Quit funding random source cat studies in 2012 WASHINGTON D.C.––The National Institutes of Health on October 1, 2014 discontinued funding experiments using dogs obtained from “random sources,” meaning pounds, other animal shelters, and bunchers commonly called “Class B dealers.” The NIH cessation of funding for research “is in response to a 2009 National Academy of […]
How Shelter Pets Are Brokered for Experimentation: Understanding Pound Seizure
by Allie Phillips Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc. (4501 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706), 2010. 220 pages, hardcover. $34.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton American Humane Association director of public policy Allie Phillips has in How Shelter Pets Are Brokered for Experimentation written by far the best researched report on pound seizure to appear between book covers […]