Sentences with phrase «laboratory use of dogs»

Public opposition to the laboratory use of dogs has continually grown in the last few decades.

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Dogged investigation by a non-profit online media organization in Texas has revealed that between 2003 and 2007, the state quietly gave hundreds of newborn blood samples to a U.S. Armed Forces laboratory for use in a forensics database.

In a meeting sponsored by the National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies» Institute of Medicine in Washington, D.C., Fan and 15 other experts in the field described the benefits of using pet dogs with naturally occurring (rather than laboratory - induced) tumors in early cancer drug trials.

From the start, though, the use of dogs for violent laboratory experiments disturbed a bourgeois sensibility that associated them — or at least the purebreds — with family and the comforts of domestic life.

Dogs homozygous for this mutation (MDR1 - 1 delta) display an ivermectin - sensitive phenotype, developing severe neurotoxicosis after a single dose of ivermectin.22 When ivermectin is deemed necessary for a dog, testing for the MDR1 - 1 delta genotype before its use is available through Washington State University's Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology Laboratory (http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/vcpl/).

This 6 - month laboratory study supports the safe use of Onsior Tablets for Dogs at a dose of 2 mg / kg / day for the labeled 3 - day duration.

To be sure of a diagnosis of dog lumps on skin, the veterinarian will take a sample by using a needle to remove some of lump for study in a laboratory (fine needle aspirate).

But some pets aren't as fortunate and wind up in the terrifying world of «Class B» dealers, people who buy dogs and cats and keep them in holding facilities before selling them to laboratories where they are used in harmful experiments.

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We all abhor the use of highly evolved animals like dogs and monkeys for laboratory and medical testing.

Thousands of animals, including dogs and cats, are currently locked away in laboratories where they are being used for research and testing.

In 2014, according to USDA data, the number of dogs used in U.S. laboratories stood at 65,153 (a decline of almost 12 percent from the prior year).

Job Description: • Represents the Kansas City Pet Project in a professional, polite and enthusiastic manner • Assists the veterinarians on a daily basis with preparing surgery patients, health assessments, and treatments of animals • Assist in medical rounds with Shelter Veterinarians or identifying animals that need to be seen by a Shelter Veterinarian • Administer medications to both cats and dogs in accordance with veterinarian's prescribed doses and ensure all treatment protocols prescribed for sick / injured animals are performed timely, safely, and humanely • Responsible for following best practices for sanitation protocols in all veterinary clinic and isolation areas to reduce / eliminate disease transmission • Input all medical notes, health assessments, vaccinations, surgeries, treatments, etc., into PetPoint • Provides support for other departments, such as Intake, Foster, Placement & Transport, or Adoptions by assisting as needed for vaccinations, deworming, blood draws, etc. • Prepares and sanitizes surgical instruments / packs each day to ensure packs are ready for use the following day • Assists with discharging animals to the public post-surgery or following up with sick pet appointments, explaining any medical issues, medications, after care instructions, etc. • Ensures adequate medical supplies and medications are available and reports any shortages to Vet Clinic Manager • Enforces and maintain KCPP safety and cleanliness, and all health and security rules and procedures • Follows disease prevention procedures and completes cleaning of veterinary clinic areas daily and ongoing throughout the day to decrease biological risks to humans and other animals • Care, feed, and safely handle animals to avoid injury to persons / animals • Properly store and maintain inventory of medical supplies, including Schedule II narcotics • Performs laboratory analysis techniques to assist Shelter Veterinarians • Reads, understand, interpret, and apply department policies and procedures • Prepares reports and other written materials in a logical, concise, and accurate manner • Functions calmly in situations that require a high degree of sensitivity, tact, and diplomacy • Communicates effectively with a variety of individuals representing diverse cultures and backgrounds and function calmly in all situations which require a high degree of sensitivity, tact and diplomacy • Treats employees, representatives of outside agencies, volunteers, and members of the public with courtesy and respect • Provides prompt, efficient and responsive service for all phone calls forwarded to the Vet Clinic.

Petaluma, CA — North Bay Canine Rescue — Dedicated to rescuing dogs from crisis situations, some of which include euthanasia by animal shelters, neglect and other forms of abuse, or «free to a good home» ads, which result in dogs being bounced from one home to another, or being acquired by animal brokers («bunchers») and sold to research laboratories where they are used for testing, then discarded («cruelty industries»).

Some of these situations include euthanasia by animal shelters, neglect and other forms of abuse, potential use in research laboratory testing, or use as bait for the training of fighting dogs.

While it is virtually impossible to know or estimate how many cases of heartworms can be prevented by the use of the Double Defense approach, it is quite obvious from our laboratory study that the number of infected dogs and the number of worms per infected dog would be greatly reduced by this approach.

Each year tens of thousands of dogs, mostly beagles, are routinely used in animal research in laboratories across the world.

Lai says his team will be able to «batch produce» customized dogs through cloning and gene - editing, which in addition to possible military and law enforcement uses, would create an endless supply of dogs for use in laboratories by medical researchers.

Farm raised dogs were frequently used as surrogates and egg cell donors as that industry came into existence — not to produce meat, but to allow bereaved pet owners to get laboratory - made duplicates of their dogs.

The researchers, using $ 200,000 in seed money from the University of Washington, plan to use pets, not laboratory animals, for the initial study, and recruit volunteer dogs — or at least dogs whose owners volunteer them — for larger scale studies in the future.

Dr. Maria Esteve - Gasent, an assistant professor in the CVM's Department of Veterinary Pathobiology (VTPB), and doctoral student Joseph Modarelli, in collaboration with the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (TVMDL), developed the tool, the TickPath LayerPlex, using a molecular technique that allows the researchers to determine if causative agents from tick - borne diseases are present in a dog.