Catching animals who have escaped from their primary enclosure: A discussion by the Laboratory Animal Refinement & Enrichment Forum

摘要

"What is the best strategy to capture animals who escape from their primary enclosure? It's my experience with group and single-housed rhesus and stump-tailed macaques that catching animals who get loose can be a very traumatic, chaotic event not onlyfor the animal who is free but for all the animals of the room. However, this is not really necessary. It all depends on the personality of the attending care personnel. Some people freak out and create a real mess shouting, scaring the escapee with broom sticks or trying to catch the escapee with big nets, while other people remain calm and quasimesmerize the disoriented animal into entering a transfer cage or simply returning back into the home cage or jumping into an open empty cage baited with favored food?" (Reinhardt)