“I would do it again in a heartbeat. He’s been an angel.” 💙 Lab animals find new homes through adoption:
March 16, 2020 -- George spent the first 4 years of his life in a research laboratory in Virginia."I picked him up in suburban Washington, D.C., just hours out of the research lab,” says George’s adopted mom, Gail Thomssen.
The FDA uses a variety of animals, including dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, and some farm animals, to test the safety and effectiveness of drugs,Still, 95% of all of animals in research are mice and rats bred in the lab. The agency’s veterinarians help decide which animals can be adopted, but none have been since November.Both the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs have adoption policies.
“We’re encouraged,” Goodman says, “that agencies are making this issue a priority because it is so widely supported by taxpayers, scientists, bipartisan lawmakers, and even the animal testing industry itself is supportive of lab animal adoptions.“This past July, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-ME, introduced a bill that would amend federal law to allow for the adoption of dogs, cats, primates, rabbits, and other regulated animals from all government labs.
In fact, in 2018, George and his owner were instrumental in getting bills passed in Maryland and Delaware. George was there with each governor on signing day.“These animals have proven time and time again that they can thrive in a home setting,” says Nina Wertan, program manager at the Humane Society of the United States.
“The last thing I would like to see is for our hard-working biomedical research institutions who are desperately trying to come up with treatments and cures for illnesses like the coronavirus, and who are spending federal tax dollars wisely, basically be turned into adoption agencies,” he says. “American research institutions have great adoption policies in place, but we need to let them exercise their best discretion over who, what, when, where, why, and how. Research animals are not pets.
Aubry passionately believes any pain and stress they’ve had as a result of the testing should not affect their adoption.
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