ANIMAL TESTING Should Be Banned!
Animal Testing and the end of animal experimentation.
RESCUE THEM!
ANIMAL TESTING: Has Your Lost Dog Just Been Sold to a Research Lab? Can it be Rescued?
“Every year in Canada, industry research facilities purchase thousands of pet dogs and cats for experimental purposes.” – Animal Alliance of Canada.
It’s been a long battle.
“It started in Britain. In 1840, Queen Victoria gave her full support to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. And with women like Mary Tealby. Who — after opening a temporary dog shelter in an abandoned stable — founded the much-honoured Battersea Dogs’ Home. And Frances Power Cobbe, who fought valiantly to establish the revolutionary Anti-vivisection movement.”[1]
And the battle against Human cruelty to animals is still going on…
It’s impossible to know the exact number each year. At least three million animals are subjected to experiments in Canadian labs. Where they endure pain, distress, and often, death in the name of research. Not all labs are required to report victims of animal testing.
They just buy them from numerous sources. The animals — including former pet cats and dogs — end up being wheeled into buildings with barred windows.
Incarcerated for life. Attached to wires and tubes. And crucified on steel lab tables. Unless they’re rescued!
“Over 110 million animals die in U.S. laboratories used for animal testing every year. Their deaths are painful. As lab animals subjected to testing are often immobilized, mutilated, and exposed to toxic substances.” – The Regulatory Review
With recent moves south of the Border to end animal experimentation, even more pressure is on Canada to finally do the right thing.
Our Great White North is the only nation in the Free World not taking action at the federal level to protect animals in Research labs.
We’ve done a great world-level job at protecting our endangered species in the forevergreen Wild. Now we need to get into the cold, soulless, scientific, stainless steel Labs!
Animal Alliance of Canada is a national animal advocacy organization. It steadfastly opposes this continued reliance on animal testing. And is particularly focused on ending the use of pets in research facilities.
The Animal Alliance’s “No Pets in Research” campaign has existed for decades. Fighting to stop lost and surrendered companion animals from ending up in research laboratories. The practice of selling or donating shelter pets to laboratories remains legal in Ontario. It’s the only province that explicitly mandates it.
Animal testing: As a result, research facilities move more than 5,000 lost or abandoned dogs and cats from Ontario pounds each year.
In fact, over 25,000 pet dogs and cats were sent from Ontario shelters to labs over a recent five-year period. Once these pets disappear into the world of animal research, they’re lost. It’s nearly impossible for families to find out their fate.
Animal Alliance warns that beloved family pets are instead being used as test subjects behind closed doors. They should be returned home or adopted out.
“World Day for Animals in Labs is a stark reminder that countless animals, including our pets, suffer behind laboratory doors,” said Lia Laskaris, CEO of Animal Alliance of Canada.
“We started the No Pets in Research campaign decades ago.”
“Doing direct rescue of animals destined for research labs. Because no one should ever lose a dog or cat and later discover they were sold to a lab. These animals are cherished family members, not disposable research tools. We’ve been working to end this cruel and outdated practice. And we won’t stop until it’s banned once and for all.”
Animal Alliance of Canada is also shining a light on the broader issue of oversight and accountability in animal experimentation.
The organization released a report scrutinizing the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC). Which is the national body responsible for overseeing the use of animals in science. The findings are alarming.
Canada and Animal Testing.
Canada is the only G7 country without federal laws regulating animal experimentation, relying instead on the CCAC’s voluntary guidelines.
Animal Alliance is encouraging the public to take action. You can support the No Pets in Research campaign by visiting Animal Alliance Canada – Campaigns. Join the mailing list for updates. And spread awareness of the issue.
Beagles are frequently used in research due to their docile nature and breed size.
Several organizations like The Beagle Alliance and Beagle Freedom Project are actively involved in rescuing dogs, particularly beagles, from testing labs. These organizations work to liberate animals from testing facilities, provide them with medical care, and find them loving homes.
Lab Dogs HAVE been freed. More imprisoned Lab Dogs WILL be freed! It just takes Human Compassion…
“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.” Saint Francis
If You Love Dogs, SEE: CANINE CONNECTION: Why Is The Dog Human Bond So Strong? Wolves to Dogs.
About Animal Alliance of Canada & Animal Testing.
Animal Alliance of Canada is a not-for-profit animal protection organization founded in 1990. For over 30 years, Animal Alliance of Canada has campaigned on behalf of animals of all species. Including cats, primates, guinea pigs, rabbits, rats, mice, birds, fish, ferrets, cows — and others.
From lobbying for legislative change — to public education. And grassroots campaigns. Animal Alliance works to protect wildlife, companion animals, lab animals, and farmed animals. They do it through constructive advocacy and electoral action. See Animal Alliance Canada.
[1] SEE Women Pioneers of Animal Rights: from Mary Tealby & Nell Shipman to Ingrid Newkirk & Laureen Harper.
For more information, See “Dogs are still used in toxicology studies. In these tests, animals are force-fed or injected with large doses of a chemical that can slowly poison them…” Dogs in Laboratories
ANIMAL TESTING Has Your Lost Pet Just Been Sold to a Research Lab?
NOTE: I’m composing this post on Victoria Day Weekend. Queen Vic was 21 when she gave her Royal support to the animal rescue movement. Over the next 61 years of her life she had many companion dogs. These included Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, Greyhounds, and Collies. She passionately spoke out against muzzling, tail docking, and ear cropping dogs. And Vivisection.
SOURCE: Animal Alliance of Canada, GlobeNewswire & Civilized Bears.
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