WEB-058A: Barbering and ulcerative dermatitis (compulsive fur-or-whisker-pulling, and compulsive scratching-and-chewing respectively) are pervasive health and welfare concerns in laboratory mice. The management of both is hampered by many widely held myths. For instance, barbering is not a normal “dominance behavior”, and mice are just as likely to pluck their own hair as that of their cage mates. More pointedly, ulcerative dermatitis was considered essentially untreatable until recently, precisely because the behavioral cause of these characteristic skin lesions was unappreciated. In fact, both barbering and UD appear to be highly similar compulsive behaviors. This webinar will cover their underlying biology and etiology, their management and treatment, their scientific and welfare impacts, and their role as spontaneous animal models of trichotillomania and excoriation disorder respectively.
Participants in the live webinar said they liked:
- The solutions! And the behavior pre-screening method. Low tech, but highly useful and so easy
to implement.
- Challenged a lot of the popularly-held tropes about UD and barbering, and added current and
novel findings to the subject.
- Very deep dive into the science behind barbering/UD...
- We have some barbering in our building, [and] it pointed out things we would of never thought of...
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