Thursday, January 25th
Last week, I went to my very first protest. My ma found out about it from the Wisconsin Humane Societies website. Apparently, the Medical College of Wisconsin is one of two college in the States to still do medical testing on dogs. At first, I was a little uneasy about it because I don't think animals, in general should be tested on... but then I found out what really happens...
I was told, and it was displayed on some of the posters handed out, how dogs are have the front arms tied down to their sides, and give anesthesia to the point that the are a little bit numb, but can feel even pain and are still awake while the professors and their students open them up and move stuff around to "understand" what's going on in the body.
A lady next to us told us that one of the people they get dogs from is a man who breeds hunting dogs, and these particular dogs just won't hunt.
I am beyond disguisted with the use of any animal put under the knife to just be disposed with like they were nothing to begin with. Animals have just as many feelings as humans do. I just wish more people felt the need to speak out about this enough that it would completely change the system.
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Will you keep protesting? Do you think that your group made any difference?
I have a dog in my family, and would never harm her. But what about that question of medical research -- is there anything to the "greatest good to the greatest number of people" argument? Or is just morally wrong to ever do such research?
I think that if there is a cause out there that I like, I would keep protesting. I've volunteered at the Wisconsin Humane Society since last March and have come to realize how amazing it is that dogs find a way to communicate to you without using words. It mite sound odd, but they bark different when they just want attention or went to the bathroom in their cage.
In general, I believe testing on animals is wrong, but the 60 dogs that MCW is using is just in-class work to see how a living thing operates. I guess if the thousands of other colleges out there has found a way to work around doing this, MCW can as well.
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