Shelter Animals Go to Research

Lots of people think that shelter animals that aren’t adopted are euthanized or if they’re in a no-kill shelter, they remain their for their rest of their lives. News is this may not always be true.

Five U.S. states require shelters to send un-adopted animals to research facilities. So if those homeless kitties or doggies aren’t adopted in Minnesota, Oklahoma and Utah, they’re sent to research facilities where they’re often subjected to all sorts of tests. In Iowa and Ohio, un-adopted animals are shipped off only if a research facility makes a request.