{"id":17659,"date":"2011-02-21T01:16:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T06:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/17659\/animals-wind-laboratories\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T01:16:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T06:16:38","slug":"animals-wind-laboratories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/17659\/animals-wind-laboratories\/","title":{"rendered":"How Animals Wind Up In Laboratories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Advocate for Saving Dogs\u2122<\/a><\/p>\n

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How Animals Wind Up In Laboratories<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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\"International
\n<\/strong><\/strong>
\nHow Animals
\nWind Up in Labs<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Companion Animals
\n<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/span>Many
\ndogs and cats used in laboratory experiments come from companies that
\nbreed animals for research purposes. Others were once trusting
\ncompanions who simply got lost\u2013or stolen\u2013from their families.
\n<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Pound Seizure<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Animal
\nshelters in certain states are required to turn over homeless dogs to
\ngovernment-run facilities for medical experiments if they are not
\nclaimed by former or new guardians within five days of arriving at the
\nshelter. <\/span>This is commonly known as pound seizure<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Three
\nstates require pound seizure of government-run facilities: Minnesota,
\nOklahoma, and Utah. Thirteen states, including Connecticut, Delaware,
\nHawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
\nYork, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and West Virginia, forbid
\npound seizure. Most other states have no law and leave it up to county
\nor town governments to decide.
\n<\/span>
\nClass A Dealers<\/strong> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyone selling animals to laboratories or selling more than 24 dogs or cats per year at the wholesale level must be licensed. <\/span>Class A dealers maintain their own breeding colonies, such as puppy mills<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

According
\nto the States News Service, Class A dealers or breeders who choose to
\nrelease animals for research; people who donate their companion animals
\nto research; and private and federal facilities that breed animals are
\ncapable of supplying far more cats and dogs than are required by current
\nlaboratory demand.
\n<\/span>
\nClass B Dealers<\/strong> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyone
\n18 or older who is willing to pay a fee can obtain a U.S. Department of
\nAgriculture (USDA) Class B dealer license. In states that allow pound
\nseizure, Class B dealers may buy animals from pounds and animal
\nshelters. “Bunchers” are also a vital source of animals in the dealers’
\nnetwork. Using sedatives hidden in meat, females in heat, and nets, they
\nlure or trap dogs and cats. Some thieves pose as animal control
\nofficers and comb neighborhoods in vans, “confiscating” animals without
\ntags. Many bunchers also purchase litters from unsuspecting people who
\nallow their animal companions to breed and obtain animals from “Free to a
\nGood Home” advertisements. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

C.C. Baird, the largest and most
\nnotorious Class B animal dealer in the United States, purchased animals
\nfrom people using false addresses and non-existent driver’s license
\nnumbers. In March 2004, after years of efforts by animal protection
\norganizations, the USDA filed a 108-page complaint listing hundreds of
\nviolations against CC Baird, his wife, Patsy, and their daughters,
\nJeanette and Patricia.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

States News Service reports that there are
\nabout 50 “random source” animal dealers across the United States. They
\noften keep hundreds of animals in squalid conditions and give them
\nlittle food and water. These animals often are eventually sold to
\nresearch laboratories for $200 to $500 each<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Primates<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\" <\/strong><\/p>\n

Chimpanzees
\nand other primates used in US laboratories are primarily captive-bred.
\nUnwanted chimpanzees from zoos and circuses are sometimes sold to
\nlaboratories. Poachers also shoot chimpanzee mothers and take their
\ninfants for research. Many of the captured baby chimpanzees die before
\nthey reach the laboratory. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Oregon National Primate Research
\nCenter brags that it maintains colonies of rhesus monkeys, snow monkeys,
\nvervets, and baboons who were taken from the wild and\/or brought to the
\ncenter from other facilities.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>
\nFrom
\nthe jungle or savannah to the laboratory, every moment of the captured
\nprimate’s experience is characterized by sickness, despair, fear,
\nloneliness, and terror! Many primates die during quarantine and
\ntransport into the United States, with the mortality rate reaching a
\nhigh of 20 percent at one point, according to the Centers for Disease
\nControl and Prevention (CDC). Those who survive the miserable journeys
\nfrom their homes are funneled into gruesome, painful, repetitive, and
\noften pointless experiments from which few emerge alive.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rodents and Other Animals<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Colleges
\n<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Birds,
\nfrogs, pigs, sheep, cattle, and many naturally free-roaming animals
\n(e.g., prairie dogs and owls) are also common victims of
\nexperimentation. So are mice, rats, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, and
\nrabbits. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Most small animals used in laboratory experiments are
\nbred by callous companies who view animals as little more than walking
\npin cushions and test tubes with whiskers. For example, Charles River
\nLaboratories is one of the world’s largest suppliers of rats, mice,
\nhamsters, gerbils, rabbits, guinea pigs, and other animals for
\nlaboratory experiment.s. The Jackson Laboratory supplies approximately 2
\nmillion specially bred JAX Mice to major universities, medical schools,
\nand research laboratories in the world every year.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Life in a Laboratory<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Animal
\n<\/strong>Imagine living locked inside a closet without control over any aspect of your life. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>You
\ncan’t choose when and what you eat, how you will spend your time,
\nwhether or not you will have a partner and children, and if you do, who
\nthat partner will be. You can’t even decide when the lights go on and
\noff. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Think about spending your entire life like this, even though you have committed no crime. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>This is life in a laboratory for animals! <\/big><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>It is deprivation, isolation, and misery!
\n<\/span><\/strong>
\nNow
\nconsider all the specialized needs of the species imprisoned for
\nexperimentation. Chimpanzees, in their natural homes, are never
\nseparated from their families and troops. They spend hours together
\nevery day, grooming each other and making soft nests for sleeping each
\nnight. They are loving and protective parents, and baby chimps will live
\nclose to their mothers for many years. But in a laboratory, chimpanzees
\nare caged alone. There are no families, no companions, no grooming, no
\nnests. There are only cold, hard steel bars and loneliness that goes on
\nfor so many years that most chimpanzees sink into depression, eventually
\nlosing their minds. <\/span><\/p>\n

Rats and mice are denied a place to dig and
\nhide. Dogs and cats are deprived of exercise, affection, and the homes
\nthat they long for with families to care for them. Rabbits have no room
\nto leap. Pigs cannot root in the ground or build their nests. Even when
\nthe cages are clean\u2013and this is not always the case\u2013the animals are not
\nallowed to engage in any normal behavior.
\n<\/span>
\n<\/strong>On top of the deprivation,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>there are the experiments<\/big><\/strong><\/p>\n

Animals
\nare infected with diseases that they would never normally contract\u2013tiny
\nmice grow tumors as large as their own bodies, kittens are purposely
\nblinded, rats are made to suffer seizures. Experimenters force-feed
\nchemicals to animals, conduct repeated surgeries on them, implant wires
\nin their brains, crush their spines, and much more. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Think of what it would be like to endure this and then be dumped back into a cage, usually without any painkillers!<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/strong>Video
\nfootage from inside laboratories shows that animals cower in fear every
\ntime someone walks by their cages. They don’t know if they will be
\ndragged from their prison cells for an injection, blood withdrawal, a
\npainful procedure or surgery, or death. Often animals see other animals
\nkilled right in front of them!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span>One Voice<\/span><\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong>
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