A Deadly Study For Animals

[lizbud]

Couldn't they use already injured dogs in this study? This
method is as stupid as it is cruel. I want to congratulate these
future Vets. for their good sense & their compassion.


http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20031231_1072.html

[magcpen]

Why do they need to kill the dogs?! I agree, why don't they use already injured dogs (and not kill them)?! How will causing more injuries prevent injuries?! How could someone convince themselves it's right to do this?!

Go protesters, go (cheesy as that sounds)!

Grrr!

[tikeyas_mom]

That's so terrible. The only thing I could think of the entire time was how Iams does the exact same thing.

[clara4457]

This is especially disturbing for such a well regarded school.
Lizbud - you are absolutely correct, they could have easily used animals that already have existing fractures for their study. What is so frustrating is the total disregard for the life of the dogs. It is totally unnecessary and inherently evil.

Would they break people's legs, fix them differently and then put them to sleep once the study is over. You don't kill people to save other people, so what could possibly make it acceptable for animals?

Burns my boat

[trayi52]

clara, I agree with what you said, I was thinking the same thing as I was reading the article. How did they further the studies on humans? Did they do these little experiments on them?

I just can't see the purpose in killing the animals to find answers. We aren't usually dead when we break a bone. I broke my foot earlier in 2003, glad they didn't decide to put me to sleep to see if it was healing properly, they just took x-rays. Go figure.....

[G.P.girl]

i don't even know what to say about it. it just make sme so mad that some people have such total disregard for anything that's not humans life. why they can't use dogs with already broken bones like people who can't afford a doctor can sometimes go to colleges adn have students do it for cheaper. sick people.!#$!%$#%#

[smokey the elder]

They don't need to kill the dogs to see how the bones heal. Why not use xray or MRI??

Good on the future vets for taking a stand. Maybe this kind of teaching is what changes some vets from compassionate people to biomechanics.

[Pam]

Originally posted by lizbud
This method is as stupid as it is cruel.

[lizbud]

Tufts University Vet School is not the only University that
use live homeless dogs for studies like these. This is the first
case I've read about that talked of the open objections of some
vet students to this practice. And it was published by a National News group like ABC. Behind the scenes there has been an
ongoing debate for years now between Vets, researchers and
the whole medical community concerning using live animals as
research/study tools for supposed human or animal enrichment.

[iceyshiver21]

I read the first two paragraphs and was sickened.

[CathyBogart]

Good for them for standing up against such procedures! Hopefully it will make an impact! There ARE many better alternatives out there, in fact I wrote an eight page paper on alternatives to vivisection for my final English paper this semester.

[IttyBittyKitty]

Their justification is that so many dogs suffer broken bones as a result of traffic accidents etc, that it is necessary to preform these cruel experiments. If there are that many dogs out there with existing broken bones and so many people who would be too poor to treat them, why not kill two birds with one stone.........

Honestlly, some experiments are just cruel to be cruel.

[lizbud]

Originally posted by WolfChan
Good for them for standing up against such procedures! Hopefully it will make an impact! There ARE many better alternatives out there, in fact I wrote an eight page paper on alternatives to vivisection for my final English paper this semester.

Good for you WolfChan. I'd like to read it sometime.Do you
have it in pdf format to share? As I said earlier, there is an
ongoing & very exciting dedate going on in medical/research
circles & hopefully this practice will be a thing of the past. The
sooner the better IMO. In medical studies & especially pet food
studies, there is absolutely no need to kennel dogs for months
in isolation , bleed them, & then in the end, kill them when the
studies have ended. Maybe they are reluctant to change because
there seems to be a seemingly endless supply of dogs available
to use like this. It's just very cruel & unnecessary.

[Cheshirekatt]

Actually in other countries they do perform this type of experiments on people.

I once worked closely with a docor from China who was appalled to find out there was a waiting list for organ transplants. Apparently in China when someone needed say a kidney they'd simply take a prisoner, shoot him, and harvest whatever they needed.

Keep in mind that most of the 'prisoners' there aren't guily of much of anything.

[dukedogsmom]

This makes me sick