Animals in Translation is a podcast brought to you by hosts from across the globe who talk with experts about their animal welfare work. The goal? To deconstruct animal issues into palatable pieces for listeners wanting to dig deeper into international animal welfare, ethics, or policy. Tune in monthly for new episodes.
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Kerri and Sophie delve into the overlooked issue of sheep fatigue during transport with special guest Katia Colitti. Katia is a lawyer and writer whose work has been published in Animal Welfare (Cambridge University Press), Global Journal of Animal Law, and European Competition Journal. She grew up in Ukraine, spent over a decade in the U.S., and, since 2012, is based in Belgium. Katia holds an MSc in international animal welfare, ethics, and law, a JD, an MA in economics for competition law, and a BA in Political Science. She writes on Substack about cat health and welfare, the human-cat relationship, and cat loss grief.
Katia shares insight from her paper Sheep Fatigue During Transport: Lost in Translation? in which she used Reflexive Thematic Analysis, a qualitative research method rooted in psychology, to investigate stakeholder’s understanding of sheep fatigue and how it relates to welfare issues of exhaustion, stress, and sensory overload. She discusses the theme of anthropomorphism and its differing subsets: anthropocentric anthropomorphism, animal centric anthropomorphism, and heuristic anthropomorphism. Katia found anthropomorphism common within stakeholder’s interpretation of sheep experience and notes how it may be used to help shape public policy within animal welfare. They discuss the challenge with this prey animal’s stoic appearance and how QBA (qualitative behavior analysis) may help identify the subtle cues of fatigue in sheep while being transported. Listeners will also learn about the complexities of intercontinental live animal transport in this episode of Animals in Translation.
In this episode, Kerri interviews her co-host, Sophie, about being a pioneering researcher in sheep welfare, focusing on her groundbreaking work on sheep dental disorders that are highlighted in her recently published paper called Incisor Disorders of Merino Sheep (Ovis …continue
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In this episode, Kerri interviews her co-host, Sophie, about being a pioneering researcher in sheep welfare, focusing on her groundbreaking work on sheep dental disorders that are highlighted in her recently published paper called Incisor Disorders of Merino Sheep (Ovis …continue
Proudly brought to you by: 1 July 2025
In this episode, Sophie and Kerri interview PhD student and Teagusc Walsh Scholar, Amy Duley, about her paper called Irish cattle farmers’ experiences and perceptions of negative framing of farm animal welfare in the media. She discusses the communication gaps …continue
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