Caring for laboratory mice
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- More mice are used in scientific and medical research than all other types of animal combined. Caring for mice so that they are healthy and content is crucial for their sake, and for the sake of the science. Food and water is usually provided 'ad lib,' the mice can eat and drink as much as they want. The absorbent material at the bottom of the cage is cleaned out regularly, typically every week. Cages have chew sticks and cardboard tubes to hide in and chew. Rodent teeth keep growing so mice have to chew to wear them down. Nesting material is also added and in some places seeds and dried fruit are hidden in with the bottom wood-chips so that the mice are stimulated to explore and dig.
Thanks for taking a proper care of them. I feel very thankful to these little things, if not them, there would be no technology or medicine.
Over 90% of tests in animals are a failure when applied to humans.
You are brainwashed by their propaganda. Animal testing is lazy fraudulent science.Its only gain is profit for those engaged in the abuse of animals..... bottom line.
Proper care , said butchers.. ops i mean animal research
@@somebody.5402 there's a huge difference between medical research and product testing
@@livingmorganism what is this huge difference..? Do the sentinent creatures end up dead and disected, are they made to do things they don't want to do. Do they have freedom of their lives...????
@@somebody.5402 Research on rodent models helps guide human clinical trials and identify mechanisms that are similar similar in humans against which we can develop drugs. I am a physician and biomedical researcher working in the field of ageing using fruit fly and mouse models. Thanks to mice and flies we have now identified autophagy enhancers such as spermidine and rapamycin that can actually prolong human lifespan. Also you never test anything on one specie. For accurate results a variety of vertebrate and nonvertebrate animals are used and the results are then assessed via meta-analysis. When it comes to our health and safety, humans must come first. We would not be where we are without these animal models.
The other thing is, if you want to be fair, rodents causes over 20 billion dollars of damage a year and several hundred death a year in the United States from diseases rodents carry (ie. leptospira, hanta, etc.). There are reasons why rat and mouse traps were invented.
I’ve found an easy way to catch pet mice is with a small glass bottle (like a milk bottle or something without much chance of them getting stuck in) and a little food at the end. When they go to get it just cover the top and slowly flip it over and you have a mouse in a bottle. They can’t escape as easily as a tube and don’t particularly mind it as long as you are careful not to move to fast
Can you make a video on how to clean the area (for example the floors etc) where lab nice are cared for?
Hello, at the moment, thanks to COVID, we're not allowed into facilities. What you are describing is more of a training film for staff than the sort of educational film about medical conditions we normally make. However I'll ask around and see if any of our members have made this sort of thing and if so, whether we can have a copy to put up here. All the best, Richard, film maker at UAR.
They are so cute :D
they where cute.
Their cages seem too small and one wood block and one tube for toys is kind of sparse.
The best care you could give these mice is to leave them alone and not subject them to unnecessary testing.
"unnecessary testing"
You mean the cancer, HIV , Alzheimer's, Autism, Diabetic, heart disease.
Mice are used in all of these research and test. Their lives hold more meaning than yours ever will.
@@atach881 well thankyou for your insight. But animal testing is still animal and human abuse....
@@somebody.5402 Tell that to all the people who have lost their children, mothers, fathers and friends from cancer. You are heartless and cruel, not because you think animals shouldn't be tested but because you think that somehow either mice or humans are allowed to suffer and lose their families to all kinds of diseases not to mention the regular abuse animals go through in the wild.
At least these nice get to live without being tortured, are allowed to play and stay with their families, and don't die for hunger, thirst or accident.
They live wonderful lives and when they get out down once they're old, and die painlessly and fast. It's because of them that we've been able to make life saving drugs to keep children and families alive.
@@atach881 animals are not a model for human health. The failure rate of animal tested products when converted to humans has a failure rate of at least 95%.
None of the animals get to experience a nice life and certainly don't live to an old age and do not have a painless life.
Explain to me about toxicology test... and how non human primates are handled in laboratories....
@@atach881 cures have been lost for people because of animal testing. Even the BMJ has stated that experiments on animals are of know relevance to human health. Medicine should be human centred using non animal testing methods.