Live Cats Used in College Medical Training


	Live Cats Used in College Medical Training

Rustee

5-18-2009 7:28 PM

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college, texas, animal cruelty

Rustee says:

The school could easily adopt better, more humane training methods, a PETA spokeswoman said. Most universities use human-like manikins instead of animals to practice life-saving procedures, PETA Research Associate Ian Smith said.
PETA studied medical training methods at hundreds of universities, Smith said, and TTUHSC is the only one he is aware of that still uses cats, he said.

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5-19-2009 3:34 AM

JackieDel

Disgusting! Poor cats. :-/

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