Handling and Restraint

• manual, chemical, and mechanical


  The three categories of restraint are
• freezing, escaping, attacking


  How do cats respond to fear?
• Acrylic rodent restrainer and forceps


  What are two mechanical devices used to restrain rodents?
• Strong back legs can inflict severe scratches


  Why are rabbits difficult to handle?
• delicate skeletal systems


  Why are rabbits easy to injure?
• Halters, leads, lip twitches, hobbles, stocks and blindfolds

  Equipment for handling horses
• Directly in front or behind


  Where can't a horse see?
• Head restraint and distraction


  What are the most common restraints for horses?
• beef cattle


  Which cows are more difficult to handle?
• dairy cows


  Which cattle are more easily handled?
• Chutes, halters, noseleads, hobbles, tail tying and casting ropes

  What equipment is used to restrain cattle?
• goats


  What is the most unpredictable domestic animal?
• Lifting a front leg or holding the chin


  How do you keep a goat still for examination?
• Catchers, snares, v-troughs, snubbing ropes and hobbles

  What is equipment is used to restrain pigs?
• catching nets and hooks


  What equipment is used for handling fowl?
• Hold against a solid surface


  How do you restraint fowl for examination?
• Acrylic rodent restrainer is a clear tube with holes
• Metal rod that clips to nose ring


  What is a bull staff?
• casting rope


  To place an enclosed animal on its side
• catching net


  Used to remove a bird from a flock
• cephalic vein


  Front of foreleg
• chain twitch


  Distract a horse by stimulating nerves
• halter


  Encircles head of horse for lead
• head snare


  Long metal handle with retractible wire
• hobble


  Strap around legs to restrict movement
• hurdle


  Used to direct pigs into enclosure
• stocks


  Narrow enclosures that partially immobilize a horse for treatment
• Never approach a horse from the back
• Grasp the base of the tail when picking up a mouse or rat