Exploring the scientific and welfare implications of food restriction for rodents, featuring academic and industry experts.
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Details of the Rabbit Grimace Scale, including a poster for display in laboratory rooms and corridors.
Guidance, information and recommendations for those working with zebrafish.
Information on techniques for sampling blood in the rat, covering non-surgical, surgical and terminal techniques.
Guidance on catherisation or cannulation for blood sampling in laboratory animals.
Guidance on non-aversive methods for handling mice. Includes tutorials, FAQs and tips for implementation.
Recommendations for reducing aggression between group-housed male mice.
Learn more about skin swabbing as a welfare refinement, and how to establish a protocol for skin swabbing in your laboratory.
Guidance on best practices in handling and restraint for mice, rats and other laboratory rodents.
Approaches for sampling blood in the ferret, covering surgical and terminal techniques.
Survey of the approaches used for training monkeys for chair restraint.
Information to help refine the housing and husbandry of the laboratory rabbit.
Information to help refine the housing and husbandry of the laboratory cat.
Information to help refine the housing and husbandry of the laboratory rat.
The positive impact playpens have on laboratory rat welfare, and guidance on how to set one up in your institution.
Information to help refine the housing and husbandry of the laboratory guinea pig.
Guidance document on opportunities to reduce and refine the use of GA mice through cryopreservation and sharing.
Guiding strategy and encouraging the adoption of microsampling techniques within any research or safety study.
A newsletter for animal technicians interested in putting the 3Rs into practice in their facilities, including new resources, upcoming events and
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A webinar exploring how environmental monitoring can replace the use of sentinel animals for monitoring mouse colonies for the presence of pathogens.
Information to help refine the housing and husbandry of the laboratory hamster.
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The evidence supporting the use of tunnel and cup handling to improve animal welfare and scientific outcomes (presented at AALAS 2021).
Details of the Rat Grimace Scale, including a poster for display in laboratory rooms and corridors.
Information to help refine the housing and husbandry of the laboratory mouse.
