How Shelter Pets are Brokered for Experimentation: Understanding Pound Seizure

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Overview

Back in the 1940s, the practice referred to as Opound seizureO became a common practice in taxpayer-funded animal shelters across the country. Whether for cosmetic testing, human or animal drug testing, medical technique and tool testing, or biochemical testing, these once-family pets are subjected to experimentation that often ends in death. While many states fail to keep accurate data, the number of pets that become victims of pound seizure easily reaches the thousands and though most citizens are unaware of the practice, it may very well be happening at their local animal shelter. Pound seizure remains a dirty little secret in American society, but the practice is moving toward extinction with the help of local citizens advocating for change at their shelter, as well as animal rescue and welfare organizations providing assistance and advocacy. Learning more about the practice, as well as alternatives, will help give readers a fuller picture of whatOs happening in American animal shelters and what they can do to stem the tide of dealers and brokers sweeping off animals to their almost-certain demise.

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When Phillips, who had once worked as a volunteer at an animal shelter, learned of the practice of pound seizure, she turned a "betrayal of trust" into action. As vice president of No Paws Left Behind and director of public policy at the American Humane Association, the former prosecutor has made it her mission to expose and fight the practice of shelter's giving or selling cats and dogs to research facilities, universities, or Class B Dealers (animal brokers licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture). Extensive research and expert opinion result is a thorough history of a little known practice "often intertwined with the legitimacy of medical research." Phillips outlines some of the ways in which seized animals can be used for research, including "the testing of medical techniques (surgical techniques or medical tools), pharmaceutical testing (human and animal drugs), blood banking for other animals, cosmetic, industrial, and biochemical." Though many organizations are phasing out the use of such testing, these sections are still disturbing. Taking readers methodically through the facts of the issue, Phillips hopes to not only create awareness but also advocacy, and provides a bounty of practical resources for anyone who wants to take action.
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American Association For Laboratory Animal Science
The target audience of this book is the lay public. However, laboratory animal professionals, administrators, and scientists would be well served to read it in order to better understand the public's perception regarding the use of shelter dogs and cats in research.
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Animal People
By far the best researched report on pound seizure to appear between book covers.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781442202115
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
  • Publication date: 9/16/2010
  • Pages: 248
  • Sales rank: 1,198,681
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Allie Phillips is an author, attorney and advocate for the protection of animals and vulnerable victims. She is a former prosecuting attorney who has worked for the National District Attorneys Association where she launched the National Center for Prosecution of Animal Abuse. She was previously employed with American Humane Association as the Vice President of Public Policy and Vice President of Human-Animal Strategic Initiatives. Allie is a nationally-recognized expert on issues involving animal protection and advocacy. She is a volunteer with King Street Cats (Alexandria, VA) and Vice President of No Paws Left Behind. She co-founded Michiganders for Shelter Pets, is a council member of the Michigan State Bar Animal Law Section, on the steering committee of the National Link Coalition, and a Practitioner Member of the Shelter Animal Reiki Association. To learn more, please visit www.alliephillips.com.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Part I DISCOVERING THE SECRET

1 Introduction 3

2 What is Pound Seizure? 11

3 Laws and Legislation on Pound Seizure 21

4 Betrayal of Trust 39

Part II THE FACES OF POUND SEIZURE

5 Exposing Dealers Who Violate the Law 59

6 Experiments Conducted on Shelter Cats and Dogs 69

7 Alternatives to Animals in Research and Education 91

8 The Victims and Survivors of Pound Seizure and Pet Theft 99

9 The Voices of the Research and Educational Communities on Random Source Cats and Dogs 111

10 Shelters and Pound Seizure 125

11 Voices of the Advocates to Stop Pound Seizure 135

Part III TAKING ACTION

12 Lawsuits, Threats, and Intimidation 165

13 Effective Advocacy Techniques 173

14 Conclusion 185

APPENDIXES

Appendix A Laws 189

Appendix B Federal and Michigan Pound Seizure Bills 193

Appendix C PCRM Medical School Charts 210

Notes 213

Bibliography 225

Index 231

About the Author 237

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  • Posted December 18, 2010

    Do you know where your pet is?

    Twenty-two states have no laws limiting the seizure, sometimes called "release," of animals from pounds or shelters as of this writing. Nine states leave it up to each shelter to decide whether to relinquish animals to Random Source Class B dealers (those who do not deal in animals raised especially for research) for re-sale to industry or universities or not. In the rest, except for Minnesota and Oklahoma, which *mandate* pound seizure, meaning that it cannot be denied the dealer, you can feel safe. I was unaware that when I adopted one kitten from a home and took in another that had been abandoned at our doorstep in Montcalm Co., Michigan, in 2002 that I was saving them from a short life in a laboratory. Until recently, they would have been sold, along with other unwanted or even kidnapped pets, to be used in various experiments and then killed, perhaps painfully. Phillips documents the cruelty of dealers who see adorable dogs and cats as merchandise, and establishes that many of those pets that are killed after experiments or surgery lessons die needlessly.

    She cites studies showing that the public does not want animals they turn over to shelters out of mercy or must surrender when they can no longer care for them to be treated inhumanely, experimented on, and then killed. People state overwhelmingly that they would not financially support shelters that allow these practices. Yet, in many states they continue, in spite of public outrage. "Now is the tipping point," she says, when public awareness can lead to a total ban on the practice. Drug experiments are not necessarily valid when performed on animals, as the failure of some recent new drugs has shown; vet students can perform surgeries, including neutering, for free, and return animals to owners or shelters rather than "putting them to sleep."

    This is the book for you or your activist friends to read. This is something we can fix.

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  • Posted October 25, 2010

    I highly recommend this excellent, well-researched book

    This book was very well done. Well documented and researched. We must educate ourselves about pet protection issues to keep our pets safe. Dogs and cats can end up in research before their owners can find them, even with proper I.D. There are some sad parts, but if you care about the safety of your four legged family member, this is a must read book.
    I learned alot and feel more empowered now do work to stop pound seizure.

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