"Common Enrichment Devices and Programs" is a chapter from: Smith, C.P. and V. Taylor (September 1995). Environmental Enrichment Information Resources for Laboratory Animals: 1965 - 1995: Birds, Cats, Dogs, Farm Animals, Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents. AWIC Resource Series No. 2. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD and Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW), Potters Bar, Herts, UK, pp. 243-246.
In an effort to show the wide variety of items or strategies commonly employed in enrichment programs, we searched through articles for toys, devices, feed items, socialization programs, etc. and listed them according to the species or class of animal for which they are used.
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Balls (leather, rubber, plastic or tennis)
Cage space to allow wing flapping
Cocoa husks
Colored objects
Dustbaths
Foraging litter or substrate
Grain blocks
Litter
Mirrors
Music
Nest building material
Nest boxes
Operant feeders (singly housed birds)
Pecking targets
Perches
Pre-formed nests
Roll-away nest box
Roosting shelves
Shredded paper
Social groups
Straw substrate
Wood shavings
Balls
Bedding materials
Bells
Catnip toys
Climbing frames
Colony housing
Sheepskin mice
Perches
Climbing poles
Human interaction
Movable toys
Music
Puzzle boxes
Elevated resting spaces
Ropes
Scratching posts
Shelves
Social housing
Stuffed toys
Vertical space
Viewing panels
Balls
Bedding
Bones
Chew toys
Exercise
Gumabone chews
Human interaction
Knotted cloth
Novel objects
Nylabone frisbees
Nylabones
Plastic decoys
Rawhide
Resting boards
Ropes
Socialization
Tug toys
Walks
Bedding
Fitting barriers
Human-Animal Interaction
Manipulable objects
Novel objects
Operant Food Devices
Social Housing
Foraging material
Grazing areas
Hanging Balls
Human-animal interaction
Novel objects
Social housing
Substrates (straw, wood shavings, etc.)
Social or natural grouping
Bedding or substrate (straw)
Mirrors
Climbing structures (rocks or wood structures)
Balls
Bedding (straw, wood chips)
Chains
Edinburgh Foodball
Forage material (hay)
Free-range
Group housing
Heated floor mats
Hoses
Human-animal interaction
Knotted cloth
Manipulatable devices
Music
Novel objects
Plastic jugs
Pre-formed nests
Ropes
Scented plastic apples
Substrates (straw, wood chips, sand, etc)
Tires
Turn-around farrowing crate
Balls
Bite cups
Crickets
Foraging devices
Fur covered movable toys
Hide-and-seek tunnels
Mazes
Moving prey-models
Music
Nest boxes
Plastic burrows
PVC tubes
Shelters
Swimming pans
Balls
Bedding (straw, wood chips)
Burrows
Free range
Fresh fruits or vegetables
Gnawing objects
Group housing
Hide-boxes
Manipulatable objects (wood)
Music
Nest boxes
Nesting material
Pair housing (except adult males)
PVC pipe
Resting shelf
Roughage or Forage (hay, straw)
Varied diet
Bedding
Burrows
Cage dividers
Climbing accessories
Climbing frame
Exercise devices (running wheels)
Film canisters
Foraging devices
Funnel
Gnaw blocks or sticks
Group or social housing (not hamsters or adult males)
Hide boxes
Ladders
Mazes
Music
Nest boxes or nest-building material - (hay, tissues, or wood-wool)
Platforms
PVC pipe
Ramps
Shelves
Shuttle box
Tubes
Tunnels
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The following links access other chapters in Environmental Enrichment Information Resources for Laboratory Animals:
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Phone: (301) 504-6212
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