Critter News

MARCH 18, 2010

Jeff Rowell, NIRC director, in an e-mail Wednesday} "said the nine remaining animals are being housed as a family group at the center with access to indoor-outdoor caging. The animals have not been and are not currently being accessed for biomedical research,” Rowell said." Interesting. Let's make this as clinical as possible.

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Animal Person

JUNE 2, 2009

Daniel Engber, senior editor at Slate , has posted the first of a five-part series about animals used for research. Pepper was a beloved family pet. A Dalmatian, stolen and sold for research, she was likely terrified and probably in enormous pain when she was killed, a couple of weeks after she was taken.

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JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper? I addressed this one last week.

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