Animal Care and Lab-Bio Safety

Laurentian University maintains and supports a policy for the responsible care and use of animals in research. Animal related research allows us to gain knowledge essential to preventing and curing human and animal disease, eliminating pain and suffering, and in teaching for the purpose of scientific and technical education. Laurentian University co-operates and complies with all agencies in Canada regulating the use of laboratory animals. 

To learn more about the Principles of Animal Care and Use, click here. 

For animal care questions, please contact Casey Sigurdson at extension 2436 or at csigurdson@laurentian.ca. 

• Animal Use Protocol Form (accessed through ROMEO portal)
• Animal Purchase Manual Purchasing Requisition
• Application Form for Bringing Animals (pets) on Campus
• Endpoints Form
• Instructions to AUP 2014
• Pedagogical Merit Review Form
• Peer Review Form
• Post Approval Monitoring Form (accessed through ROMEO portal)
• Visitor Information and Waiver Access Form
• Visitors in Animal Areas Information Form       

• Access to the Animal Care Facility Policy
• Addendum 1 - Animal User Training Program
• Addendum 5 - Management of Breeding Colony
• Addendum 6 - Animal Care Facility Policies 
• Addendum 7 - Crisis Management Program
• Addendum 8 - CCAC Ethics of Animal Investigation
• Addendum 9 - Procedures for Handling Complaints Concerning Animal Care and Use
• Animal Care Committee Terms of Reference
• Animals on Campus Policy
• Cage Card ID Policy
• Complaints Policy
• Dress Code for the Animal Care Facility Policy
• Endpoints for Transgenic Animals Policy
• Endpoint Monitoring Checklist
• Facility Tours Policy
• Housing and Environmental Enrichment for Rodents
• Mice and Rats Anesthesia Policy
• Monitoring - Rodent Sentinel Program
• Ordering Animals Policy
• Procedures for the Completion of the Laboratory Animal Use Protocol 
• Transportation for Laboratory Rodents within the University
• Use of Animals in Teaching (Canadian Council on Animal Care policy)
• Use of Transgenic Animals

• Acetominophen as an Analgesic in Rodents 
• Alternatives to Acetaminophen for Pain Control Methods in Rats and Mice 
• Analgesics for Use in Laboratory Rodents
• Anesthesia on Rodents 
• Anesthetics and Use in Rats
• Anesthetics for Use in Mice
• Animal Care Facility Back-up Power Availability 
• Animal Purchase (requisition form can be found in Forms section)
• Animal Receiving Rodents
• Animal Use Inventory for Breeding Colonies
• Attachment to Blood Collection
• Attachment for Injections 
• Automatic Autoclave -  Digital Use 
• Autoclave Manual Use
• Bedding Disposal Station 
• Blood Collection in Small Birds
• Blood Collection using the Lateral Tail Vein or Central Artery in the Mouse
• Body Condition Scoring in Rodents
• Cage Cards 
• Cage Densities for Rats
• Cage Population Densities, Housing and Breeding for Mice
• Cage Washing Temperature Control and Biomonitoring
• Clean/ Dirty Equipment Separation
• Clove oil Anesthesia in Frogs
• Cancer Chemotherapeutics Safe Handling, Disposal, and Storage Procedures
• Capturing Wild Fishes by Electrofishing
• Cardiac Blood Collection in the Mouse
• Cardiac Blood Collection in the Rat  
• Care of Fire-Bellied Toads for Teaching Lab
• Care of Slider Turtles 
• Care of Tadpole in Effluent Water
• Daily Log: Animal Care room record for the ACF
• Dead Animal Tissue Removal
• Decerebration Procedure for Rats
• Determination of Death
• Disinfecting Pseudomonas Aeruginosa  
• Distribution of Controlled/Narcotic Drugs     
• Doxorubicin Safe Handling, Disposal, and Storage Procedures
• Ear Notching/Punching
• Emergency/Fire Procedure     
• Employee Injury and Animal Bite/Scratch Protocol
• Escapes and Recapture: mice and rats
• Euthanasia – Cervical Dislocation
• Euthanasia Guideline Attachment 
• Facial Vein Blood Collection on Mice
• Garbage Gathering and Disposal
• Gavage Procedure in the Mouse
• Gavage Procedure in the Rat    
• Health Checks/Sick Animal Reports    
• Housing and Environmental Enrichment for Rodents
• Housing and Husbandry Guidelines for Laboratory Animals 
• Husbandry    
• Implantation of 17β-estradiol-sustained release pellets (5mg or less)
• Injection Techniques (IM, SC, IP) in the Rat
• Injection Techniques (IM, SC, IP) on Mice
• Intravenous Injection using the Lateral Tail Vein in the Rat 
• Intravenous Injection Using the Lateral Tail Vein on Mice
• Intranasal Inoculation in Mice 
• Intratracheal Injection
• Jugular Blood Collection in Mice  
• Jugular Blood Collection in Rats
• Maintaining Mouse Rooms and Caging Using Recyclable Ventilated Cages
• Maintaining Mouse Rooms with Shoebox Caging
• Maintaining Rat Rooms and Caging Using Recyclable Ventilated Cages
• Microdialysis Technique
• Monitoring Vital Signs          
• Mouse Restraint
• Nude Mice     
• Oral vaccination using gavage method in mice    
• Rat Room Shoe Box Changes 
• Recovery Surgery        
• Research on Wild Fish Populations
• Restraint of the Rat
• Retroorbital Blood Collection in Mice 
• Rodent Anesthesia/Analgesic Reference
• Rodent Euthanasia
• Rodent Quality Assurance Program    
• Saphenous Blood Collection in the Mouse   
• Saphenous Vein Blood Collection in the Rat
• Sentinel Program
• Tail Artery Blood Collection in Rats
• Tail IV Blood Collection from the Rat  
• Tail snip/biopsy…genotyping
• Toe-Clipping of Amphibians
• Transport of live animals (mice) 
• Transporting Rodents from the Animal Care Facility to Research Laboratories
• Treatment Log
• Use of Fish Anaesthetic
• Vermin control    
• Vertical Flow Station
• Visitor Information 
• Visitors in Animal Areas

• Pedagogigal Merit of Live Animal-Based Teaching and Training

2020-2021 Meeting Dates