Vivarium Song
(to the tune of Mary Had a Little Lamb)



You get up early in the morning, in the morning, in the morning.
You get up early in the morning, to clean some rat cages.

You go to school and clean the cages, they are smelly, they are smelly.
You get up early and clean them cages: they are very smelly.

You pick up a rat and put it in a clean box, put it in a clean box, put it in a clean box.
You pick up a rat and put it in a clean box, and then you feed and water it.

After you’ve fed and watered them, they all go back, into the room,
And then you site there and count them, and make sure none have died.

This is how you do Vivarium, do Vivarium, do Vivarium.
Make sure you count and clean the rats and they will all survive.

(written by a VET 120 student in the Spring 2002 semester)