thought of the day 2009 08 20 - lab animals

I'd like to suggest that we use new and different animals for testing. It's important to understand how things effect animals beyond white mice and rhesus monkeys. For example, laboratory puppies. It's been suggested that every time you watch Fox news a puppy dies. But how do you test that hypothesis without a lab full of cuddle puppies that might get maimed? And laboratory pandas could be used to test the effectiveness of new forms of color dyes. And some laboratory baby beluga whales could be used to test the efficacy of drift nets as pertains to fisheries destruction. These are important scientific concepts which demand new lab animals.