JPWO2016024589A1 - Method for reducing animal transportation stress and animal transportation method using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

Acupuncture, heel, massage, massage, pressure stimulation on one or more parts of the animal's body surface such as meridians before the start of transport of mammals excluding humans that are to be transported by transport means A method for reducing transportation stress of animals characterized by performing physical stimulation such as thermal stimulation, cold stimulation, magnetic stimulation, electrical stimulation, low-frequency stimulation and ultrasonic stimulation, and the above-mentioned animals A method for transporting animals characterized by applying a method for reducing transport stress in the animal.

Description

  The present invention relates to a method for reducing transport stress of an animal, which is a mammal excluding human beings, which is a target for transport by transport means, and a transport method of an animal using the same.

  Although animals are transported and moved by various means of transportation on a daily basis, there are many animals that exhibit an excessive stress reaction such as “motion sickness” as in humans. For example, it is known that dogs, which are companion animals, exhibit symptoms similar to “motion sickness” such as vomiting and loss of energy when transported by automobile or the like. In addition, in the case of pigs and the like that are livestock animals, in addition to the problem of deterioration in physical condition due to transportation stress, the meat quality may be reduced (curled meat) that causes price reduction, which may lead to economic problems. Furthermore, it is known that when a racehorse is transported by horse carriage or aircraft, so-called “transport fever” may occur, which exhibits symptoms such as fever and respiratory disease. In addition to the economic loss caused by changing the training schedule and postponing the start of transportation, there are problems such as increased risk of death due to the transition to pneumonia and pleurisy.

  In recent years, when animals are used for the benefit of human beings, there has been a growing interest in animal welfare in order to avoid and eliminate the pain felt by animals as much as possible. Various efforts have been made to eliminate as much as possible. In the European Union, Council Directives Nos. 91/628 / EEC and 95/29 / EC on the protection of animals in transit specify the conditions to be observed when transporting animals.

  Moreover, the stress improving agent for improving the stress of poultry and livestock is proposed. For example, Patent Document 1 discloses an allergy and / or clove, or eugenol and / or β-caryophyllene as an active ingredient, and a poultry / livestock stress-improving agent characterized by containing it as an active ingredient. A feed for ameliorating the kind of stress is disclosed.

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  However, the administration of drugs including herbs may cause stress for animals, and in the case of livestock such as pigs and beef cattle, administration may be regulated or restricted depending on the type of drug. is there.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and can be widely applied to mammals other than humans, which are to be transported by means of transportation, and is highly safe and has little pain and side effects to animals when applied. It is an object to provide a method for reducing stress and a method for transporting animals using the same.

A first aspect of the present invention that meets the above-described object is a method for reducing the transport stress of an animal that is a mammal other than a human being to be transported by a transport means, and before the start of transport of the animal, The above-mentioned problems are solved by providing a method for reducing transport stress of an animal, characterized in that physical stimulation is performed on one or a plurality of predetermined sites on the body surface of the animal.
In the present invention, in order to “relieve” the transportation stress, the occurrence of the transportation stress is suppressed by performing physical stimulation to one or more predetermined parts of the animal body surface before the occurrence of the transportation stress. To include.

  In the method for reducing transportation stress of an animal according to the first aspect of the present invention, the specific part of the animal body surface may be a meridian.

  In the method for reducing transport stress of an animal according to the first aspect of the present invention, it is preferable that the animal has an auricle and the meridian is an apex.

  In the method for reducing transport stress of an animal according to the first aspect of the present invention, the physical stimulus is acupuncture, acupuncture, Anma, massage, pressure stimulus, warm stimulus, cold stimulus, magnetic stimulus, electrical stimulus, low frequency stimulus. And one or more of ultrasonic stimulation.

  In the method for reducing animal transport stress according to the first aspect of the present invention, the physical stimulus is preferably a wrinkle using a circular skin needle.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an animal transportation method characterized by applying the method for reducing transportation stress of an animal according to the first aspect of the present invention to an animal to be transported. The present invention solves the above problems.

  In the animal transportation method according to the second aspect of the present invention, it is preferable that physical stimulation to a predetermined one or a plurality of sites on the body surface of the animal is performed a predetermined time before the start of transportation.

  In the method for transporting animals according to the second aspect of the present invention, physical stimulation to one or more predetermined sites on the body surface of the animal may be continued during transport.

  The method for reducing animal transportation stress and animal transportation method of the present invention does not require the administration of a drug, and thus can be applied to a wide range of animals including meat for livestock and the like. . In addition, the animal transport stress reducing method and animal transport method of the present invention are less likely to cause excessive pain and stress to the animal to be applied, and can reduce the burden on the practitioner.

It is a photograph which shows the state which inserted the circular fold into the eartip of a dog.

[First Embodiment]
The method for reducing the transportation stress of an animal according to the first embodiment of the present invention (hereinafter sometimes abbreviated as “a method of reducing the transportation stress”) is described below. By carrying out physical stimulation to one or a plurality of predetermined sites, transport stress caused by transport of animals by transport means and various physical symptoms associated therewith are reduced.

  The animal to which the method for reducing transport stress is applied is not particularly limited as long as it is a mammal excluding humans that is to be transported by transport means. Examples of animals include companion animals (pets and nursing animals), livestock, racehorses, laboratory animals, display animals, etc., and specific examples thereof include dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits, squirrels, mice, rats, guinea pigs. Hamsters, cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, goats and the like.

  Types of physical stimuli include any physical stimulus that does not cause excessive pain or discomfort to the animal, but physical stimuli that are effective in reducing transport stress include acupuncture, acupuncture, Anma, massage, pressure stimulation, Warm stimulation, cold stimulation, magnetic stimulation, electrical stimulation, low frequency stimulation, and ultrasonic stimulation are preferably used, and acupuncture, acupuncture, anma, and massage are particularly preferable in that large instruments are not required and treatment is easy. . Any two or more of these may be used in combination as physical stimuli.

  When physical stimulation is performed using the heel, the heel, the heel, the three-ridge heel, the contact heel, the pediatric heel, the round skin heel, the intradermal heel (because the heel is placed in the skin, animals for meat ), Granule, bald pod (when used in combination with thermal stimulation with cocoons), electric cocoon (when used in combination with electrical stimulation), etc. Although it can be used, a circular skin wrinkle in which the needle body protrudes from the adhesive surface of a circular adhesive tape that can be attached to the skin is particularly preferably used. This is because the treatment is easy and the risk of causing excessive pain and stress on the animal is low.

  The site where physical stimulation is performed depends on the type of physical stimulation used, but is not particularly limited as long as transport stress can be reduced. When using acupuncture, heel or anma, or massage as a physical stimulus, the site for physical stimulation is preferably a meridian (acupuncture point). The meridian for performing physical stimulation is not particularly limited as long as it has the effect of reducing transport stress. However, in the case of an animal having the above-mentioned intradermal fistula and having an auricle, the apical portion along the back of the left and right auricles is used. An ear apex that is on a blood vessel is particularly preferred. In addition to being highly effective in reducing transport stress, it is a site that is difficult for the mouth and forelimbs to reach, and is therefore preferable in that it is less likely to be removed by the animal, or accidentally eaten or swallowed.

  For reference, FIG. 1 shows a state where a circular fold is inserted into the eartip of a dog. For example, when a dog is put on a car or the like at a hospital, leisure, etc., the dog's motion sickness (for example, vomiting, nausea, etc.) is inserted by inserting a circular fold into the ear tip of the dog as shown in FIG. , Drooling, loss of energy) can be reduced.

  Transportation stresses that are subject to relief include any stress that results in some physical modulation due to transportation, regardless of the symptoms. The strength of transport stress can be evaluated using, for example, an index of a physiological response to acute stress. As an index of the physiological response, an indicator that has few individual differences, is not easily influenced by other physiological responses, and responds quickly according to the intensity of stress is preferably used. Examples of the physiological reaction index preferably used for the evaluation of stress intensity include blood cortisol concentration, blood adrenaline concentration, blood noradrenaline concentration, and blood dopamine concentration.

[Second Embodiment]
An animal transportation method according to the second embodiment of the present invention (hereinafter sometimes referred to as “transportation method”) is applied to an animal to be transported according to the first embodiment of the present invention. By applying a method for reducing animal transport stress, the animal is transported while reducing the transport stress.

  The animals to which the transportation method is applied are the same as those to which the above-described transportation stress reduction method is applied, and thus the description thereof is omitted. In addition, examples of transportation means include automobiles, railroads, ships, airplanes, and the like, but there are no particular restrictions on transportation means, and this embodiment is generally used for any transportation means used for animal transportation. Such a transportation method can be applied.

  The physical stimulation to the animal is preferably performed a predetermined time before the start of transportation. The timing at which physical stimulation is started before the start of transport depends on the type of animal, the type of transport means, the internal environment of the transport means, etc. It is preferred to initiate stimulation. Further, physical stimulation may be continuously performed during transportation. When physical stimulation is performed using the above-described circular skin fold, the physical stimulation can be continuously performed simply by transporting the circular skin fold while being inserted.

Next, examples carried out for confirming the effects of the present invention will be described.
Example 1: Examination of the effect of round skin piercing on transport stress in calves In order to see the effect of transport stress in calves, pups on the 4th to 10th day, 11th to 14th day, 15th to 21st day after birth About the cow, the change of the blood cortisol density | concentration around transport experiment (transport means: truck transport, transport time: about 60 minutes, distance: about 40 km) was measured. The results are shown in Table 1. The unit of blood cortisol concentration is (ng / mL). In the table, the subscripts a and b indicate significance in P <0.05 between a and b in the t test.

  As is clear from Table 1, the blood cortisol concentration significantly increased after transportation at any age, and it can be seen that transportation stresses the calf. The blood cortisol concentration was found to increase significantly particularly in the group of 4-10 days of age. This result also confirmed that blood cortisol concentration is useful as an indicator of transport stress.

  Calves 11 to 14 days after birth are divided into a control group and an acupuncture treatment group, and for the latter, about 60 minutes before the start of the transportation experiment, a cypress skin (Peinex (registered trademark), A heel length of 1.8 mm) was inserted into the left and right ear tips and a transportation experiment was conducted. After the transportation experiment, blood cortisol concentration, blood adrenaline concentration, blood noradrenaline concentration and blood dopamine concentration were measured in the control group and the acupuncture group. The results are shown in Table 2. The units of blood cortisol concentration, blood adrenaline concentration, blood noradrenaline concentration, and blood dopamine concentration are (ng / mL). In the table, the subscripts a and b indicate significance in P <0.05 between a and b in the t test.

  From the results of Table 2, it was confirmed that in the acupuncture treatment group, the blood noradrenaline concentration and the blood dopamine concentration were significantly decreased as compared with the control group. From these results, it was suggested that the insertion of a circular fold into a calf has an inhibitory effect on the secretion of noradrenaline and dopamine that works immediately when stress is detected, and suppresses the stress response in the upper center.

  Various embodiments and modifications can be made to the present invention without departing from the broad spirit and scope of the present invention. The above-described embodiments are for explaining the present invention and do not limit the scope of the present invention. In other words, the scope of the present invention is shown not by the embodiments but by the claims. Various modifications within the scope of the claims and within the scope of the equivalent invention are considered to be within the scope of the present invention.

  The present invention is based on Japanese Patent Application No. 2014-164673 filed on August 13, 2014. The specification, claims, and entire drawing of Japanese Patent Application No. 2014-164673 are incorporated herein by reference.

  According to the present invention, while considering animal welfare, a simple method with less burden on the practitioner and the animal to be applied can be used for companion animals (pets and care animals), livestock, racehorses, laboratory animals, etc. For all animals, stress during transportation can be reduced, and in the case of livestock animals, quality deterioration due to stress during transportation can be prevented. The present invention can be widely applied to animal transportation in fields such as the transportation industry, livestock industry, and pet industry.

Claims (8)

  A method for reducing the transport stress of an animal that is a mammal other than a human, which is a target of transport by a transport means, to a predetermined one or a plurality of sites on the body surface of the animal before the start of transport of the animal A method of reducing transport stress in an animal characterized by performing physical stimulation.   The method for reducing transport stress of an animal according to claim 1, wherein the specific part of the body surface of the animal is a meridian.   The method according to claim 2, wherein the animal has an auricle and the meridian is an apex.   The physical stimulus is any one or more of acupuncture, acupuncture, Anma, massage, pressure stimulus, warm stimulus, cold stimulus, magnetic stimulus, electrical stimulus, low frequency stimulus and ultrasonic stimulus. The method of reducing the transportation stress of the animal of any one of 1-3.   5. The method for reducing transport stress of an animal according to claim 4, wherein the physical stimulus is a wrinkle using a circular needle.   6. A method for transporting animals, comprising applying the method for reducing transport stress of animals according to any one of claims 1 to 5 to animals to be transported.   The animal transportation method according to claim 6, wherein physical stimulation to one or more predetermined parts of the animal body surface is performed a predetermined time before the start of transportation.   The animal transportation method according to claim 6 or 7, wherein physical stimulation to predetermined one or a plurality of parts on the surface of the animal body is continuously performed during transportation.

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