A method to improve the housing of breeding rats used to produce pups for tissue (2025)

Booth, K., King, J., Stephen, J. et al.

Abstract

Rats are considered highly social animals. In the wild, they live in groups and develop complex social structures. Regrouping rats is considered stressful. We therefore wanted to keep animals in monogamous pairs so that they could develop a social bond that was not being repeatedly disrupted and where they could be housed on solid floors all the time as we felt that this would provide better animal welfare.