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UPDATE: Under New Ban, NIH-Supported Research Ends Use Of
Random Sourced Cats
2/8/12 - National Institutes of Health (NIH), the main funding arm of U.S. biomedical
research, published plans to
"transition from use of
Class B cats." As of
October 2012,
a ban on cats from random source dealers (B dealers) takes effects.
Pound Seizure: Each year shelter animals are purchased by dealers and sold to research and
education sites for
use
in excruciating procedures. Class B dealers also amass dogs and cats from free-to-good home ads or
employ
bunchers to steal
them from yards and cars. Behind a lab's locked doors, they are gone forever. It is impossible to track an
animal after he or she undergoes toxic dosing, invasive surgery
and other experiments. Kinship Circle's Profit From Misery pushed for
legislation to end the sale of companion animals to research.
Use of Class B animals is astonishingly irresponsible, given ongoing innovations in animal-free
research. Some
Congressmembers agreed and
prompted a National Academies of Science committee to further investigate. A 2009 report, Scientific and Humane Issues in the Use of Random Source Dogs and Cats in Research,
concluded that NIH-
financed
studies do not need dogs and cats from Class B dealers. The report also recognized the unscrupulous
nature of dealers,
known for Animal
Welfare Act violations. Frustratingly, the 2012 rule to end use of USDA Class B cats does not extend to dogs.
NIH opted to
postpone a ban on dogs
until 2015.
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Dear Representative and Senators:
Congress can help save thousands of companion animals like Bo Obama (or like your own
furry family members) by proposing legislation that
outlaws the sale of random source animals to biomedical research, product testing and
education. Your swift action can spare cats and dogs
from invasive surgeries, toxic dosing, pain, loneliness and death inside a
laboratory.
Controversial class B dealers buy animals from shelters (pound seizure), free-to-
good-home ads, and other "random sources" for lucrative
sale to research facilities. Some employ "bunchers" to steal dogs from yards and
cars. Any shelter that engages in pound seizure with a Class
B dealer has forsaken its role as a refuge for lost or surrendered animals.
I respectfully ask you to introduce legislation that ends the sale and shipment of
"pets" to research centers nationwide. In a recent study from
AnimaLearn, a nonprofit working with teachers and students to achieve quality humane
science education, 52% of reviewed universities utilize
dogs and cats in life science, veterinary, and medical instruction.
This is astonishingly irresponsible, given strides in in-vitro cell technology,
computer automation, and innovations such as the simulated
immune system Modular Immune In Vitro Construct (MIMIC). Old-fashioned animal
research keeps the U.S. out of sync with global progress.
Researchers at Brown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and elsewhere
have begun to replace animals with complex
microtissues made from cultured cells. Brown's Jeffrey R. Morgan, medical science and
engineering professor, led a team that assembled cells
three-dimensionally to replicate live human organs. This human-centric approach not
only yields data more relevant to people, but also cuts
costs to confine, feed, dissect and discard animals.
Random source Class B dealers are notoriously inhumane, yet our laws let them profit
from the misery of gentle animals. Congress not only
has the power to shut them down, but to also restrict the publicly despised practice
of pound seizure. I strongly urge you to advocate
legislation that protects companion animals by banning class B dealers and pound
seizure.
Thank you,
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Dying To Learn: Investigation Reveals
Supply Line of
Dogs and
Cats in
Higher Education
The American Anti-Vivisection Society
Victim of Pound Seizure: Meet
Cruella (E6993)
Every year, hundreds of animals in shelters
become victims
of
pound seizure, as they are
purchased
by class B dealers who then sell them at an enormous profit to research and education
facilities,
where
they are used in invasive and painful
experimental procedures. Such was the case with Cruella, a shepherd cross found in
Carson City,
Michigan, wearing a purple collar and chain,
indicating she was once someone's companion. Considered a stray, Cruella was housed
in pen 20 at
Montcalm County Animal Control until
relinquished to R&R Research, a class B animal dealer, and became known simply as
E6993. Later,
traveling well over 1,000 miles with 13
other dogs, E6993 was sold to the University of Florida, where veterinary students
named her
Cruella.
While there, over 7 months, she was
sedated or anesthetized 7 times, often for hours at a time, and used in medical
training
procedures,
including endoscopy, abdominal surgery,
and ultrasound exercises… READ REST
OF CRUELLA'S STORY
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