For their entire lives, Donna and Figaro the rabbits never saw the light of day. They spent life in a cage at an animal testing laboratory, and they were constantly used for animal tests. The grim ...

Healthy laboratory animals who are no longer needed in research deserve the chance to be rehomed. The practice of rehoming retired laboratory animals is more common with dogs, but other species are ...

There is a considerable interest and need for evidence-based recommendations regarding the social housing of laboratory rabbits. This presentation will review the principles surrounding the social ...

General: Ethical considerations and regulatory issues / Marilyn J. Brown and Kathleen L. Smiler ; Anesthesia and analgesia / Patrick A. Lester ; Rashida M. Moore, Katherine A. Shuster, and Daniel D.

A laboratory in upstate New York periodically obtained virgin female New Zealand White rabbits from a local rabbitry for the purpose of producing antibodies against bovine fibrinogen. All rabbits were ...

In 1898, scientists in Uruguay noticed that some of their laboratory rabbits were dying from a mysterious illness, their skin riddled with tumors and weeping wounds. The researchers named the disease ...