Sentences with phrase «sometimes painful procedures»

«The letter, which comes in response to an aggressive campaign by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), claims that for more than 30 years researchers at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) have been «removing [macaques] from their mothers at birth and subjecting them to distressful and sometimes painful procedures that measure their anxiety and depression.»»

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This often causes PTSD, and it's because of witnessing the baby experience multiple painful procedures and due to the fear and feelings of helplessness and sometimes guilt or poor treatment involved.

The minimally invasive test could reduce the need for the sometimes painful and risky procedures involved in sampling tumors, particularly those that reside deep within the body.

In light of such findings, it is hard to see why veterinarians don't spend more time and effort recommending alternatives to declawing than these painful and sometimes debilitating procedures.

Not only is the declaw procedure itself extremely painful (the AVMA categorizes pain from a declaw as severe, and some veterinary researchers claim it can surpass the pain of both neutering and spaying), but the pain can last for years — sometimes even for the lifetime of the cat.

Since onychectomy is a painful procedure which can sometimes take up to a year to fully recover from, it is common for cats to develop an incorrect association between the pain they feel and their litter pan.

But many of the procedures that kids with medical complexities must endure, including blood draws and injections, medical infusions, tracheotomies and ventilators, are invasive — and sometimes painful.