Category Archives: Donations

Why Weight Project Update

Posted in: Academic Weight Study, Case Studies, Donations, Projects, Why Weight? | May 28, 2020 at 5:06 pm , by Stacy Winnick

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The ROUS Foundation has collected capybara weights since about 2007. The lack of available data regarding capybara weights inspired us to collect as much data as possible. We were lucky to have a number of cooperative owners and quickly amassed enough data to determine the range of normal capybara weights...

Capybara Weight Study Goes Academic

Posted in: Academic Weight Study, Donations, Projects | October 19, 2018 at 2:27 pm , by Melanie

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The ROUS Foundation is starting its first academic research study! This is a big step for us. It has always been our goal to help all captive capybaras lead longer, healthier, and happier lives and this study will be a major advance toward that goal. This project will be through...

Blog Paws Donation!

Posted in: Donations, In the News | May 17, 2014 at 4:23 pm , by Melanie

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Last week (May 8 – 10, 2014) was the annual BlogPaws convention. BlogPaws is a community of people who blog about and for pets. This was the fourth year of my attendance, basically for my blog Capybara Madness. It’s always been a really fun time, pet people are the best...