Machines that are meant to spin, or drive bits of metal through metal and wood at thousands of rpm are one of the (many) reasons OSHA and safety regulations exist. I am conflicted but am also curious about how this relates to animal husbandry. (Is it arm-length rubber gloves?)

Tangentally: this is why I love Sawstop as a concept and as a tablesaw brand created to display a working safety mechanism.

Yeah, about that... toolguyd.com/cpsc-sawstop...

Yeah, I saw that. Iirc, it was going to be a push to make sawstop mechanisms required, so people would stop losing fingers/hands to them. IIRC, Sawstop was going to relinquish their patents on the mechanism once the rule was implemented. www.cpsc.gov/About-CPSC/C... A loss to us all really.

Most of my knowledge/experiences are with pets and exotics (rather than farms/zoos/bigger critters), so the most common situation I've run into is with rodents (improperly grabbing a rat by the tail to pick it up, for example).

Gotcha.