S A YMPOSIUM

SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
Time
Monday, November 3
7:00 - 8:00 am
8:00 - 8:05 am
8:05 - 8:15 am
8:20 - 9:10 am
9:15 - 10:05 am
10:05 – 10:20 am
10:20 – 11:10 am
11:15 – 12:00 pm
12:00 – 1:15 pm
1:15 – 2:05 pm
2:10 – 3:00 pm
3:05 – 3:55 pm
3:55 – 4:10 pm
4:15 – 6:30 pm
6:45 – 8:45 pm
Events
Continental Breakfast
Welcome - Samuel Cartner; Humane Endings Program Chair
Introductory comments – Steven Leary; Chair, Panel on Euthanasia
Ethical aspects of killing humanely – Steven Niemi
Evaluating methods: Animal consciousness, pain, perception, stress and
distress – Craig Johnson
Break
Evaluating methods: Animal and human behavior and environment – Daniel
Weary
Legal considerations of pharmaceuticals for euthanasia – Neal Bataller
Luncheon
Methods overview: Non-inhalants – Sharon Gwaltney-Brant
Methods overview: Inhalants – Robert Meyer
Methods overview: Physical – Temple Grandin
Break
International approaches – Panel Presentation (Representatives from USDA,
FSIS, OLAW, AAALAC, CFIA, CCAC, Australia, EC, OIE, Japan, China)
Reception
Tuesday, November 4
7:00 – 8:00 am
8:00 – 8:30 am
Companion, Zoo and
Wild Animals
Home euthanasia
Kathleen Cooney
Continental Breakfast
Laboratory and Aquatic
Animals
Overview of humane
endings for fish
Roy Yanong
8:30 – 9:00 am
Human perspective of
compassion fatigue
Elizabeth Strand
Fish pain
Stephen Smith
9:00 – 9:30 am
Euthanasia challenges
from the animal shelter
perspective
Rebecca Rhoades
Welfare aspects in the
slaughter of farmed fish
Hugh Mitchell
Food Animals
Research update on
physical methods of
euthanasia for cattle
John Gilliam
Abstract: Mass
depopulation of dairy
cattle using centerchannel pneumatic
captive bolt with pithing
James Reynolds
Abstract: Mass
depopulation of beef
cattle using centerchannel pneumatic
captive bolt with pithing
Jan Shearer
Updates and emerging
issues in small ruminant
euthanasia
Paul Plummer
SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
9:30 – 10:00 am
10:00 – 10:30 am
10:30 – 11:00 am
11:00 – 11:30 am
11:30 – 12:00 pm
12:00 – 1:30 pm
1:30 – 2:00 pm
Engineering tools for
design and analysis of
gas flows/mixing in
Chambers
Lawrence Stikeleather
Euthanasia of
companion birds and
small mammals
Cheryl Greenacre
Abstract: Euthanasia of
companion ani als with
behavi ral r ble s
animal welfare, owner,
and veterinarian issues
Nienke Endenburg
Abstract: Intrarenal
injections in cats
Kathleen Cooney
Abstract: Humane
community
development—
examining the
effectiveness of
individual roaming dog
population management
schemes
Ian Robinson
Abstract: Animal-related
grief considerations
from an interfaith
perspective
Elizabeth Strand
Overview
an
wil li e challen es
non-traditional
responses for nontraditional species
David Miller
Fish depopulation
Kathy Hartman
Break and Posters
Abstract: What’s new in
fish euthanasia
Daniel Weary
Abstract: Humane
endings for aquatic
invertebrates…really?
Michael Murray
Assisting IACUCs with
humane endings for fish
Stephen Smith
Correlating physiological
and behavioral studies
of stressful events in
animals
Craig Johnson
Euthanasia of swine,
including alternatives to
blunt force trauma
Alex Ramirez
Mass depopulation of
swine using gradual
displacement CO2
Robert Meyer
Nitrous oxide for piglet
euthanasia
Jean-Loup Rault
Abstract: Searching for
the best practices
practical and human
endings for poultry on
the farm
Katherine Barger/Helen
Wojcinski
Abstract: Determination
of the effectiveness of
various euthanasia
technologies for onfarm use in chickens and
turkeys over an
appropriate size range
Benjamin Schlegel
Luncheon
Neonatal species
Kathleen PritchettCorning
Mass depopulation of
poultry using chamber
and whole-house
gassing
Bruce Webster
SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
2:00 – 2:30 pm
thanasia in
s
perceptions, planning
and public expectations
Thomas Meehan
A kind way to kill lab
rats and mice?
Debra Hickman
2:30 – 3:00 pm
The balancing act for
terrestrial wildlife, in the
field and in the
laboratory
Josh Dein
Are any gaseous killing
methods for rodents
humane? Carbon
dioxide versus argon
versus isoflurane
Huw Golledge
3:00 – 3:30 pm
3:30 – 4:00 pm
4:00 – 4:30 pm
4:30 – 5:00 pm
Wil li e a a e
c ntr l whose ox is
being gored?
Scott Hygnstrom
Humane endings for
cetaceans and fish in
field settings
Craig Harms
Abstract: Considerations
when culling large
mammals with firearms
Anthony DeNicola
Abstract: he alli at r
in stry advances in
animal welfare from egg
to slaughter
Javier Nevarez
Break and Posters
Cervical dislocation and
decapitation
Craig Johnson/Samuel
Cartner
Laboratory animal
depopulation under
"mostly manageable"
conditions
Michael Huerkamp
Laboratory animal
depopulation
dealing with the
unexpected
Terri Clark
Abstract: Use of
pharmaceutical grade
drugs/chemicals and
compounds
Neal Bataller
Abstract:
ane
n in s Verification of
mouse euthanasia by
ethanol injection
F. Claire Hankenson
Mass emergency
depopulation of poultry
using water-based foam
with or without inert gas
Eric Benson
Abstract: Low
atmospheric pressure
stunning in poultry
Jeff Buhr
Abstract: Responses of
neonatal goats (kids) to
different concentrations
of carbon dioxide gas
Suzanne Millman
Critical requirements for
the religious slaughter
of food animals
Joe Regenstein/Temple
Grandin
Abstract: Clarification of
current halal slaughter
standards
Kristin Pufpaff
Abstract: Participating in
a depopulation
operation - what about
the people?
Arnja Dale
Equine slaughter facility
design and humane
handling
Anne Allen
SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
5:00 – 5:30 pm
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Abstract: Comparison of
pentobarbital to
thoracic compression to
euthanize anesthetized
sparrows (Passer
domesticus) and
starlings (Sturnus
vulgaris)
Joanne Paul-Murphy
Abstract:
Comparison of Various
Methods of Euthanasia
of Birds
Cheryl Greenacre
reatin the A A
i elines Making
them scientifically and
practically robust and
dynamic
Steven Leary
Quantification of
sodium pentobarbital
residues from equine
mortality compost piles
Joshua Payne
Dinner and Entertainment
Kevin Fitzgerald
Wednesday, November 5
7:00 – 8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:10 am
Opening remarks – Wendy Underwood
8:15 – 9:10 am
Summary/Next steps discussion by Species Panel 1
9:15 – 10:10 am
Summary/Next steps discussion by Species Panel 2
10:10 – 10:30 am
Break
10:30 – 11:25 am
Summary/Next steps discussion by Species Panel 3
11:30 – 12:00 pm
Closing remarks – Samuel Cartner
Lunch on Your Own
1:00 – 4:00 pm
International Harmonization Workshop
(By Invitation)