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    Animal Adopation

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    Upon arriving at the animal shelter, each animal is critically evaluated for health concerns. Initially, they are taken to the veterinarian to receive an official health evaluation and up-to-date immunizations. Upon return, the each animal will be placed in quarantine for a week to ten days to ensure that it is not infected with the deadly Parvovirus, which is easily transmitted among dogs and cats. Parvovirus is a viral disease that rapidly attacks an animal’s body, usually leading to death if

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    Animal Testing, what is it? On dictionary.com the definition for animal testing is, “noun; The use of non-human animals in research and development projects, esp. for purposes of determining the safety of substances such as foods or drugs” So what does that tell us? That Animal testing is okay, and a good thing for scientific research, right? Well in some cases, using lab rats is for a good cause, to test things out and see what’s cures what, but companies such as Loreal, L’Oréal, Maybelline, Windex

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    Animal testing has become an increasingly controversial issue since the 1980s. This has been the case especially in the cosmetics industry, where esthetic value rather than necessity is at the core of the industry. Since information regarding the often unnecessarily cruel practice of animal testing has become public knowledge, many activist groups have targeted the industry to pressure manufacturers into stopping practices that have been deemed unacceptable. While some of these efforts have met with

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    and creatinine require at least a day to show a response after an injury which results in a delay of therapeutic intervention. Biomarkers for renal ischaemic injury could be monitored in the blood or urine. Therefore, another crucial goal in IRI research is to find reliable and predicted biomarkers that related to an injury. IRI challenges with conducting clinical trials The clinical trials performed for pharmacological agents in renal diseases such as kidney transplantation, acute kidney failure

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    medicine and further training in the imaging aspect of radiography (Doctorly, 2014). Radiography in animals is essential because they are unable to communicate their symptoms as humans can. To appropriately diagnose and treat an immense amount of medical problems found in animals it requires some form

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    testing this plague is never going to end. Some of the main reasons why we should stop buying products that they use animals for testing are because of the physical pain they cause to the animal, animals’ rights are violated when they use them for research and, the mental damage you cause to the animal if they survive. In the first place, the physical pain you cause to the animal goes above than a hundred. Most of these animals die because of the several damages they suffered when they are tested

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    mouse, Algernon, went through daily tests that displayed his artificially increased intelligence; that is, until his foreseen but nonetheless tempestuous plummet in health (Keyes, Flowers for Algernon). Animals should not be used for experimental research potentially harmful to them because it is unnecessary with our advanced technology, expensive, and testing is often followed by misled

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    Testing has been practiced since BC by Greek scientists to experiment and understand the mammal anatomy. Today, animals are used as research during the developmental stages of drugs, cosmetics, and household cleaners. Animals ranging from rodents to monkeys to cats and dogs are being experimented on a day-to-day basis. Since technological advancement in research and medicine has increased throughout the past decade, many citizens and scientists question whether animals are still necessary for

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    study certain diseases, transgenic animals have been developed to have a particular gene that Many consumer products and medical treatments are tested on animals before being distributed to the public. Experimenting on animals for various reasons is a practice that has been used for hundreds of years. But is it right? Although many of these experiments have led to medical breakthroughs, a considerable amount of these tests have failed as well, causing unexpected side effects and death. The large

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    Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and in vivo testing, is the use of non-human animals in experimentation. Statistics reveal that, each year over 100 million dogs, cats, rats, mice, ferrets, hamsters and monkeys experience physical and emotional torture due to scientific practices. During these barbaric, outdated tests animals are forced to inhale or swallow large amounts of substances that are often toxic, or have their eyes forced open, so chemicals can be

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