This data is from a protocol using hamsters. Below is a breakdown of their usage per year.

Note that 40% will simply be killed.
20 males - Founders of breeding pairs
20 females - Founders of breeding pairs
60 male pups - Returned to breeding colony
60 female pups - Returned to breeding colony
80 females - Used as stimuli for male tests
900 males - Used in main protocol
820 females - Euthanized
1960 Total hamsters/year

OSU conducted xenotransplantation experiments (1999-2001), transplanting a pig kidney into a baboon.
The criteria for success of xenotransplant was never met and funding was halted. But not before the
baboons suffered horrible deaths from rejection of the organ.
Recently approved projects will use primates, in a pilot study to produce carpal tunnel syndrome; for training in islet transplantation; to investigate a peptide vaccine; and for implanting microelectrodes to learn about brain communication.

Michael Podell, DVM, has left the building, but with new investigators Mathes/Neff receiving monies from
NIDA, we continue to monitor the “cats on meth” experiments. Forty-two cats were killed, yet Podell’s
published paper is all about cell-culture work.

In a status report required by NIDA, Podell writes that the cat studies did not show what was seen in the cell studies. The reasons why were already known:

• interaction of other immune cells to decrease viral dissemination,
• lack of continuously high concentration,
• and the presence of blood-brain barrier to decrease viral entry into the brain.

Any use of new cats would show OSU will do anything to animals no matter what the relevance to human health.