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Dogs Used In Research This website was originally created in 2008 to help end our county's practice of pound seizure at our local shelter.  Since then, we have won our fight and convinced our county commissioners that pound seizure is a bad practice.  But unfortunately, issues still remain.  Animal cruelty seems to be rampant in our society today.  Our shelters are over burdened with too many unwanted, cast off pets.  We will use this website to advocate for our companion animals.  We will fight against animal cruelty, we will stress the importance of spaying and neutering, we will stress the importance of adopting from local rescues and shelters, and we will continue our fight against pound seizure.  It ain't over til it's over!

We can't stress enough the importance of spaying and neutering your pet!  Thousands upon thousands of animals are killed every year in shelters.   Here are some links to low cost spay and neuter clinics in Michigan. West Michigan Spay and Neuter Clinic Animal Hospital of Lowell C-SNIP Low Cost, Reduced Cost Spay Neuter Clinic

Two counties in Michigan sell or give shelter pets to a Class B animal dealer. Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone? We fought long, we fought hard, and we finally convinced our commissioners to end Montcalm County's long standing contract with a Class B animal dealer, putting an end to the county's practice of pound seizure.  Click the links on the left to read about our fight and our eventual victory!  However, our fight is NOT over yet! Mecosta and Gratiot counties are the two counties remaining in Michigan who practice pound seizure. Shelter pets are sold or given to class B dealers for use in experiments and research.  The dealer often takes the most adoptable animals.  These animals, once trusting family pets, are much easier for the researchers to handle. A group in Mecosta county is fighting the practice and have a petition for you to sign to help their cause.  Sign the Petition

What is Pound Seizure? Pound seizure is the practice of releasing or selling lost, stray, or abandoned cats and dogs from municipally funded animal shelters for use in biomedical research, product development, safety testing, and educational demonstrations.  Animals from shelter, commonly called "random source animals", are used to practice surgery by medical and veterinary students and are then euthanized.  Hundreds of dogs and cats taken from shelters are used every year in painful or long-term experiments or programs.   What is a Class B Dealer? Class B Dealers are brokers who acquire animals that they sell for profit to research facilities.  The animals are used in the pharmaceutical industry, the cosmetic industry, at certain medical schools and veterinary hospitals for training.  Most of the animals are put through painful experiments and testing only to be euthanized after the experiment is over.  Class B dealers get their animals from "random sources" such as auctions, flea markets, "free to good home ads" in the paper, or if you're in one of the two counties who practice pound seizure, from your local animal shelter.

The Voice of the Voiceless I am the voice of the voiceless Through me the dumb shall speak Till the world's deaf ear be made to hear The wrongs of the wordless weak. Oh shame on the mothers of mortals Who do not stoop to teach The sorrow that lies in dear dumb eyes The sorrow that has no speech. From street, from cage, from kennel From stable and from zoo The wall of my tortured kin proclaims the sin Of the mighty against the frail. But I am my brother's keeper And I shall fight their fight And speak the word for beast and bird Till the world shall set things right. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox