[Yorkiemom1]

In addition to what ChaCha and others have pointed out, most vet schools have all the cutting edge technology and the equipment to teach procedures with. You have specialist all congregated under one roof in a vet school. I know what A&M does with animals, and even if it is a "teaching facility", they provide the best medicine and treatment around. I think it is like a teaching hospital....our Medical Center here in Houston is the largest medical center in the world, and every hospital is a teaching hospital, and is responsible for the finest medical care and most advanced research in the world. Patients that come here from all over the world, know they are not used as "guinea pigs".....they are benefactors of the very best, most current, cutting edge medicine and research available. If it exists, it more than likely came from this medical center. I can completely understand your fear of your baby being treated as a learning tool, but you have the best vets teaching and doing research in vet schools around the country. Grads of these vet schools usually stay close in touch with their alma maters and they are always learning from and along with ideas that are being continually formed and researched and proven and then dissiminated all over the country.... They are researching "fecal implants" in some schools to treat colitis and other disruptive bowel diseases.....this research is being done for humans and on a lesser degree right now, as well as animals....vet schools are great and you have some truly magnificent treatments and procedures and research coming out of vet schools!
"Teaching facility" is not a bad word!