60 Dogs to be Killed at Medical College

[StealthDog]

No no, I'm in vet school, not med school! We're learning procedures we will actually *use*, unlike the med schools where they are learning about physiology on a species they won't even be licensed to practice on. I definitely don't agree with Wisconsin's med school's program.

 

[ToscasMom]

This just makes me plain old sick.

 

[misticaleclipse]

I'm sure I'm going to be the evil one here, but I don't think what LSU is doing is wrong. Those dogs are taken into the vet school, treated very lovingly by students, properly anesthetized so students can do their surgeries & are never woken up. It's a painless end for an animal that had no where to go & was going to die anyways.

While some of you I guess don't mind that your animal will be the first real live dog your newly graduated vet does a procedure on, many others prefer that a vet have more than textbook & simulated experience.

As for the practice of stealing animals or breeding animals strictly for science, well, that's a whole other cup of tea & I am definitely against it. But as far as I know, vet schools don't take in animals from puppy mills/bybs or from suspicious characters offering a litter of puppies hidden underneath a long black trench coat.

Hmmm. In a shelter when a dogs time is up they are humainly (we can hope) put to sleep.

In this situation you are saying they "lovingly" treat these animals and then put them to sleep, cut them up like they are a piece or garbage and then kill them.

Lets take a human being and say the same story shall we?
Lets say they are going to be taken off life within the next 24 hours and just cut them up so we can learn what tools we need to use before we take them off like support.

At least with the human they are dying, but it indicates these dogs are healthy.

Lets also add on the fact the the humiane socity/pound might not be trying as hard to adopt these pets because they know they will get cash from this facility? They would not have a high desire to help rescues either would they?

Lets also take a look at who this is supposed to benefit. Uh
us as dog owners, do you realy think that good dog owners
would want to go to a vet who did this while in training?
Come to think of it I might ask my vet some hard questions after reading this, because I would never support such a cold hearted person who could do this.

This is not only unecessary, it is sick.

No matter how much simulators & virtual reality programs gain in technology & whatnot, they are no comparison to actually doing the procedure on a real animal with a real cardiovascualar & respiratory systems & complete with real organs.

Then why are there ony two left that are still working on live animals?? Why, well because they use the computer programs, and then watch an operation, and then assist before they do it themselves