Artifact # 5: WHERE DO THE ANIMALS COME FROM AND WHERE DO THEY GO?

ANIMAL TESTING: Where Do the Animals Come From?
2005. ASPCA. http://www.animaland.org/asp/realissues/testing4.asp

• Most scientists buy the animals from animal dealers: Class A and Class B licensed dealers
• Class A Dealers: can only sell animals that they have bred
• Class B Dealers: can sell animals that they get from respectable places, some can pick up strays off of the street
• 31 states, Class B dealers can take animals from shelters and sell them to laboratories
• "In five states (Iowa, Minnesota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Utah) shelters are required to surrender animals to any class B dealers who ask for them."
• "14 states have passed laws making it illegal for animals in shelters to be sold for research. These states are Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, and West Virginia. It is illegal in all 50 states for stolen animals to be sold or used in research. "

ANIMAL TESTING: Where Do They Go After the Research Is Done? http://www.animaland.org/asp/realissues/testing5.asp

• Most animals are only used for one experiment, but could be used for more
• Most animals don't live their whole life in the lab
• Some are euthanized after being used
• Euthanize: To kill a human or other animal as painlessly as possible
• "Animals of all ages are used in research, so an animal may be euthanized soon after (or before) it is born, or it may live for its entire life and die of natural causes."

Questions

1. Instead of wasting drugs to kill the animals, why don't they find ways to put them up for adoption?
2. For dealers who get animals from shelters, do they have to wait a certain amount of days until they can get the animals or do they just take them that day?