Handbook of Laboratory Animal Management and Welfare

NB. This has now been replaced by the Fourth Edition (2013).

This Third Edition was a manual for all those that work or plan to work with animals. It covered all aspects of animal care, and sought to improve animal welfare through best practice and refinement of traditional animal care techniques. The authors dealt with principles applicable to all species, including training licensees, regulatory refinement, euthanasia, laboratory animal husbandry, anaesthesia, and surgery. The authors devoted specific sections to biology and husbandry, and also covered large and small lab animals, birds, amphibians, and wild species.

Table of Contents, Section 1: 1 Education and Training For the License Holder; 2 The Regulatory Framework; 3 Health, Safety and Security; 4 Pain, Stress and Humane End Points; 5 Humane Methods of Killing; 6 Introduction to Laboratory Animal Husbandry; 7 Anaesthesia of Laboratory Animals; 8 Management of Pain, Suffering, Distress and Lasting Harm; 9 Conduct of Minor Procedures; 10 Introduction to Surgery and Suturing; 11 The Project License Application; Section 2: Species. For each species covers: Behaviour, Housing, Feeding, Water, Environment, Breeding, Growth, Handling, Pain and stress recognition, Common diseases and health monitoring, Biological data and useful reference data, Drug doses for anaesthesia, Drug doses for analgesia. 12 Small Laboratory Animals; 13 Genetically Modified Animals and Harmful Mutants; 14 Carnivores; 15 Primates; 16 The Larger Domestic Species; 17 Birds; 18 Amphibia; 19 Wild Animals; Glossary; Index

Third Edition. 43 illustrations. 432 pages. Paperback. Suitable for veterinarians, veterinary technicians, lab animal workers, and veterinary students. A review of this book is available in Laboratory Animals, July 2005, Volume 39 (3). Available from Wiley Online Library, and from Amazon. 

ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-1159-1
ISBN: 1-4051-1159-3