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• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ve seen a vet do this to a rat at the vet who was very much only interested in climbing

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  it definitely doesn’t hurt the mouse, maybe they’re a bit uncomfortable but it’s just all-round the best solution for everyone involved

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  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Uncomfortable?!! No. I’ve had plenty of those serotonin potatoes as pets and they love tight spaces. A Sputnik-House is made for 2-3 rats.

    Well, 7 can fit in there, the 8th just had the head in there.

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Best solution would be to not use antiquated systems for testing for human consumption, a method that isn’t even that indicative of how it would react to a human anyway.

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    • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Rats are cool for testing cancer. You feel a lump the size of a pea in the morning, call the vet, and by the time you have an appointment in the evening it’s grown to the size of a pecan.

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    • Narauko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You will never get human trials for anything that hasn’t passed animal testing until we have lab grown human organs/organ systems, but that is a ways out and also somewhat controversial. Coning partial people or parts of people needs a lot of safeguards.

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      • wabasso@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Curious if you’re thinking of any cases where we’d need a safeguard for any parts of the body other than the brain? Like would a whole human minus the brain be OK?

        I guess there’s the whole identity theft and impersonation side of things.

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• JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And they probably grab the rat by the taip and beat the shit out of it.

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  • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yeah! animal testing only exists to cause harm! outcomes are irrelevant - science gets off on beating up animals and THATS why animal testing exists… those sadistic pricks

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    • JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I didn’t say it’s useless, but people do enjoy beating the shit out of animals. And also some research about vulnerable minorities gets screwed over because of animal testing example: autistic mice: lead and microplastic poisoning the mice and observing their behaviour. If we fed mice a shitload of fried chicken and called them N mice, the media would be mad as shit, but of course it’s completely fine when it’s not a recognized minority.

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