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She was blind from testing by putting drugs in her eyes. Get out your tissues.....
No reason to still be doing animal testing.
samnsara
(17,622 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)bdamomma
(63,849 posts)poor thing. I hate these people.
Coventina
(27,120 posts)Last edited Wed Oct 16, 2019, 07:56 PM - Edit history (1)
Animal testing, no matter the species, is cruel.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,346 posts)A case could be made to also allow testing if DNA from Mnuchin, Pompeo, Ross, or DeVos can be matched.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)what happened with using mice.
StarryNite
(9,445 posts)Think how many Echos there are and there is NO reason to still be doing animal testing. I'm so happy for Echo and her new family. Finally she knows what it's like to be loved.
MineralMan
(146,308 posts)The Beagle Freedom Project rescued 9 of them and adopted them out in Minnesota. My wife, who had been supporting the organization had also applied to foster one of the lab beagles, so we got Sam. They call him a "failed foster," since we adopted him right away, and he's been with us now, ever since.
He has no physical ill effects from the experiments done on him, but still has psychological issues. For example, he will not go down the stairs to our basement, nor will he let us carry him down there. We think the lab may have been in a basement.
No information about what was done to him is available. He has a number tattooed inside his ear, though.
He is a sweet doggie, with a very mild disposition. We're glad we were able to add him to our family, where he is loved and overfed.
Here's Sam:
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,346 posts)MineralMan
(146,308 posts)It took him about a month to relax with us. We got him in the Winter, and he would absolutely not go outside. It was pee pads all the way until April. Then, we leashed him up, carried him outside (he wouldn't go out the door) and off we went for a walk. He was totally amazed at being outdoors. Now, he gets two walks a day and has a dog door in the back wall of the house into our fenced back yard.
He loves children and women, but is nervous around men, so he probably has PTSD connected with men. He and I get along fine, but he still barks at me when I first come upstairs from my basement office.
We also have a beagle/basset mix and two cats, and Sam gets along great with them all. He's a good dog!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,346 posts)The first dog I remember was a (mostly) beagle. He was a community dog; every day he made the rounds in the little town -- pop. 500 -- to check for biscuits at back doors. Toddlers could wallow on him and pull his ears and he never complained.
Bayard
(22,073 posts)Glad you found each other.
PufPuf23
(8,776 posts)There should be a law curtailing or at least greatly restricting the use of beagles for lab animals.
Karadeniz
(22,516 posts)Inhumanity are especially glaring. Thanks!❤
Duppers
(28,120 posts)Glad sweet Echo has a happy forever home now.
The kind of torture as Echo endured that caused her blindness must stop. 😭😡
Just got an email this morning from PETA re: stopping this testing here:
A "look at how PETA scientists, researchers, and campaigners are stopping deadly experiments and making historic progress for animals condemned to laboratories."
https://us.e-activist.com/ea-action/enclick?ea.url.id=313176&clid=10003&ea.campaigner.email=NWhXGNQHwyNciKJ%2FsfowiJku6OPFCMj%2F&ea.campaigner.id=jswyQTvejh0=
Duppers
(28,120 posts)"After decades of PETA campaigns and after collaborating with PETA scientists,...
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is now planning to end experiments on mammals, through the most comprehensive animal testing reforms ever introduced by any federal agency."
But this, unfortunately, doesn't stop China from continuing such testing as they did on little Echo.