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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, March 16, 1999
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Animal Care Unit protects animals used in experiments
By Jennifer Roush
jroush @kansan.com
Kanson staff writer
Before 1979 — when the unit became a department at KU — professors who did experiments or research with animals took care of the animals on their own.
One branch of the KU research and public service department has gone to the dogs. And the cats. And the rats, mice and rabbits.
That could have been a liability for the University and possibly for the animals, she said.
The Animal Care Unit, which is in the basement of Malott Hall and funded by the University of Kansas, is home to the animals used for research projects, said Nancy Schwarting, supervisor of technical services for the unit.
"There was no way to assure quality of animal care, and no standardized way of caring for and using animals." Schwarting said.
"The Animal Care Unit's presence at the University is crucial to ensure that every aspect of animal care and use is done in a humane fashion," she said.
The unit wasn't very popular when it opened. Some KU professors saw staff members as the "animal police," which wasn't the unit's function, Schwarting said.
"Dr. Bresnahan's attitude is that we are here to educate people on how to use animals," she said,
referring to Jim Bresnahan, director of the Animal Care Unit.
Bresnahan, a Laboratory Animal Medicine Board certified veterinarian, came to KU from Duke University medical school in 1985. He said that he came to KU because the unit had a reputation of having an excellent program.
"It's a good program for a variety of reasons but primarily because of the people." Bresnahan said. "We have a supportive administration, good investigators and excellent technicians."
techniques. The unit is home to 1,138 laboratory animals now, making it easier for employees to care for the animals than it was during the past decade when numbers were higher. Schwarting said.
Schwarting said that all of the animals at the unit were used in research at KU but that no invasive research was done to any animals except the rats and mice. The cats, dogs and rabbits at the unit are usually involved in antibody production or oral health studies.
Atmough the majority of the unit's animals are rats or mice, it houses at least a dozen other species, including the snakes exhibited at the Natural History Museum.
Animals housed at the unit also are guaranteed a happy retirement after their research careers are finished.
Schwarting said that all of the unit's 30 cats, for example, would
ANIMAL CARE UNIT ROLL CALL:
■ 630 rats
■ 486 mice
■ 82 snakes
■ 46 rabbits
■ 46 loods and frogs
■ 38 dogs
■ 30 cats
■ 19 xenophus
    (an African clawed frog)
■ 7 turtles
■ 2 hamsters
    (a small mammal)
2 lizards/salamanders
go home with caregivers or investigators after the projects were finished. All of the unit's dogs will have homes as well.
She said that she enjoyed her job and loved the animals.
Emily Cowles, Overland Park junior, is a biology student who fed and cared for the unit's cats on weekends and holidays for more than two years.
I take a dog, and she just goes crazy whenever I come home because I smell like cats," she said. "When you let 15 cats out of their cages all at once, they just start rubbing up against your legs."
Top: Nancy Schwarting, the supervisor of technical services at the Animal Care Unit, demonstrates the proper handling techniques on a large female rabbit.
Left: The Animal Care Unit at the University of Kansas is home to more than 1,100 animals, including cats, dogs and rabbits, with the majority being laboratory rats. Nancy Schwarting holds one of the few snakes housed in the unit, which are exhibited at the Natural History Museum. Photo by Erin McElhinney/KANSAN.
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