful manner. Kevin Richardson, otherwise known as “The Lion Whisperer” takes this human attraction to an entirely new level. Richardson is famous for rescuing and raising twenty-seven adopted lions from a game reserve in Johannesburg, South Africa. These lions were soon to be killed by hunters before Kevin Richardson stepped in and relocated these lions to his own land. He treats his felines as if they were equals, often wrestling, playing, and embracing them as if they were humans or as if he was a lion. For viewers these actions might be initially seen as incredible, witnessing a human interact so passionately with the King of the Jungle. Richardson states he is able to do this because he treats each individual lion differently, speaking to them, caressing them and, above all, treating them with respect (Roberts, 2007, p. 1). This relationship is a form of anthropomorphism, or giving animals human characteristics. The story of Kevin Richardson relates to many other cat...
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...careless act by humans left Oogy fighting for his life. Unfortunately, this is only one of the many cases worldwide where animal cruelty has materialized. Providing basic necessities of life, shelter, food, water and medical care are the requirements for the survival of any living thing. Are animal’s not living things? Hundreds of animals are deprived of these basic needs every day. The Animal Legal Defense Fund in the USA reports that over 30% of cases they tracked (in the last 10 years) involve animal neglect. In order for an animal to be neglected, insufficient care has to happen over time. Neglect can occur in numerous forms, such as lack of food and water, not grooming resulting in raveled hair and sores on the skin, inadequate physical activity and many others. Equivalently, when owners break their commitment for their pet, this is abandonment and it is illegal. Nationwide in America, 6-8 million dogs end up in shelters now more than ever. These innocent, loving companions are rejected into the streets to fend on their own because of the no pet policy and house foreclosures. People for the Ethical and Treatment of Animals (aka as PETA) report that “over 100 million animals every year suffer and die” in cruel laboratories. Before new products such as make-up, food, prescription drugs or household cleaners, can be introduced to consumers animals are used as testers. Mice, rats, rabbits, dogs and birds are intentionally poisoned, blinded, force fed chemicals and made...
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...wild animal were in the process of becoming endangered or extinct the most logical solution would be to capture that particular animal and rehabilitate the species. Of course a scenario such as this has its complications, for example, animals are not properly accommodated for to suit their basic and daily physical/mental needs. However the expectation with detaining a wild animal and holding it captive for rehabilitation should be minimal and that is where the flaw is found with zoos and SeaWorld’s across the country. Marine and land mammals at both facilities are stripped of their wild instincts, and their natural progression is stunted because of government and business execs setting the standards as to when the creature is to receive health treatment, cognitive care, or even primitive dietary requirements. Any living being, especially marine and land mammals shouldn’t be considered a financial burden when it comes to their well-being. Facilities such as zoos and SeaWorld are accountable for holding many animals and marine mammals with the so-called “intentions” of strengthening, learning, and teaching about the species they hold and, in some cases, even advertise their plans of rehabilitating those creatures that may be facing a permanent disappearance. Sadly, in actuality they are creating mental breakdowns and depression among animals and unfortunately responsible for animals slow physical decay within their own enclosures. What needs to be realized is that animals and marine...
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...that are performed on the animals are not only cruel and inhumane, but they are also ineffective. Most people believe that animal testing is almost always accurate, which is why so many people are okay with it; however, that is not true. Several animals do not have the same diseases as people do and instead, the disease is artificially induced in the animals to mimic the diseases humans have. Time, money, and the lives of animals are being wasted. The use of animal testing poses a threat to the health and safety of humans all around the world. When scientists are testing on the animals they are comparing the similarities and differences animals have compared to humans. Mice are usually used for complex research because they almost have the same functions as humans do. Sometimes the animals that are used, will not have the same results and reactions as humans will towards the product. Animals are not exactly like humans and will react differently to the products. Some animals might react and function the same way as humans such as breathing, digestion, movement, seeing, and hearing, but not all the...
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