subpart_subject: "Specifications for the Humane Handling, Care, Treatment and Transportation of Rabbits"
section_number: "3.58"
section_subject: "Classification and separation."
cfr_reference: "9 CFR 3.58"
title_name: "Title 9"
title_subject: "Animals and Animal Products"
parts_covered: "Parts 1 to 199"
revised_date: "Revised as of January 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of January 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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Animals housed in the same primary enclosure shall be maintained in compatible groups, with the following additional restrictions:
(a)Rabbits shall not be housed in the same primary enclosure with any other species of animals unless required for scientific reasons.
(b)Rabbits under quarantine or treatment for a communicable disease shall be separated from other rabbits and other susceptible species of animals in such a manner as to minimize dissemination of such disease.