For their entire lives, Donna and Figaro the rabbits never saw the light of day. They spent life in a cage at an animal testing laboratory, and they were constantly used for animal tests. The grim ...

General: Ethical considerations and regulatory issues / Marilyn J. Brown and Kathleen L. Smiler ; Anesthesia and analgesia / Patrick A. Lester ; Rashida M. Moore, Katherine A. Shuster, and Daniel D.

Group housing of rabbits met the experimental and economic limitations, and so these cannot be used to justify the continued use of single cages for the majority of rabbits. ... Group sizes of four to ...

In the wild, rabbits are prey animals and so the act of being picked up and handled can be extremely stressful for them. Yet, the most used method of handling laboratory rabbits is to grasp the animal ...