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Utah's Shelters Providing Strays to Labs for Research

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They say cats and dogs at the lab get excellent veterinary care and survivors are placed into a volunteer-run adoption program. Tags: animal research animal shelters strays. University officials say they only collect animals from shelters willing to participate and pound animals are steered toward nonlethal experiments.

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Economic Troubles in Portugal Lead to More Abandoned Animals

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From the Portugal News Online.sad stuff. Figures released by the National Veterinary Authority, Direção Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária, show that in the Lisbon area alone, a total of 5,629 stray cats and dogs were caught last year, up from the 4,442 caught in 2010.

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University of Utah Continues Getting Bad Press

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Researchers told the Tribune that the testing gave the shelter animals "a second chance at life," while records obtained by the Tribune revealed that the labs had killed 116 of the 190 strays last year. Only 74 animals survived the research process to be adopted out as pets.

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