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Why All Healthy Laboratory Animals Should Be Rehomed, No Matter How Small
SIMPLE SUMMARY: This paper explores why it is ethical to rehome all healthy laboratory animals after the experiments have finished. We describe our own rehoming experience from the joint Ani-mal Welfare Body of Utrecht University and the University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Nether-lands. During a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10486491/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37684991 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13172727 |
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author | Van Loo, Pascalle L. P. Janssens, Monique R. E. |
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description | SIMPLE SUMMARY: This paper explores why it is ethical to rehome all healthy laboratory animals after the experiments have finished. We describe our own rehoming experience from the joint Ani-mal Welfare Body of Utrecht University and the University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Nether-lands. During a pilot period, over 350 animals were successfully rehomed. Now, rehoming in our lab is a standard policy and common practice. We discuss several challenges and our responses to those through the continuous evaluation of this adoption program. ABSTRACT: This paper explores the ethical imperative of rehoming all healthy animals of sentient species after experiments have finished or when they have become otherwise redundant. We take into account disparate perspectives in animal ethics and see how they point in the same direction. We illustrate our case with our own rehoming experience from the joint Animal Welfare Body of Utrecht University and the University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands. The primary pilot proved successful, after which the principle of rehoming became standing policy and common practice. We discuss several challenges and our responses to those through continuous evaluation of the adoption program. |
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spelling | pubmed-104864912023-09-09 Why All Healthy Laboratory Animals Should Be Rehomed, No Matter How Small Van Loo, Pascalle L. P. Janssens, Monique R. E. Animals (Basel) Article SIMPLE SUMMARY: This paper explores why it is ethical to rehome all healthy laboratory animals after the experiments have finished. We describe our own rehoming experience from the joint Ani-mal Welfare Body of Utrecht University and the University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Nether-lands. During a pilot period, over 350 animals were successfully rehomed. Now, rehoming in our lab is a standard policy and common practice. We discuss several challenges and our responses to those through the continuous evaluation of this adoption program. ABSTRACT: This paper explores the ethical imperative of rehoming all healthy animals of sentient species after experiments have finished or when they have become otherwise redundant. We take into account disparate perspectives in animal ethics and see how they point in the same direction. We illustrate our case with our own rehoming experience from the joint Animal Welfare Body of Utrecht University and the University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands. The primary pilot proved successful, after which the principle of rehoming became standing policy and common practice. We discuss several challenges and our responses to those through continuous evaluation of the adoption program. MDPI 2023-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10486491/ /pubmed/37684991 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13172727 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Van Loo, Pascalle L. P. Janssens, Monique R. E. Why All Healthy Laboratory Animals Should Be Rehomed, No Matter How Small |
title | Why All Healthy Laboratory Animals Should Be Rehomed, No Matter How Small |
title_full | Why All Healthy Laboratory Animals Should Be Rehomed, No Matter How Small |
title_fullStr | Why All Healthy Laboratory Animals Should Be Rehomed, No Matter How Small |
title_full_unstemmed | Why All Healthy Laboratory Animals Should Be Rehomed, No Matter How Small |
title_short | Why All Healthy Laboratory Animals Should Be Rehomed, No Matter How Small |
title_sort | why all healthy laboratory animals should be rehomed, no matter how small |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10486491/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37684991 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13172727 |
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