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History of the RatLoft™
N. J. Benevenga, a nutritional scientist in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, invented the RatLoft™ in 2003.

The campus Animal Care and Use Committee was insisting that researchers purchase shoebox cages as a means to reduce abrasions on rats’ feet. The alternative he created has a perch which nearly every rat used. Dr. Benevenga was so impressed with the results he published an article about the invention in TechTalk.

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