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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not inherently opposed to animal testing, but I am opposed to animal cruelty. It's clear that some of these facilities charging $1000 for test dogs aren't providing proper housing, sanitation and care for their animals.

You don't have to be cruel about it. [/quote]

One of my family members did their PhD research (medical field) in a lab that used dogs as test subjects.  The dogs were all from the pound, slated for euthanasia.  The people who worked in the labs were all dog lovers and took teh dogs out for walks and play time and treats.  My family member ended up adopting one of the dogs and it lived for another six years as their pet.  (The dog ended up serving medicine again, as it had a rare cancer in its old age—because its owner was in the medical field, they had the dog in a trial treatment that was being attempted in dogs before potentially being used for humans.  It was not something that would increase suffering but had the potential to avoid an amputation.).

Anyway. I’m sure there are awful dog experiments gojng on.  But medical researchers at universities are pretty heavily regulated by the ethics commissions (which is one of the things that I think the Trump NIH rules are trying to cut via the overhead caps), and some of the dogs are treated about as well as they are in the shelters.[/quote]

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