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of these alternatives is that it is reversible and the behaviour of an animal sometimes not affects. This
could also be seen as a disadvantage, because sometimes behavioural changes are wanted to see.
Castration also influences the hormonal control of an animal, this will have physiological and ethological
consequences. Some of these physiological and ethological changes can have disadvantuous consequences.
An example of this is a castrated dog which becomes more obese. This will happen because of
the decrease of the suppression on the food intake, similar with the activity decline of the animal. When
owners are not familiar with this, this can have huge consequences on an animal. Next to this, there are a
lot of physiological changes which can have positive effect on the health of an animal. Examples of this,
is the reduction of the chance of mamma tumors and uterus cancer. Several peoples have an opinion about
the castration of animals. These actors see castration from different perspectives, and will have other attitudes
towards animals.
There are several aspects in the failure discussion, related to this investigation, which could be influence
the reliability of the results. Examples of these possible failures are the used assays, which could be the
wrong assays to evaluate the animal welfare. Although it is unlikely that other assays will lead to other
results.
From this investigation can be concluded that castration of animals is general accepted. An exception of
this, is the castration of male piglets. Castration of male piglets is judged as harmful for the animal welfare.
The results of the animal focussed assay and the human focussed assay are almost similar. From this
results can be concluded that there are no ethical problems. Thereby, the request for subsidy for further
investigation is not necessary.
Nevertheless, some recommendations are given, these are education related to the castration of male piglets,
development of a database regards to birth control of zoo animals, and the development of a test to
investigate the pain reception of male piglets.
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