Comments on: THE EFFECTS OF CRYOPRESERVATION ON THE CAT, Part 1 http://chronopause.com/index.php/2012/02/13/the-effects-of-cryopreservation-on-the-cat-part-1/ A revolution in time. Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: chronopause http://chronopause.com/index.php/2012/02/13/the-effects-of-cryopreservation-on-the-cat-part-1/#comment-3835 chronopause Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:46:23 +0000 http://chronopause.com/?p=1309#comment-3835 If I recall correctly, 3 sources: pound seizure (http://www.idausa.org/facts/poundseizure.html), class B USDA dealers and in a couple of cases, relinquishment of companion animals to us for research (pets) that were scheduled for euthanasia . This was 30 years ago and the culture and the law were in very different places than they are now. Whilst pound seizure is still technically legal in many locales, virtually no research animals come from this source today in the US. Instead, such animals are simply killed and often rendered into soap, as this allows the “shelters” to recover some of their costs. And that’s a lot of soap since ~3-4 million dogs and cats are destroyed in the US each year (http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/pet_overpopulation/facts/overpopulation_estimates.html). No one in the doggy and kitty Dachau industry will fess up to the end use of the carcasses – however, many of the intermediaries in the disposal chain ultimately sell the carcasses, rendered or not, to China . Stray and feral cats, in particular, constitute a source of tremendous ecological damage; in Australia they have wrecked the avian and small reptile ecosystems. In the US, it is estimated that ~ 1 billion birds are killed each by domestic cats – a disproportionate number of which cats are abandoned, allowed to roam free, or are feral. — Mike Darwin

]]> By: Gabi Ford http://chronopause.com/index.php/2012/02/13/the-effects-of-cryopreservation-on-the-cat-part-1/#comment-3831 Gabi Ford Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:10:06 +0000 http://chronopause.com/?p=1309#comment-3831 Mike, Where did you get these cats?

Gabi

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