Procedures which cause moderate anxiety, fear, pain, or distress
for short periods or minor discomfort or distress for long periods.
For instance: recovery from major surgeries like opening
and closing the rib-cage, bone operations, or removal of the uterus or gall
bladder, done under general anaesthetic and with effective use of pain
killers after the operation; surgical procedures on conscious animals but
with the use of local anaesthetics to prevent pain during the operation and
other pain killers after it; movement of excitable free-range domesticated
livestock to unfamiliar housing.
Moderate suffering or noxiousness. Procedures require good justification.
