About five years ago, I came across the puppy labs at Dalhousie. The puppies barking, yelping, crying to get out of their cages. There were so many of them in the cold cages of the basement labratory. If you are familiar with Dalhousie, they were in the basement of the "link" - the area underground that links the Sir Charles Tupper Building and the Medical School Admin building on University Avenue.

I was astonished that such a "reputable" university would still use animals testing. I did a lot of research, and was disgusted to find out the cruel experiments being done to animals at Dalhousie. Then I found out about the kittens having their eye lids sewn shut with a needle. This was just the start of the cruel, archaic experiments being conducted on animals.

They were drilling into kittens brains, sewing kittens eyes shut, cutting kittens eyes, beating dogs hearts being torn apart. Painful, cruel, archaic!!

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Dalhousie STILL does this to puppies while they are alive:

- endotracheal intubation ( tube pushed through the mouth down into the trachea )
- thoracotomy (opening of chest and heart)
- pericardotomy
- exposing of the heart
- electrical stimulation of hearts
- dogs killed after all data collection was completed
- These experiments were performed and were approved by the institutional animal care and use committee of Dalhousie University.
- This work also was supported by the Medical Research Council of Canada, Nova Scotia Heart and Stroke Foundation, and QEII Foundation, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

http://www.circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/104/suppl_1/I-115

http://surgery.medicine.dal.ca/Faculty/sullivan.html

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Dalhousie STILL does this to kittens while they are alive:

- tracheotomy (hole in the throat)
- craniotomy (skull is removed to access the brain)
- fitted with gas-permeable contact lenses on eyes
- titanium chambers cemented to their skulls !!
- exposed brains illuminated with green light
- intravenous catheters inserted
- parts of their eyes removed or cuts made to their eyes.
- spending 17 hours in a dark room with the mother cat.
- kittens killed after all data collection was completed

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.05273.x?

Pictures of the kittens dissected eye.
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/364/1515/383.full

Dalhousie SEWS kittens eyes shut and removes parts of their eye:

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/98/20/11662

http://jp.physoc.org/cgi/content/abstract/274/1/511

Other cruelties to kittens by Dalhousie University:
http://myweb.dal.ca/mitchell/Poster05.pdf

http://www.pnas.org/content/98/20/11662.full?sid=39ccd6dc-1dee-453b-b759-f4ddf0eafa21

http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/11/2/122?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=1&andorexacttitle=and&andorexacttitleabs=and&fulltext=donald+mitchell&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT
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Our TAXES go towards funding more than half the grants at Canadian Universities including Dalhousie University.




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PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION AGAINST DALHOUSIE:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-dalhousie-university-from-murdering-dogs-and-puppies

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OTHER IMPORTANT INFO :
Number of ANIMALS Used in 2006 in the Atlantic Provinces http://www.ccac.ca/en/Publications/New_Facts_Figures/table09/table09_index.htm

This is one of the forms a student can fill out for animal testing. Note the METHODS OF EUTHANASIA section - Decapitation WITHOUT Sedation or Anesthesia. ( I know a guy at Dal who used to snap the necks of mice in the lab. Dal condoned this instead of euthanasia - sicko's. He was known as the "mice killer" at Dalhousie)
http://researchservices.dal.ca/files/animalcareformA.pdf

DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY Animal procurement policy states that dogs and cats must be purpose-bred and be obtained from reputable sources.
http://environmentalhealthandsafetyoffice.dal.ca/files/SOP_Laboratory_Animals.pdf


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*THIS IS WHAT DALHOUSIE IS DOING TO ANIMALS:*

http://ats.ctsnetjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/6/1769

Dog hearts:
http://surgery.medicine.dal.ca/Faculty/sullivan.html

http://www.circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/104/suppl_1/I-115

Cutting of spinal cords in living raccoons :

http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/78/6/2924
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There are NO laws in Canada to protect laboratory or research animals including dogs and cats.

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We need to get an animal rights group at Dal! Anyone who wants to get one going, let me know how I can help.
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About five years ago, I came across the puppy labs at Dalhousie. The puppies barking, yelping, crying to get out of their cages. There were so many of them in the cold cages of the basement labratory. If you are familiar with Dalhousie, they were in the basement of the "link" - the area underground that links the Sir Charles Tupper Building and the Medical School Admin building on University Avenue.

I was astonished that such a "reputable" university would still use animals testing. I did a... (read more)