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Manual Restraint and Common Compound Administration Routes in Mice and Rats is a 14 minute video covering the basic principles of how to safely handle rats and mice and to administer compounds to these species via the most utilised routes including intraperitoneal, intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous, and oral gavage.
Procedures With Care is a collection of 10 video tutorials demonstrating best practice in administration of substances to laboratory rats and mice by subcutaneous, intramuscular, intraperitoneal and intravenous injection. The resources are designed to provide training so that individuals develop the manual skills needed to carry out the different procedures humanely and efficiently whilst minimising pain or distress to the research animal. Each video can be viewed online or downloaded as a trainer pack which includes the videos and accompanying photographs. Training videos of other species of research animals will be added in due course.
Practical animal handling is tutorial comprising of notes, images and videos which demonstrate the correct procedures for handling and restraint (including for administration of substances by injection) of rodents, rabbits and ferrets. It also covers the handling and restraint of both young and aged animals
Taming anxiety in mice is a journal article which provides experimental evidence demonstrating that handling mice either with use of tunnels or cupped, open hands rather than picking them up by the tail reduces anxiety in these research animals. It includes short supplementary videos of both the tunnel handling and cup handling methods which demonstrate these techniques.
Animal handling and basic procedures in Laboratory Animal Sciences is a series of videos which provide information on best practice in the handling, restraint and basic procedures in common laboratory animal species.