Animal Welfare Information Center
United States Department of Agriculture
National Agricultural Library
United States Department of Agriculture
National Agricultural Library
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Comfortable Quarters for Rats in Research Institutions. Lawlor, M.M.
Online: http://awionline.org/pubs/cq02/Cq-rats.html
Description: A discussion of the currently recommended caging parameters for rats and suggestion that a revision needs to take into account the basic behavioral, physiological, and exercise needs of the animals who live in such enclosures.
Environmental Enrichment for Laboratory Mice: Preferences and Consequences. van der Weerd, H.A.
Online: http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/01801846/inhoud.htm
Description: This thesis indicates that the degree of complexity of environmental enrichment affects the behavior and physiology of mice. Individual chapters are viewed as PDF documents.
Environmental Enrichment for Rats. Patternson-Kane, E.
Online: http://www.awionline.org/ht/d/ContentDetails/id/2201/pid/2518
Description: An article about providing enrichment for rats and published in the Animal Welfare Institute Quarterly, Spring 2002 issue.
Fact Sheets. Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching Ltd. (ANZCCART).
Online: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/ANZCCART/publications/facts.html
Description: These fact sheets discuss the nutrition, housing, husbandry, and veterinary care of various animal species, including rodents, in laboratory environments.
Guidelines for the Housing of Rats in Scientific Institutions.
Online: http://www.animalethics.org.au/reader/housing-rats
Description: Provides guidance on best practice standards for housing rats based on published scientific information and practices employed in New South Wales, Australia.
Mouse Genome Informatics. The Jackson Laboratory.
Online: http://www.informatics.jax.org/
Description: Provides integrated access to information on the genetics and biology of the laboratory mouse.
Pain and Distress in Laboratory Rodents and Lagormorphs (PDF|139 KB).
Online: http://www.lal.org.uk/pdffiles/FelasaPain.pdf
Description: Report of the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations (FELASA) Working Group on Pain and Distress accepted by the FELASA Board of Management November 1992. The FELASA Working Group considered the nature of pain and distress in laboratory rodents and lagomorphs because they constitute the vast majority of subjects used in experimentation. The information is arranged in sections, although these are not always mutually exclusive.
Report of the ACLAM Task Force on Rodent Euthanasia (PDF|148 KB). American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine.
Online: http://www.aclam.org/print/report_rodent_euth.pdf
Description: This 2005 report focuses on three issues: euthanasia of fetal and neonatal rodents, the use of carbon dioxide for rodent euthanasia, and the impact of euthanasia techniques on data.
Rodents: Housing and Husbandry. National Centre for the Replacement, R.a.R.o.A.i.R.N.
Online: http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/category.asp?catID=39
Description: Provides information and links on rodent housing, husbandry, and enrichment.
The Laboratory Rat: A Natural History. Berdoy, M.
Online: http://www.ratlife.org/
Description: Information and footage from a short film that follows the lives of domestic rats after being released in a large outdoor enclosure where they have to compete, like their wild cousins, for food, shelter and mates.
Variables, Refinement and Environmental Enrichment for Rodents and Rabbits kept in Research Institutions. Reinhardt, V. and A. Reinhardt.
Online: http://www.awionline.org/ht/d/sp/i/11592/pid/11592
Description: This online book discusses refinement and environmental improvement techniques for rodents and rabbits kept in research facilities.
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