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Animals in Laboratories
Help Former Lab Animals This Giving Tuesday
Press ReleaseNovember 21, 2022Animals in LaboratoriesNovember 29 is Giving Tuesday—a global day of giving that offers the perfect opportunity during the holiday season to contribute to a better world. This year, the Animal Welfare Institute...
3D Printing for Animal Welfare
Animals in LaboratoriesEnrichment—adding complexity to an animal’s environment—is an essential element of improving the lives of animals in captivity. Species-appropriate toys, puzzles, and structures, for example, can provide cognitive stimulation and opportunities...
Anxiolytic Effects of Environmental Enrichment for Mice: A Systematic Review
Animals in LaboratoriesStandard barren housing systems for laboratory mice restrict the expression of natural behaviors and are associated with a high incidence of abnormal behavior. There is abundant evidence that environmental enrichment...
Beagle Breeder Atrocities Leave USDA-APHIS Unmoved
Animals in Laboratories“Beagle production facility.” That’s how John Sagartz, chief strategy officer for Inotiv (the company that purchased Envigo last November) repeatedly described its Cumberland, Virginia, dog-breeding operation during a June 2022...
Monkeying Around as Enrichment: Using Caregivers to Provide Social Enrichment to Macaques in Research
Animals in LaboratoriesEnrichment is pivotal to captive animal welfare. Social enrichment is particularly important for any social animals who, due to practical constraints, are not housed in larger groups. Pair housing is...
Envigo Settlement Is First Step in Addressing Company’s Abysmal Animal Welfare Record
Press ReleaseJuly 18, 2022Animals in LaboratoriesThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is grateful that thousands of dogs will be rescued from abusive conditions following a settlement reached Thursday between the federal government and Envigo, a company that breeds...
Court Intervenes to Halt Horror at Beagle Breeding Facility
Animals in LaboratoriesA federal court in Virginia has taken the extraordinary step of granting the Department of Justice a temporary restraining order against a facility in Cumberland, Virginia, that breeds and sells...
National Academies’ Curious Conflict of Interest Criteria
Animals in LaboratoriesThe National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) recently announced the provisional composition of an ad hoc committee that will examine the need, both current and future, for the...
Protective and Stimulatory Environmental Enrichments in Japanese Quail Colony
Animals in LaboratoriesBarren colony cages are often used for housing of breeding and research quail, especially within laboratory animal housing systems. These systems provide for ease of care and the maintenance of...
Should Killing Surplus Lab Animals Be a Crime?
Animals in LaboratoriesA court in Germany is investigating whether killing animals bred for labs but never used in research constitutes a crime, since German law forbids hurting animals without reasonable cause. According...