Rehoming: sharing-information platform

Facilities who rehome animals have processes in place to ensure good practice and to comply with local regulatory and ethical requirements. Many of these processes are species-specific and can be daunting for the first-timer. Sharing information on such processes may help the establishments new to rehoming and it could also inspire others, trigger discussion and collaboration, stimulate creativity, and improve practices further, all to the common goal of better animal welfare. From this webpage, you can receive information on rehoming processes, such as socialisation protocols, SOPs on preparing the animal to the outside world, transport conditions, screening of suitable homes, meeting the new home's owners in a staged process, Ethical Committee / Animal Welfare Body / Local Competent Authority approval schemes, forms to discharge animals from the laboratory animal regulation, follow-up systems after rehoming etc.