Save Shelter Animals From Research
Dogster member Carol barked this to me, it’s Michigan’s disgusting practice of selling animals in shelters to brokers who sell the animals for research.
Right now in Michigan, shelter cats and dogs are allowed to be bought for experimental research. The animals are then euthanized.
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Companion animals depend on humans for their safety and well-being. Tragically, this dependency is betrayed when shelters allow these pets to be taken by Class B Dealers for resale to research.
When Class B dealers (animal brokers) and research facilities can obtain cats and dogs from animal shelters, it diminishes the shelters’ credibility and purpose, and betrays public trust.
We have a chance to change this. Please sign today to support Michigan House Bill 4663 >>
Thank you for helping animals today.
Sincerely,
Emily
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Thank you so much for posting this!! We have to speak out for the ones that cannot. What is the world coming to!!
I live in Michigan, and have heard from many rescues about this practice. So disgusting.
what kind of shelters are they? are they county/city run? are they supported by donations? just palin SICK, but as I always say, any society that kills it’s unborn has no respect for ANY kind of life.
First torture then death…is that what is in store for humans next??? WAIT! stem cell research….need I say more?
We really need to stop practices that cause animals pain. Much of the animal “research” is NEEDLESS on top of it! Much of it is duplication…much is just curiosity.
I am NOT a PETA kind of person, I firmly believe that human rights take precedence over animal rights.
BUT
Animals do have the right to at least DECENT treatment and respect for their being. I remember quite clearly as a child being taught about what “dominion” over the “animals” meant. It meant fulfilling the responsibility of CARING for your animals. It meant doing no harm to them, even if they were food animals, they were NEVER to be harmed or tortured. God help any kid around my grandfather’s farm who ever got caught being mean to an animal….and my grandfather actually killed and butchered those animals for food. THEY WERE NOT PETS…he had dogs as pets…
Kind of reminds me of a friend who served in the military, posted in Korea, on the border. The North koreans really DO eat dogs…and as he put it, “they are/were the meanest folks he’d ever seen, “they would cross the street just to kick a dog”. Somehow those values seem to have spread this way, instead of our western culture spreading there.
I do know that there are people all around out here in the hinterlands that believe dogs do NOT belong in the house, they should be housed outside in a kennel…all day(and night) everyday. it is a small step to regard a poor creature treated ion this manner as a possible object to take frustrations out on.
We really need to rethink what the requirements for having a dog should be…not merely another means of collecting cash for the town (license fees).
What exactly do they do to these animals? Im definitely against it if they abuse and eventually kill these helpless animals…
-Jack