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Shelter Strays Used as Lab Animals

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Montcalm County has taken a step towards ending its relationship with an animal research facility. The county has a contract with R&R Research in Howard City to euthanize the county's unwanted animals. In return, the company can use some of the unwanted dogs for animal research.

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Utah's Shelters Providing Strays to Labs for Research

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University officials say they only collect animals from shelters willing to participate and pound animals are steered toward nonlethal experiments. Tags: animal research animal shelters strays.

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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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