1. 1st Special Nursery school of Patras
January 2016
A visit to a dog shelter
1st Special Nursery school of Patras

2. January 2016
A visit to an dog shelter where the knowledge gained from Polish meeting was implemented
TOPICS:
Students to get familiar with the animals
Implementation of the discussions we had at school about:
Animal Husbandry and Welfare
Keep children safe and see stress in animals
Animal Handling

3. January 2016
Students to get familiar with the animals: During the visit, students had the chance to get familiar with the dogs (there was not any other contact, just eye contact). Dogs were in cages or behind fences in a safe distance from children. Due to the disabilities of our children, staff had to be very careful protecting them from close contact.

4. January 2016

5. January 2016
Implementation of the discussions we had at school about: Animal Husbandry and Welfare
Talked again about Animal Ethics and the Five Freedoms:
From hunger and thirst
From pain, injury, disease
From fear and stress
From discomfort
To exhibit natural behaviour
and examined if those Ethics were implemented in the shelter (THEY DID) except the fifth, as animals in the cages are of limited natural behaviour

6. January 2016
Implementation of the discussions we had at school about: Keep children safe and see stress in animals Students were safe because they were in a distance from dogs and the dogs were behind fences.

7. January 2016 See stress examined by a simple chart:  DOG 1 DOG 2
happy 
calm
angry
fear
lazy
bark

8. January 2016
Some expressions of the dogs:

9. January 2016
Implementation of the discussions we had at school about: Animal Handling It was not possible for the students as the dogs were not trained to behave properly. We just asked the owner to show us how to handle a dog.