VTSC 236 — Laboratory Animals and Exotics
This course focuses on animals commonly used in a laboratory setting, as well as exotic pet animals. Emphasis is placed on biology, diseases, and care of various rodents, rabbits, avian, reptiles, and amphibians. Topics include husbandry, restraint, handling, pain and distress, biology and disease, and environmental enrichment. Laws governing the care and ethical use of laboratory animals are also covered, as well as veterinary nursing skills as it applies to laboratory animals and exotics. Laboratory sessions are conducted off campus. Three lecture and two laboratory hours per week. Vertebrate Anatomy and Physiology I, BIOL 206 Vertebrate Anatomy and Physiology II, and VTSC 211 Veterinary Clinical Methods I. Pre/ Clinical Methods II.