According to the Animal Welfare Act there is today prohibited to keep reptiles and amphibians in Norway, if one has not applied for an exemption from the FSA. At the same time a large number of illegal animals are kept ...

The border control is one of the most important measures to be taken in order to prevent contagious diseases causing significant financial losses to enter a country. As a country free of such diseases Norway practices a ...

The aim of this thesis was to highlight the different factors playing a part in the discussion of importation of stray dogs to Norway. Several aspects of the discussion have been mentioned. It has been proved that an ...

The IBR situation varies between the different European countries. Scandinavia, Austria and Switzerland are considered free of IBR, while Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia ...

Animal welfare legislation has been developed after the acceptance that animals are sentient beings and therefore should be treated according to this. All of the legislation today regarding animal welfare originates from ...

The Norwegian legislation regarding dog keeping is the LOV 2003-07-04 nr 74 (2003), issued by The Ministry of Justice and the Police. The legislation regulates safety aspects related to dogs; Securing of dogs; stray dogs; ...

Animal welfare was defined by Broom in 1986 and its use is widespread in science today, a scientific definition was important so that animal welfare could be said to be poor or good and to measure it in a scientific way. ...

Many countries in Europe have so called stray dogs,Hungary is one of them. Norway does not have a problem with stray dogs due to a well function society, strict animal welfare law and generally high standard of living, so ...