[Ellie May]

Actually, I believe at least one company did use Yorkies to test one of their foods. And no, I don't have a problem with it. Comes down to this. I'm selfish and I want MY dogs to be okay. So I will accept that a company tests on dogs that are not MINE. MY dogs have enough problems and don't need to be guinea pigs.

So it would be okay if your pup desperately needed a new drug and it wasn't tested on other animals? You'd be okay giving it? I certainly would not. The problem is an animal has to try the product. There is no way around that. Macines and cadavers don't work for that sort of thing, unfortunately.

That is Iams and may not represent what other food companies are doing. You can look at the studies done by these companies and that will give you a good idea about if they are using only non-invasive techniques.

Because of the extremely cruel treatment of farm animals, I no longer choose to support the industry. I think it's incredibly cruel. And I think people choose to look away because they like meat. IMO, that is a much bigger issue than making sure a food product is safe for the nation's dogs.

Some dogs, somewhere test every product. Unless I think that doesn't pose any thread to my babies, then I choose to let some other dog do the trial just as I would choose to pick a heartworm drug partially based off of studies that involved injecting drugs with heartworms and then euthanizing them. For ME, I have to keep MY dogs safe first. And if I want good drugs to be available to them that are actually tried and if I want a food available for them that I know isn't going to kill them within six months, then I don't believe there is any choice but to accept animal testing.