working animal is an animal, usually domesticated, that is kept by humans and trained to perform tasks instead of being slaughtered to harvest animal...

other animal species for food (including meat, eggs, and dairy products), for materials (such as leather, fur, and wool), as pets and as working animals for...

are sometimes kept as exotic pets, and in some rarer occasions, as working animals. Although closely related to domesticated dogs, wolves do not show...

Commercial animal cloning is the cloning of animals for commercial purposes, including animal husbandry, medical research, competition camels and horses...

Service animals are working animals that have been trained to perform tasks that assist disabled people. Service animals may also be referred to as assistance...

heritage or physical characteristics lend itself to working irrespective of an individual animal's training or employment; and other times again it is...

destruction and conflicts with local people. Elephants are used as working animals in Asia. In the past, they were used in war; today, they are often...

Animal euthanasia (euthanasia from Greek: εὐθανασία; "good death") is the act of killing an animal humanely, most commonly with injectable drugs. Reasons...

companion animal, is an animal kept primarily for a person's company or entertainment rather than as a working animal, livestock, or a laboratory animal. Popular...

A pack animal, also known as a sumpter animal or beast of burden, is a working animal used to transport goods or materials by carrying them, usually on...

A working rat is any rat which is trained for specific tasks as a working animal. In many cases, working rats are domesticated brown rats. However, other...

some 5000–7000 years ago,: 2 : 3715  and has been used mainly as a working animal since that time. There are more than 40 million donkeys in the world...

came under domestication around 5,500 years ago in central Asia as a working animal. Among invertebrates, the silkworm and the western honey bee were domesticated...

Australian, and Indian English), is a large bovine, trained and used as a draft animal. Oxen are commonly castrated adult male cattle; castration inhibits testosterone...

Animal slaughter is the killing of animals, usually referring to killing domestic livestock. It is estimated that each year, 80 billion land animals are...

Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse, animal neglect or animal cruelty, is the infliction of suffering or harm by humans upon non-human animals, either...

dogs, working animals, and animal testing, including medical experimentation and the use of pharmaceuticals derived from or tested on animals). A person...

making the animal quieter, gentler and generally more suitable as an everyday working animal, or even as a pet (in the case of companion animals). The gerund...

animals, or to agricultural animals and working and other animals which humans depend on or interact with. Blessing of animals, or of the slaughtering process...

Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products. It includes day-to-day care...

Animal Aid is a British animal rights organisation, founded in 1977 by Jean Pink. The group campaigns peacefully against the consumption of animals as...

ponies of all breeds originally developed mainly from the need for a working animal that could fulfill specific local draft and transportation needs while...

of the prey animal, and then either intimidate it into leaving its burrow or hold the prey still so it can be killed or captured. Working terriers can...

and he is customarily accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox, his pet and working animal. The character originated in the oral tradition of North American loggers...

Animals in sport are a specific form of working animals. Many animals, at least in more commercial sports, are highly trained. Two of the most common...

a breed of small cattle native to Korea. It was formerly used as a working animal, but is now raised mainly for meat.: 193  It is one of four indigenous...

Animal welfare is the well-being of non-human animals. Formal standards of animal welfare vary between contexts, but are debated mostly by animal welfare...

Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all sentient animals have moral worth independent of their utility to humans, and that their...

foal, regardless of stature, is too young to be ridden or used as a working animal. Foals, whether they grow up to be horse or pony-sized, can be distinguished...

physical work done by humans House work, housework, or homemaking Working animal, an animal trained by humans to perform tasks Work (physics), the product...