Pound seizure is the sale or release of cats and dogs from
a pound or shelter to a research, testing or educational facility.
It is hard to imagine that dogs and cats are still being
used as expendable tools in lethal experiments. It is a difficult fact
that some of these animals were once accustomed to life in a human home
and are now confined within a laboratory cage. Three states in the
U.S.�Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Utah�still legally require that publicly
funded shelters and pounds provide dogs and/or cats to institutions for
experimental or educational purposes, and other states allow it. Several
states have no law either way. In some states, the shelter cannot make
surrendered companion animals available for adoption, but must instead
provide them directly to the institution requesting animals.
This horrible practice is a small, but troubling facet of
the animal experimentation industry.
AAVS | Ban Pound Seizure
http://www.banpoundseizure.org/home.shtml
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