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The attending veterinarian’s contract of employment: Curse or blessing for animals in research institutions?

When attending veterinarians are not provided adequate job security by research institutions, there is no guarantee that they are reliable allies of nonhuman animals and implement the provisions set forth in the federal animal welfare regulations.

Year Published: 2002Topics: Regulations & Ethical ReviewAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Reinhardt, V. 2002. The attending veterinarian's contract of employment: Curse or blessing for animals in research institutions? Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 5(1), 73-74.

Coping with lab animal morbidity and mortality: a trainer’s role

The author discusses the role of an animal research facility trainer in helping to teach laboratory animal facility staff how to recognize negative behavior patterns, manage grief, and help to prevent feelings of guilt.

Year Published: 2002Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Overhulse, K. A. 2002. Coping with lab animal morbidity and mortality: a trainer's role. Lab Animal 31(6), 39-43.

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Guidebook, 2nd Edition

Animals should be housed in a manner that facilitates the expression of species-typical behavior and minimizes stress-induced behaviors. for social species, housing systems should be designed to accomodate pair or group housing of animals. .. Cages should (1) allow for...

Year Published: 2002Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) 2002. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Guidebook, 2nd Edition. Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, Bethesda.

The Environmental Enrichment Committee

Although many enrichment strategies have been used prior to the formation of the committee, having the facility director formally authorize the committee gave the members credibility with the Principle Investigators, resources for program development, and time allotments for meetings and...

Year Published: 2002Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Steward, K. L. 2002. The Environmental Enrichment Committee. Proceedings of the World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, 106 (Abstract).

Amendments to the Farm Bill would affect research animal welfare

Year Published: 2002Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Shalev, M. 2002. Amendments to the Farm Bill would affect research animal welfare. Lab Animal 31(5), 17.

The ill-effects of uncomfortable quarters

From all these findings, it will now be obvious that the provision of comfortable quarters - including handling procedures - with a stable environment, companionship, and freedom to engage in the species-typical basic activities, is of supreme importance, alike for...

Year Published: 2002Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Russell, W. M. S. 2002. The ill-effects of uncomfortable quarters. In: Comfortable Quarters for Laboratory Animals, Ninth Edition. Reinhardt, V. , Reinhardt, A. (eds.), 1-5. Animal Welfare Institute, Washington, DC.

The impact of pain and distress on the outcome of research: Why animal welfare and good science go together

The notion that strategies that promote animal welfare benefit scientific outcomes would seem to be self-evident. ... Strategies that are useful fall into three broad categories: 1) the management of pain and distress through pharmacological intervention, 2) refinement of techniques...

Year Published: 2002Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Rose, M. 2002. The impact of pain and distress on the outcome of research: Why animal welfare and good science go together. Proceedings of the World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, 58 (Abstract).

Behavioral management: Its everyone’s job

Behavioral management as a concept provides a common ground from which animal facilities may start to build a successful facility behavioral program.

Year Published: 2002Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Rice, T. R., Walden, S., Laule, G. E. et al. 2002. Behavioral management: Its everyone's job. Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science 41(4), 58-61.

Implications of Human-Animal Interactions and Bonds in the Laboratory: Introduction to the Special Issue

Introduction to ILAR's issue Implications of Human-Research Interactions and Bond in the Laboratory. I was encouraged not to assign names to the many rhesus monkeys in my charge. I was admonished that the animals are research subjects, not pets. The...

Year Published: 2002Topics: Human-Animal InteractionAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Wolfle, T. L. 2002. Introduction. ILAR Journal 43(1), 1-3.

Philosophical debate on the nature of well-being: Implications for animal welfare

A theoretical discussion on the nature and definition of well-being. The different conceptions of well-being used by philosophers provide a basis for evaluating different conceptions of animal welfare.

Year Published: 2002Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Appleby, M. C., Sandoe, J. 2002. Philosophical debate on the nature of well-being: Implications for animal welfare. Animal Welfare 11, 283-294.