Look what they're doing to dogs in my town [View All]

These are upcoming "projects" at UCSF:

Perverse Use of Puppies - Project # A1644-00961-17A: This project involves the acquisition of pregnant German shepherds in the latter stages of gestation from Cornell University in New York. The pregnant dogs give birth at UCSF, after which the puppies (20 - 40 in number) may be given drugs -prior to weaning- to cause their hearts to malfunction. All pups will be "sacrificed" by the project's end and their hearts removed for further study.

Gruesome, Scientifically Pathetic - Project # A43109-22783-02A: This project will use up to 550 dogs over a period of 3 years. Most of the dogs will be surgically implanted with pacemakers. After the dogs recover from surgery, the pacemakers will be programmed to pace rapidly, causing congestive heart failure. Other dogs will have a portion of their mitral valves torn in order to cause the blood to flow backwards, also causing congestive heart failure. The dogs will either die from the ordeal in less than 6 months or be euthanized and have their hearts removed for further study.

Another Heartless Experiment - Project - # A43109-22715-02: This project will use up to 200 dogs over a period of 3 years. The Principal Investigator is the same as the one for the above, and the protocol is similar, but with a difference in the length of time the dogs will be kept alive (at most 42 days).

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/11/1705189.php

There were several protests last month, but they are going ahead with this.

Update: http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/01/1716908.php

UCSF has been busted for animal cruelty before.

Cruel and Useless Experiments on Monkeys, Dogs and Cats at UCSF
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/11/1705192.php