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Housing and welfare Flashcards

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The 5 provisions

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  1. Good nutrition
  2. Good environment
  3. Good health
  4. Appropriate behaviour
  5. Positive mental experiences
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Rabbit housing

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  • protection from predators
  • protection from excessive heat and other inclement weather
  • space to exercise and explore
  • provide different environments like a warren
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Guinea pig housing

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  • Protection from predators
  • protection from cold/damp
  • space to exercise and explore
  • compatible same-species company
  • separate summer and winter accommodation
  • dry sheltered nest area
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Chinchilla housing

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  • Dry cool environment with space for nocturnal activity
  • quiet, cool resting place for daytime
  • protection from excessive heat and damp
  • space for exercise
  • will chew everything
  • mesh on its own can lead to pressure sores on feet
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Small pet mammal housing

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  • Syrian hamsters are solitary, the rest are social
  • space and furnishings to allow normal behaviour (foraging, climbing, burrowing)
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Rat housing

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  • like it cool and moist
  • can’t cope with US and other high pitched noises
  • can climb
  • active day and night
  • social
  • boys may urinate frequently
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Gerbil and hamster housing

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  • desert animals
  • prefer it dry
  • use burrowing to keep cool
  • gerbils: diurnal
  • hamsters: nocturnal
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Caged bird housing

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  • need to be able to spread wings and fly
  • appropriate perching
  • bathing facilities
  • appropriate, varying photoperiod/uv-light
  • appropriate temp, humidity, ventilation
  • environmental enrichment
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Housing vivarium for reptiles

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  • secure
  • enough space and furniture to allow normal behaviour
  • need a thermostatically controlled external heat source
  • need UVB source within 20cm of basking area, replaced annually
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Items needed for a reptile vivarium

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  • ceramic bulb and holder
  • strip light and starter
  • thermostat
  • max/min thermometer
  • humidity meter
  • cage furniture and substrate
  • maybe combo heat/light lamp but need heat when light is off
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Heating options for reptiles

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  • heat pads (most burn issues from these)
  • ceramic bulbs
  • blue-red bulbs
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Lighting options for reptiles

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  • UVB compact and strip lighting
  • heat/light combined bulbs (beware they still need heat), should be in addition
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Humidity of reptiles

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  • most species: spray daily/twice daily
  • if need high humidity use automatic misting, needs more ventilation
  • some need dripping water to drink from
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Substrates for reptiles

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  • sand and gravel ‘calci-sand’ (can gat impaction if fed on)
  • soil/peat (beware fungus)
  • orchid bark
  • astroturf/reptocarpet (can’t dig etc.)
  • bedding pellets
  • maize husks
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Chameleon housing

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  • high daytime temp
  • dramatic drop at night with high humidity
  • need well ventilated enclosure
  • need dripping water
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Bearded dragon housing

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  • hot spot in day
  • diurnal variation
  • high UV requirement
  • may bromate
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Leopard gecko housing

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  • arid environment
  • humid hide to aid shedding
  • need UV light
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Snake housing

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  • need UV
  • quiet, vibration free environment
  • many need cool rest period during winter
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Young terrapin housing

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§ Aqua-vivarium
§ Basking light
§ Heated water
§ Decent water depth
§ Filtration or lots of cleaning
§ Separate feeding area
Basking area with heat and UV

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Adult terrapin housing

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§ Secure pond
§ Greenhouse?
Ability to adapt and hibernate but wouldn’t in the wild

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Tortoise housing

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Need a large grazing area in the summer, not a tiny pen

Rotate grazing to avoid build up of parasites/regular testing: roundworms

Separate accommodation for adult males and females

In the wild they hibernate for a few months in winter

In UK controlled short hibernation (maximum 3 months)

Extended autumn and spring indoors

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Largest land tortoise

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African spurred tortoise

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Second largest land tortoise

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Leopard tortoise

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Tortoise that can bend part of its shell

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Hinge back tortoise

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Flat looking tortoises

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Pancake tortoises

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American box tortoise

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  • semi tropical
  • front and back can close
  • terrepin descended but land based
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red and yellow foot tortoises

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  • terrepin descended
  • tropical so need heat
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Anura

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Frogs and toads

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Urodeles

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Newts and salamanders

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Housing amphibians

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Terrestrial/aquatic/both?
Correct temp range?

  • live food may breed in vivarium
  • poor ventilation
  • poor routine disease/parasite control
  • need to quarantine new specimens
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Indian stick insect housing

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  • well ventilated enclosure
  • tall enclosure
  • on the floor are faeces and eggs
  • eggs slow to hatch
  • can get fungal based problems

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