You can't have just one guinea pig – Swiss law requires having at least two, as they are social animals. For lonely guinea pigs, there are even “companion rental” services.

The Swiss toy market recorded a 1.2% year-on-year rise in sales to CHF521 million ($575 million) last year, according to a ...

Swiss animal welfare organisations plan to launch an initiative to ban the import of certain animal products such as foie gras, frog legs and shark fins after a bill to the same effect failed in ...

To this end, it has adopted the ETH Zurich Policy on Animal Experimental Research. The Swiss Animal Welfare Act definition of animal experiments covers experiments on living animals to investigate, ...

During a routine examination of our department's animal husbandry unit, we found a female Swiss albino mouse with an extremely distended abdomen (Fig. 1). This 6-month-old mouse, which was ...

According to the Swiss Animal Welfare Legislation, the minimal enclosure area for macaques of the size of rhesus or cynomolgus monkeys for experimental purposes is 15 cubic meters. In such an ...