HUMANE EXPERIMENTATION (cont)
REFINEMENT (cont)
Improved animal handling and restraint is also an experimental refinement. It is more humane for a well-trained technician to restrain an animal or obtain a blood sample than it is for an inexperienced person to repeatedly try and fail. Additionally, it is essential that a sufficient number of trained people be available to capture, restrain and treat larger or more fractious animals. Proper handling is not only more humane, it will also result in more reliable research data.