Keeping your pet rat entertained and happy is all about providing variety, interaction, and enrichment.

The Animal Welfare Act 1 currently contains no environmental enrichment provisions for laboratory-reared rats and mice ... that are commonly utilized by the pet trade (Fig. 1).

Researchers should consider stress as a potential variable in studies 7, and environmental enrichment can reduce stress in laboratory rats and mice. Measurable parameters considered to be linked ...

Environmental enrichment is the alteration of animals' microenvironment to provide them with the opportunity to perfrom species-specific behaviors that we perceive as positive, while reducing abnormal ...

The hammock was trialed in a group of female rats to assess durability, impact on behavior and preference over other shelter enrichment items: - tunnels - rat corner homes The number of observed ...