The potential for microchip-automated technology to improve enrichment practices
Abstract The greatest limitation involved with providing enrichment and evaluating its effects on captive mammals is a lack of available staff time [Hoy et al., 2009]. One method to overcome this is through the use of automated husbandry systems to dispense enrichment to individual animals by using implantable radio frequency microchips. An international multi-institutional survey […]
Welfare aspects of identification and marking methods for domestic cats
Uncontrolled reproduction of (feral and semi-feral) domestic cats can seriously impair the welfare of the animals and can also lead to social conflicts in the community. Neutering programmes are internationally accepted as a means to control the reproduction of feral and semi-feral cats that conforms to animal welfare. Such programmes involve catching, neutering and returning […]