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Novel approaches to social housing and enrichment to improve welfare for rabbits, rats, guinea pigs and mice
November 3, 2024
National AALAS 2024 -- Over the past year, our team has been working on ways to provide additional social and environmental enrichment, and we have introduced pool parties to our rabbits, guinea pigs and rats. During this time, we also started housing our mice in larger, rat polycarbonates cages, giving them double the space that they were used to. We also added more enrichment for the rabbits and guinea pigs, such as loose hay stuffed in toys and frozen fruit treats. Overall, we saw many positive changes in the animals, their environments and the way they interacted with staff.