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Anonymous
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LOL!
Actually, I worked in a veterinary clinic for five years during high school and college, but thank you. I always appreciate it when people make very generalized assumptions.
Many laboratory animals undergo routine operations, as researchers need data at many different stages in the research process, not just "beginning" data and "ending" data. They are definitely not always "dead."
There is a fairly large gap, even in the iniest patients, between a lethal dose and an effective dose of anesthetic. A veterinarian will tell you that surgery on a small patient is "riskier" to help cover his ass. Statistically, that risk factor is negligible. I personally assisted in probably close to a thousand surgeries performed during my tenure on animals sized from hamsters to mastiffs, as well as having close to fifty surgical procedures performed on my own animals, as I bred rats, natal rats, and gerbils for many years. I never witnessed a single animal die in a surgery that wasn't already critical to begin with (internal bleeding from severe trauma, bloat, etc) with the exception of an African grey parrot and a cat.
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