Dalmatian Named Queenie Dies in Unlawful Experiments at Wayne State

[EnglishLady]

Warning - very distressing


PCRM | Dalmatian Named Queenie Dies in Unlawful Experiments at Wayne State

Queenie and many other dogs have endured traumatic heart-failure experiments at Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich. These experiments violate the Animal Welfare Act, argues a Petition for Enforcement filed by PCRM with the federal government.

According to medical records obtained through the Michigan Freedom of Information Act, Queenie’s chest was cut open so experimenters could install devices inside her. After a second major surgery to implant more instruments, she was forced to run dozens of treadmill experiments with catheters protruding from her body and incisions leaking bodily fluids, causing constant pain and distress. Hypertension was induced by reduction of blood flow to her kidneys. On June 29, 2010, Queenie—a former companion animal obtained from a Michigan animal shelter—was killed in the laboratory after one of the devices broke and retracted into her body.

“Wayne State’s unlawful dog experiments should be halted and defunded immediately,” says John J. Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C., director of academic affairs for PCRM. “As a cardiologist, I know that advances in treating patients with heart failure and hypertension have come from epidemiological and clinical studies and other human-focused research methods. Using animals in heart experiments does not protect human health and inflicts terrible suffering on dogs like Queenie.”

To learn more about Wayne State’s inhumane dog experiments, visit PCRM.org/WayneStateDogExperiments

 

[greg334]

Really?

Not diminishing this issue with this article but ...

Why don't they investigate the use of cats and dogs while training doctors?

Oh why isn't there more of an outcry in this country over using beagles and poodles in drug trials?

 

[EnglishLady]

Really?

Not diminishing this issue with this article but ...

Why don't they investigate the use of cats and dogs while training doctors?

Oh why isn't there more of an outcry in this country over using beagles and poodles in drug trials?

I'm sure they were only using Queenie as an example Greg.

Inside the report is a link for further info ......


This is the link copied.

Wayne State University: Inhumane Dog Experiment Overview

For 20 years, Donal S. O’Leary, Ph.D., has been performing inhumane dog experiments to study heart failure and related diseases at Wayne State University in Detroit.

After learning more about these experiments, Mel Richardson, D.V.M., a veterinarian with more than 40 years of experience with animals, stated, “In my experience, no matter which pain-relieving agent used, dogs undergoing these procedures would be in constant pain.”

Here is a brief overview of what will happen to a dog assigned to O’Leary’s experiment “Integrative Cardiovascular Control During Exercise in Hypertension”:

Week 1: Treadmill training begins.

Weeks 2-3: The dog undergoes a left thoracotomy, and medical devices are placed on his arteries. Cables entering through his ribs and underneath his arm are fed through his body toward the heart and exit the body between his shoulders. This surgery is followed by seven to 14 days of recovery.

Week 4: Cuts are made in the dog’s neck and leg to place catheters in arteries and veins. The catheters are fed through the body and exit slightly behind the catheters from the previous experiment. A large incision is made to place more devices on the dog’s arteries. This surgery is followed by seven days of recovery.

Weeks 5-13: Control experiments are performed, and the dog must run on the treadmill once or twice per day for 35 to 45 sessions.

Weeks 14-26: Hypertension is induced by reduction of blood flow to the kidneys.

Weeks 27-30: The dog endures treadmill sessions again, now with hypertension.

Months 5-8: The dog is killed after all data have been collected.

Hundreds of dogs have been subjected to this pain over the past two decades, and it is time for these experiments to end. The story of Queenie, a Dalmatian used in these experiments, is particularly heartbreaking.

 

[layoutshooter]

How do we test these things? On people? Rats? Death row inmates? Computer work will NOT provide the answers needed.

What is the solution?

 

[scottm4211]

How do we test these things? On people? Rats? Death row inmates?

Non English speaking dock workers.

 

[Turtle]

Unless you are of a like mind, anything that comes from the PCRM you should take with grain, or rather a one-ton block, of salt. They're like PETA, and have close ties to PETA, except PETA is at least honest about what they are.

Less than 5% of PCRM members are physicians. They are a Washington, DC non-profit that mostly lobbies for legislative changes at the federal and local level. They say they are promoting, first and foremost, preventative medicine through nutritional education, and secondly, all non-animal methods in research. What they is a fanatical animal rights group that seeks to remove any and all animals and animal products from the American diet, including eggs, milk, meat, and seafood, and to eliminate the use of animals in scientific research.

PCRM has successfully duped the media and much of the general public into believing that its pronouncements about the superiority of vegetarian-only diets represent the opinion of the medical community. These people campaigned heavily, and actually lobbied Congress to enact legislation banning the Atkins Diet. Their statements and reports are not only heavily biased, but are often outright fabrications.

The American Medical Association (AMA), which actually represents the medical profession, has called PCRM a “fringe organization” that uses “unethical tactics” and is “interested in perverting medical science.”

PCRM is a font of medical disinformation. I'm not a big fan of drugs, especially drug companies, but PCRM has argued, with a straight face even, that any and allexperiments involving animal subjects interfere with and are counter-productive to new drug development, which is absurd on the face of it. PCRM even rejects the consensus of the actual medical community by claiming that animal experimentation “leads AIDS research astray and ends up producing drugs that are 100% ineffective and more dangerous than the disease.”

PCRM discourages Americans from making donations to health charities like the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the American Foundation for AIDS Research, the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, the American Red Cross, and even Boys Town. All because they support research that requires animals, in order to cure human diseases. PCRM’s multi-year crusade against the March of Dimes, which includes protests directed at March walkers, volunteers, and donors, has been reported widely.

Newsweek did a scathing investigative piece on them a few years ago. It didn't expose them as frauds, per se, but showed them to be a wolf in sheep's clothing, to say the least.

 

[greg334]

Turtle,
I somewhat understand your post but here is the problem, most of what is written in that article applies to a lot more than just Wayne State and their research.

No matter how one wants to cut the subject up by presenting the material written by one or another fringe group, the use of animals for research (in many cases an FDA requirement) is out of control and in most cases not useful or necessary by the practices that are used.

You may not agree with that last statement and may present a valid point here in the forum, but I will side with the researchers who have no choice but to follow the FDA in order for them to come up with a solution for a problem that plagues mankind - which their position they do not have to use animals for testing.

Sue, I understand what's going on. I know more than they said at Wayne State, one of the reasons I asked about the use of Dogs in training doctors, I find the practice revolting.

 

[Turtle]

No matter how one wants to cut the subject up by presenting the material written by one or another fringe group, the use of animals for research (in many cases an FDA requirement) is out of control and in most cases not useful or necessary by the practices that are used.

I don't disagree with that at all. It is out of control, and as you say, not even necessary in many cases.

The problem is when fringe groups lie and distort information in an effort to eliminate all of it, even the research that's beneficial and necessary. If groups like this had their way, open heart surgery would be only a fantasy. The PCRM actually tried to prevent the airing of the 2003 PBS documentary "Parters of the Heart" which was about the famous "Blue Baby Doctor" Dr. Alfred Blalock and his black assistant/partner Vivian Thomas (a brilliant surgeon and surgical teacher, despite never having gone to college), and the resulting HBO movie "Something the Lord Made", because it chronicled the pioneering of modern open heart surgery, and their work in hemorrhagic and traumatic shock, which saved thousands of soldiers during the war. The problem? They used dogs in their cardiac research.

 

[layoutshooter]

I understand all the emotion, what is the solution? How do we learn? Trial and error? Tens of thousand of wounded soldiers are alive, both here and in England, due to wound studies done of live pigs several decades ago. Which is worse? Dead soldiers or dead pigs?

 

[LisaLouHoo]

How do we test these things? On people? Rats? Death row inmates? Computer work will NOT provide the answers needed.

What is the solution?

I have a brother-in-law up for grabs. He doesn't know it yet, though. We just have to tell him we're taking him to an Aerosmith concert, he'll jump right in the car. My sister will get over it in about 3....2....1....
"Bruises fade and bones will mend-but a psyche can be ruined FOREVER" : LisaLouHoo, c. 2008

 

[layoutshooter]

I have a brother-in-law up for grabs. He doesn't know it yet, though. We just have to tell him we're taking him to an Aerosmith concert, he'll jump right in the car. My sister will get over it in about 3....2....1....
"Bruises fade and bones will mend-but a psyche can be ruined FOREVER" : LisaLouHoo, c. 2008

LOL!!! I am SURE that most of us have family members that we would GLADLY "donate" to the research. I know I do.