How Shelter Pets are Brokered for Experimentation
Author | : Allie Phillips, attorney; animal Advocate; Master-Teacher Energy Healer for Animals; author of How Shelter Pets are Brokered for Experimentation: Understanding Pound Seizure and Defending the Defenseless: A Guide to Protecting and Advocating for Pets |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2010-12-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781442202139 |
ISBN-13 | : 1442202130 |
Rating | : 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Pound seizure or pound release involves a shelter selling or giving away cats and dogs to research facilities, universities, or Class B Dealers (random source animal brokers licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture) to be used for experimentation that often ends in death. This book offers an overview of the problem of pound seizure, and its history, and provides practical tips for how anyone can become an advocate to end pound seizure in their community, while protecting oneself from legal attacks from Class B Dealers and the research community. With personal stories, firsthand accounts, and vivid examples, the author relays the seamier side of this practice and offers a plan for ending it.