Every 3 seconds an animal dies in an American research laboratory. At Ohio State University, that equates to 9 animals killed every hour of every day of the year.
Eight of those will be a rat or a mouse, the other could be a hamster, rabbit, primate, cat, or dog.

Animals arrive via truck from dealers. A large majority of the animals arrive from companies which
specialize in the selling and breeding animals for animal research. Ohio State University buys a variety of
rodents from Harlan Sprague, dogs from Marshall Farms, and cats from Liberty Labs. Primates generally
are received from Battelle Memorial Institute, located next to OSU. While some dogs are from purpose-
bred dealers the large majority arrive from a class “B” animal dealer. This can be the person who answers
the “free to good home” ad placed in the paper. Robert Perry, Mt. Sterling, is the dealer of choice for OSU.
He buys hunting dogs from the community.
Running for their lives. That’s what the dogs used in George Billman’s experiments have been doing since
the 80’s. The focus of his research has been mechanisms responsible for ventricular fibrillation induced by
either myocardial eschemia or cocaine toxicity. His funding for the cocaine toxicity was halted, but not
until after he had killed hundreds of dogs. Results from his cocaine dogs did not provide anything of
significance that was not already known from human studies. Today Dr. Billman continues to artificially
induce heart attacks in his dogs, by exercising a dog on a treadmill, then mechanically occluding a major
coronary artery. A paper he published in 2002 says that it’s a good thing and okay for humans to exercise
after a heart attack. Hmmm, isn’t this something we already know? Maybe but Dr. Billman continues to
receive funding from the National Institutes of Health and receive dogs from Robert Perry, the latest
arriving January 27, 2003.

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Every 3 Seconds An Animal Dies In An American Laboratory