For the dog lovers among us.
Ugh, I don’t know if I can watch.
I love beagles. :(
Count me amongst them
So much so I really don’t want to read this or view pics/video.
The people who work with these same dogs year after year often grow very attached to them and they are regularly adopted as pets after their time of service.
They make lousy pets usually, but for the people who rescue them - it isn't about how great a pet they are - it is about giving back to a trooper who gave all he could give for science.
I am getting teary eyed just thinking about it.
I work with dogs in research sometimes and I can tell you that down there they all LOVE OUR DOGS!!!!
those dogs look in great physcial shape....bright eyes...no noticiable scars or scabs...doesn't look like their muscles have atrophied....
I think maybe this story has a lot of embellishment....
.dogs left in "cages" for their entire lives wouldn't look like these dogs IMO....
and its lovely that animals can be adopted out, but what was the cost of flying them to the US?.....don't we have some starving human children we could rescue somewhere in the world....
we had our beegle mix for nearly 18 yrs....they are a wonderful pet....I love dogs...just think this story is suspect and colored in a certain way...
Sweet.
If they’ve never been out of their cages, how can they even walk? You would think their muscles would be atrophied.
‘The downfall is, the same reason the beagle is a perfect companion animal, is the same reason they’re used for testing.’
“Companion animal” is animal whacko speak. The correct word is PET.
Nothing but needless and unspeakable cruelty to animals.
Just imagine how people look when freed.
I appreciate the link and the story Nachum but I can’t do it. Dogs and cats mess me up that way.
As a beagle owner, this had me very teary-eyed.
As a dog lover myself, I’m not buying a lot of the BS rationalizations certain “apologists” in this thread are selling. How remarkably sad.. A beagle, a dog bred for game, a loving companion, being kept for life inside a lab? While you go home to your pets (those who have them) to let them outside to run in the yard, or to take them for a walk where they can smell other dogs, roll in the grass, and do other things dogs love to do. You seem to think it’s enough that they were well-fed and don’t *appear* physically abused.
The idea that testing on such docile, companion animals because it “serves the greater good” could come straight from the communist manifesto, IMHO. We are supposed to be more conpassionate than that.
Our little lady died two winters ago of tick fever. We have had four Beagles in nearly 60 years.
We kept her cleaned and kept treatment on her all the time. She hunted day and night, she lived to hunt and kept the 40 acre hill hopping. You could hear her out at 2 o’clock in the morning but we tried to keep her up to give her some rest.
She could clear the window sill in my Dodge truck she got so excited when I drove in.
She captured the heart of everyone she met and our vet stayed with her for two full days to try to save her.
Every time I have lost one of these friends I say I’ll never have another.