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A webinar presenting the welfare benefits of playpens for laboratory rats and how to implement them in your facility.

Webinar title slide: Rat playpens for improved welfare
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10 years of CRACK IT webinar: TaiNi, a small and ultra lightweight wireless EEG recording device.

The CRACK IT 10 logo superimposed over a photo of the TaiNi wireless EEG recording device in a caliper

A flyer providing tips in English, Spanish, French and German, as well as links to further resources.

Front cover of the "Rat Tickling Basics" flyer
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A webinar introducing the revised ARRIVE guidelines, the items in the ARRIVE Essential 10, and relevant resources.

The front slide of a webinar presentation by the NC3Rs' Nathalie Percie du Sert

To support the adoption of non-aversive methods for picking up mice, we have produced an A2-sized poster for display.

Screenshot of the NC3Rs Mouse Handling poster which outlines guidance on non-aversive handling techniques for the laboratory mouse

Professor Jane Hurst and Mr John Waters answer your questions about the refined handling techniques.

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The positive impact playpens have on laboratory rat welfare, and guidance on how to set one up in your institution.

A tall cage which has been used to create a rat playpen. There are three different tiers with ladders to allow the rats to climb up between each one. A number of white rats can be seen moving between the different levels. Enrichment and play objects are available on each level including an cardboard box that used to hold laboratory gloves, coloured balls, tubes, a wheel and a raised platform on the top level with some bedding material.

Learn more about why the single use of needles should be standard practice and how to implement this in your facility.

A rat being injected with a hypodermic needle