Approved Euthanasia Methods for Small Lab Animals: Tools and Techniques

Approved Euthanasia Methods for Rats, Mice, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs, Rats and Other Rodents;
Approved Euthanasia Methods for Small Lab Animals

Per U.S. NIH policies, this video demonstrates CO2-based euthanasia of rats at a major U.S. university...

General
Some Euthanizing Methods (All Species):
-Carbon Dioxide (used here)
-Euthanasia by use of general anesthesia

Physical Methods of Euthanasia:
-Cervical Dislocation (used here)
-Decapitation

Note: U.S. Govt. requires secondary assured means of death, hence Cervical Dislocation was performed.

http://research.uiowa.edu/animal/?get=euthanasia

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Approved
• Euthanasia
• Methods
• Small
• Lab
• Animals
• Rats
• CO2
• Cervical
• Dislocation
• Carbon
• Dioxide

[mbfla]

Question: What was the reason the University of Iowa was euthanizing these mammals? Many people have these same genera and spp. as pets. They appeared healthy on exam/view...

??? If this is commonplace at U of IA, maybe we should re-think our annual giving and/or write to the Office of Advancement, particularly the Annual Fund director.

[h0ll0wm9n]

@mbfla: For the record, this was NOT conducted at U of IA (it was another U.S. univ.). Rather, IA was the best source I could find for the reference text in this clip.

[kellzoorz]

The proper method of CO2 anesthesia involves replacing the air in the container with CO2 very slowly, not quickly, as you have done. The proper method puts the animals to sleep slowly - what you have done makes the uncomfortable and stress out as they die. Also, euthanizing many animals in one container (when they don't normally live that way) is generally considered to be stressful and inhumane. Please stop giving other animal researchers a bad image by publicizing your poor technique.

[RoseySnakes]

@iMPRESSi0Ns sure, then next time you get sick, make sure you don't take any medicine, don't receive any surgical procedures, and don't even think about getting vaccines. Most of the medical advancements in humans have gone through experiments in animal models first before being done in humans. You better be vegan then, because eating and wearing animal products are apparently F-ing better reasons than medical advancements to murder something for most people.

[rajinder2k4]

@RoseySnakes I think what they were trying to say is that people who take using medicines for granted should not be avert to being in a euthanizing program themselves (for the benefit of mankind) and also there are many smart people in this world who could come up with alternate methods.

[SmokeAlexOut]

@annbavage Nature did that's why we can kill ever other animal on whim.

[tobinator1317]

@annbavage Evolution and Samuel Colt

[scar504]

That's how i want to go.

[SuperSmilingSmiley]

Amateurs

[annbavage]

Who decided that man was superior to the Animal Kingdom???

[rocklobster665]

aww i know its for medical purposes but still :( there not jews there rats thats a few steps ahead of a jew on the food chain

[likitty20]

why does this have alot of dislikes? who ever disliked this needs to be in that chamber

[etocadet]

you do realise pre frozen chickens are your best option, I mean 99% of all male chickens are gassed at birth so there is a big supply

[IloveBEAUTYandMum]

this is sick this is very disstressing to all these animals