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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  How do you suggest we test? First of all, dogs don't necessarily hate kennels, and kennels can be humane. Also, if a food isn't giving a dog proper nourishment, it's much better that they would be learned in a clinical environment where they are constantly checking blood samples and doing tests. At home you might not learn that the dog is severely malnourished until it's too late. I would hope the labs would be filled with dog lovers who ensure that dogs are being treated appropriately. I think we all should be against inhumane experiments, but not all experiments are inhumane. If the lab doesn’t test, you are the experimenter. |
By it's very definition, how can a kennel be humane? A visit once or twice a day from a worker is no substitute for regular human interaction. We would never, ever say it's ok to stick a bunch of kids in kennels so we can test whether or not Coco Puffs is good for them. Why are animals so different? A kennel, even one well staffed, would not be providing real-world situational data.
In all honesty, how is a clinical kennel really any more humane than a puppy mill. And just where do you think these kennels get their subjects from?