It's so hard to imagine that not all dogs are spoiled little creatures that play in a park and sleep on a bed like mine!

I hope that any testing that is done is only absolutely necessary, not for cosmetics, and the animals are given excellent living conditions. As long as pressure is kept on companies to stop animal testing that goal should get closer to being realized. What about research for cures to diseases? From what I've read it seems necessary and every prescription drug has to go thru dog then on to monkey testing before human testing and final approval.