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Texas Tech Allowed to Withhold Info on Animal Testing

Critter News

From the Avalanche-Journal: The university has purchased cats already scheduled for euthanasia from Odessa Animal Control since the 1980s, a shelter spokesperson, Cpl. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal rescue medical research. I bet there's probably some ugly stuff in those records.

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Annual Animal Care Gala in NYC

4 The Love Of Animals

The event is to be held at Pacha on Thursday, October 22, 2009, and all funds raised will benefit the city’s broad rescue, shelter and adoption services. The animals are given shelter, vaccinated, medically evaluated, housed, and fed until they are reunited with their owners or adopted into loving homes.

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On the Freezing of Birds

Animal Person

My animal rescue-life has had many phases. Note to everyone who works with birds and water fowl: Hypothermia and rapid freezing are not appropriate methods of euthanasia and are not considered to be humane unless the animal is anesthetized prior to freezing. In other words, I may as well have doused him in gasoline and set fire to him.