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itek, J.; Candek-Potokar, M.; Djekic, I.; Getya, A.; Guerrero, L.; Ivanova, S.; Kusec, G.; Nakov, D.; et al. Attitudes and beliefs of eastern european consumers towards animal welfare. Animals 2020, 10, 17. [CrossRef] [PubMed] © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

itek, J.; Candek-Potokar, M.; Djekic, I.; Getya, A.; Guerrero, L.; Ivanova, S.; Kusec, G.; Nakov, D.; et al. Attitudes and beliefs of eastern european consumers towards animal welfare. Animals 2020, 10, 17. [CrossRef] [PubMed] © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

animals Article Behavior of Piglets in an Observation Arena before and after Surgical Castration with Local Anesthesia Regina Miller 1, *, Andrea Grott 1 , Dorian Patzkéwitsch 1 , Dorothea Döring 1 , Nora Abendschön 2 , Pauline Deffner 2 , Judith Reiser 3 , Mathias Ritzmann 2 , Anna M. Saller 3 , Paul Schmidt 4 , Steffanie Senf 2 , Julia Werner 3 , Christine Baumgartner 3 , Susanne Zöls 2 , Michael Erhard 1 and Shana Bergmann 1, * 1 Department of Veterinary Science, Chair of Animal Welfare, Ethology, Animal Hygiene and Animal Husbandry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, LMU Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany 2 Clinic for Swine, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany 3 Center for Preclinical Research, Technical University of Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany 4 Statistical Consulting for Science and Research, Große Seestr. 8, 13086 Berlin, Germany * Correspondence: r.miller@tierhyg.vetmed.uni-muenchen.de (R.M.); s.bergmann@lmu.de (S.B.) Simple Summary: Surgical castration of piglets is generally recognized as a painful procedure. Thus, for animal welfare reasons, the German Animal Welfare Act stipulates the use of effective anesthesia during castration. However, whether local anesthesia provides adequate analgesia has been an ongoing debate in Germany. In the present study, we compared the behavior of 178 piglets allocated to various test groups in an observation arena before any of the applied procedures, after administration of the local anesthetic, and 0, 2 and 24 h after surgical castration. The local anesthetic and the injection techniques were evaluated and optimized in three sequential study parts. Overall, the results revealed that when local anesthesia was used, piglets less frequently showed

animals Article Behavior of Piglets in an Observation Arena before and after Surgical Castration with Local Anesthesia Regina Miller 1, *, Andrea Grott 1 , Dorian Patzkéwitsch 1 , Dorothea Döring 1 , Nora Abendschön 2 , Pauline Deffner 2 , Judith Reiser 3 , Mathias Ritzmann 2 , Anna M. Saller 3 , Paul Schmidt 4 , Steffanie Senf 2 , Julia Werner 3 , Christine Baumgartner 3 , Susanne Zöls 2 , Michael Erhard 1 and Shana Bergmann 1, * 1 Department of Veterinary Science, Chair of Animal Welfare, Ethology, Animal Hygiene and Animal Husbandry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, LMU Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany 2 Clinic for Swine, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany 3 Center for Preclinical Research, Technical University of Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany 4 Statistical Consulting for Science and Research, Große Seestr. 8, 13086 Berlin, Germany * Correspondence: r.miller@tierhyg.vetmed.uni-muenchen.de (R.M.); s.bergmann@lmu.de (S.B.) Simple Summary: Surgical castration of piglets is generally recognized as a painful procedure. Thus, for animal welfare reasons, the German Animal Welfare Act stipulates the use of effective anesthesia during castration. However, whether local anesthesia provides adequate analgesia has been an ongoing debate in Germany. In the present study, we compared the behavior of 178 piglets allocated to various test groups in an observation arena before any of the applied procedures, after administration of the local anesthetic, and 0, 2 and 24 h after surgical castration. The local anesthetic and the injection techniques were evaluated and optimized in three sequential study parts. Overall, the results revealed that when local anesthesia was used, piglets less frequently showed

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