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Re:The emotional toll of caring for research animals by DangerousPie on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:11PM (#35158734)
To study cures for cancer you need to induce the exact type of cancer you are trying to treat in dozens of identical animals that are as similar as possible to humans, and do so in a reproducible way. suggesting you could just go and work with any old animal that happens to have some sort of cancer is incredibly naive.
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Re:The emotional toll of caring for research animals by jjtheblunt on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:25PM (#35159000)
Who mentioned humans?
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Re:The emotional toll of caring for research animals by gowld on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:41PM (#35159249)
You were vague, so readers used the most probable parse: that the dogs were used for human-medical research.

Anyway, pet owners aren't lining up to volunteer their pets for experimental treatments, so researching dog cancer on random sick dogs isn't a great model either.

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Re:The emotional toll of caring for research animals by jjtheblunt on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @11:09PM (#35163292)
Some subset of owners of sick pets DO enroll pets in experimental treatments, which i know from a life among animals. In a personal case, the results amazed the oncologists.
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