This webinar introduces the Mellorater, a free smartphone app that turns the Five Domains Model of animal welfare into a checklist animal guardians can use. It explains the background to the Five Domains Model, the changes in the 2020 version, and the model’s benefits and limitations.
It shows how the app works, from the 18 statements and confidence ratings to the rosette results display, and where it is and isn’t appropriate to use. It finishes with ways the app can be used in veterinary practice and a live welfare assessment of Twix, a rescue cat.
Presented by Dr Bidda Jones at the 2025 ACVN Nurse Conference (Medical stream).
Includes the full recording (49 minutes), the presentation slides as a PDF, and a quiz. Pass the quiz to receive a certificate worth 1 AVNAT point.


