#animal experimentation

[danskjavlarna]

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My collection of rats and mice, some giant, some playing while the cat's away.

#rat #animal experimentation

[mage-ical-character-person]

In honor of KinitoPET I was looking up stuff about Axolotls and…

Have a “fun” axolotl body horror fact I learned

A bunch of scientists apparently got together and decided to Frankenstein some axolotl Cerberuses or something? I don’t know don’t have the full article and I’m not sure I want to know the details

I get why learning about the crazy regeneration powers these little guys have is important and holds a lot of potential for medicine but oh my god. That’s… wow. That’s like real life scifi body horror stuff. It’s an old study probably couldn’t get away with this today but like.

#AAAAH? #I love knowledge and then I see this #animal experimentation #Ask to tag #like I don’t know this feels like it needs more disclaimers maybe but I don’t know what to put #kinitopet #“The behavior of the transplants is independent of that of the host animals” !!? Terrifying! You’re telling me both parties are like #aware? #Anyway I refuse to be the only one cursed with knowledge and axolotl horror game community might enjoy this

[weirdyearbook]

It's unclear whether they're saving the dog's life or have stolen it for experimentation.

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Healing: a collection of vintage doctor imagery.

#animal experimentation #doctor #vintage illustration #illustration #veterinarian

[shadow-is-here-and-queer]

SUBJECT 42

Fic Warnings: Child Abuse, Child/Animal Experimentation

The turtle was crawling around a junkyard. They had smelled food, they were starving. They began digging in the garbage, all four hands moving in a pattern to remove as much trash as possible so they could locate the food. They found some… horrifying looking meat, but consumed it anyway. They were so… hungry. There was the sound of footsteps, and then they felt a hand on them. They turned fast, or they tried, but they were small enough to be easily picked up by one hand. They began rapidly trying to bite whatever had grabbed them, wiggling around and kicking out with their legs as they were shoved into this… weirdly shaped box. It was filled with a gas, and everything went black.

They woke up in a blank room, which had a circular mat. They crawled over to it, sniffing at it. Their arms hurt… Looking, they saw bandages on their arms. They heard a weird shwoosh sound, and they turned to see a strange person delivering a tray of bland looking food. But they didn’t care, as they immediately began eating it. Food is food, after all. The person left, and they began looking around the room more. They scampered around, rubbing their hands on the walls and floors and making strands of webbing everywhere. They didn’t care what they were doing, all six of their eyes bright with happiness. They turned and looked at the door, seeing someone new standing there. They didn’t… understand that face, but they went back to decorating!

-

It was hell. Just one day in, and they already know what hell is. They sat in the corner of their room, staring at the bandages all over their hands. All four of their hands. They can’t make webs anymore. They can’t… they can’t make their room more cozy anymore. They lost the privileges for the bed… now they just sleep on the floor. They hated it. They hated the blades that had dug into their skin, they hated the tools that tore out their web makers… they don’t know what they're called. They shake at the memory, curling into themself.

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3,287 days passed. They hated… everything. They walked into a room, the scientists told them that they were approximately 13 years old. They don’t… know what a year is. Or how long it is. They looked at the operating table, and they were led onto it. They were tied to it and they watched as needles approached them, too close to their face for comfort. They let out a scared chirp, and the lead scientist just looked so… mad.

The next thing they knew, the fangs from their lower jaw were removed. They were quickly injected with a sedative, but before it kicked in… they felt blades and tools going into their legs. They couldn’t even scream.

Waking up, they just felt so much pain in their legs. They sat up, looked down… and their legs looked different. More like the scientists’ legs. They tried to get up to leave, but just immediately collapsed from the pain. They saw someone they viewed… nicely, at the door. They smiled, and the person helped them up. The person was the same age as them. They liked the feeling in their chest caused by them…

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A week passed, and they were now restrained to a chair with their head forced upwards. They were staring at the beaker that one of the scientists held, and as they were taking some liquid from it, they heard some of the chatter. They’re usually too drugged up to hear it… but they aren't now.

“This test will see what this chemical can do to the eyes. It is hypothesized that it could damage eyes and even skin, but this is the only thing we can test it on.”

Their eyes widened, and they began frantically struggling. One of their arms broke free, causing them to smack the beaker. All the liquid fell onto their face, onto the three eyes on their left side and onto the skin. They let out a pained screech as the chemicals burned and burned, and it felt like years before someone finally helped them. They barely remembered anything after. Just the pain…

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They were a month away from their birthday. They wanted to escape to leave, they only told their friend about their plan. Oh, they were just so ready! They even learned what their feelings were! At least, they think they know…. Love. They love their friend. They’re so happy, they’ll escape and their friend will help them and-

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Love is fake. Love is just pain and betrayal. Those were their thoughts as electricity flowed their their body, their eyes glued to their friend the scientist with the guard by them. The guard had a taser aimed at them and was smiling while shocking them. Everything was hurting. Everything was burning. They couldn’t even get up when the physical pain stopped and they were lifted from where they were on the ground. They were so close…

They weren’t fed that day.

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A year passed, and they hated how light they were. They hated all the tests. They hated everything. All of their limbs hurt, they are only given one small meal a day. And it’s all their fault… them and their stupid trust in that one volunteer. They angrily kicked the wall that was filled with dents. They screamed. They cried. They hated all their emotions now.

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Many years passed, the doctors all said they were 18 now. Great, spent 14 years of their life locked away and tested on. Fun, just amazing. They don’t even know how to talk anymore. They refused to after the betrayal. The feelings are just numb now. They stop walking to the room they were supposed to, staring at the vent. They could… they could leave. They gained the trust of the scientists…

-

They’re free! They actually did it! They gazed around the city they haven’t seen in 14 years. They let out many happy chirps as they zoomed up a building and began looking around, only to hear many gasps behind them. They turned and stared at these… four… turtles? And immediately attacked the smaller one, knocking him out with a bite before getting knocked out by a hit to the head.

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They watched the four turtles anxiously, staying on top of the fridge as they were all discussing ways to get them down. What is an Arachne… and why do they like it?

SUBJECT 42 DENISE Arachne

#rottmnt oc #my art #my writing #child abuse #child experimentation #animal experimentation

[dead-philosophy]

GORETOBER #17 - CHIMAERA

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#dead philosophy's goretober 2023 #goretober #goretober 2023 #inktober #inktober 2023 #chimaera #chimera #animal experimentation #two headed dog #science #horror art #dark art #gore art #drawtober #halloween #digital art #art #my art #artists on tumblr #I am now using Goretober to test custom brushes and no I will not be stopping

[theblindhakune]

My boyfriend's dad started debating me on the ethics of animal experimentation. It was quickly clear that he just wanted to be a contrarian and not listen to me.

"I just want to know how many mice have suffered for my benefit." Says a man in his 50s with cochlear implants, without which he wouldn't be able to hear anything at all. He spreads awareness on them so more people would get them. He has repeated this same "argument" three times by now. He has not listened to my previous talking points.

"I'm going to posit a question: would you rather none of those mice had been bred for experimentation, and for you to not have cochlear implants?" I say as a master's student in biomedicine, who has taken multiple courses on ethics and animal experimentation.

"I just think they should focus on experimenting on humans instead of mice."

"But mice are used as a preliminary measure to ensure that human experiments are safe. Sure, a mouse's life is also precious and they're medicated for any and all pain they might and will experience. They're fully taken care of."

"But I just want to know the number of mice that have suffered for my benefit."

Rinse and repeat for 45 minutes with occasional tangents and new slightly different arguments.

I started to feel humiliated and that he thinks I'm a psychopath that tortures mice for fun or without any regard for their lives. It's like I shouldn't study these things for the betterment of human life

#studying #medicine #biomedicine #animal experimentation #ethics

[stabbynunchuckss]

I have a friend who adopts retired lab rats and now my brain is combining that with all ur lab whump posts. Whumpee who was used for experiment after experiment and Lab Whumper finally runs out of uses for them. So then Pet Whumper sweeps in and takes them home and everything is so different, but it's better, isn't it? Sure, Whumpee doesn't love the collar and they wish they were allowed on the furniture, but they only have scars now, no more wounds. They don't wake up every day wondering what experiment is coming next, hoping Whumper will be generous enough to give them painkillers, so why would they complain about still sleeping in a cage?

RAAAAAHHHHHHHH

#THIS IS AMAZING #why does everyone have some sort of thing with lab rats now #you're the second person #whump #stabby answers asks #animal experimentation

[happylittleaccident05]

Examination notes #139:

Today we completed a routine examination of I-B1357, or “Blue” as hes been responding (note; work on discipline to respond to proper identification number). As per usual, Blue behaved better then “Ash” (I-A2357) and “Red” (I-R3357). He was fairly well behaved, though he threw a bit of a tantrum when his blood was drawn.

Nothing of substantial importance was discovered in the exam. The mutation does not seem to have impacted his growth, as he is on track for a healthy height and weight of a 2-year-old (albeit one with a shell).

Signing off, Dr. Marissa Valentine

Reviewed by CEO Eric Sachs

#tmnt #redisign #tmnt iteration #tmnt au #tmnt 2012 #tmnt 2018 #tmnt leonardo #tmnt leo #tmnt 2003 #tmnt 2007 #laboratory #science experiments #mutation #human experimentation #animal experimentation

[groupalpha]

No, I don't think they are.

Maybe you should consider running?

Warning! The answer to this ask has subjects to do with animal experimentation. Please proceed with caution!

For people who don't want to see that, short summary: Amalgamation gets shocked and sent back to a shelter, and has a bad reaction to something from their past. Answer under cut!

TA: No no no no-

TA: Get off of me-

#That didn't go well... #rain world #rain world oc #rain world askblog #rw oc #the amalgamation #rw slugcat #rw slugcat oc #slugcat oc #tw animal experimentation #animal experimentation #animal experimentation tw #cw animal experimentation #animal experimentation cw #ga lore

[axellion]

All about BECs!

hi everyone!

so, for my AU (hotguy versus cuteguy) there’s a pretty huge bit of lore that would require lots of exposition to describe. so, to save myself the trouble of slowly revealing all the lore/having to explain everything, i’m just going to talk about it in one post.

quick warning before we move forward: I discuss unethical experimentation on sentient beings (animals/humans, including children), self-experimentation, and possibly medical malpractice. it will all be under the cut. stay safe, everyone 💕.

What is a BEC?

BEC stands for Biologically Enhanced Creature. in more specific terms, it’s a humanoid entity that has been genetically modified with animal parts.

Why do they exist?

in the early 1940s, species’ such as the Avian Watcher, Shapeshifter, Spirit, etc. were viewed as mythical/legendary. when their existence was confirmed to be true, scientists began to study their DNA to figure out why they evolved in such a way. with this information, they tried to replicate that with human DNA. thus began an era of scientific discovery and cruelty.

Can only humans be turned into BECs?

nope! in the 1960s, these scientists began to experiment on young animals as well. before the term BEC was coined, they were called Biologically Enhanced Humans, but the term was changed after research expanded to animals as well.

Anything else you want to share that you couldn’t figure out a category for?

yes!

less humanoid BECs are mostly looked down on. this mostly has to do with religion and conceptual ‘humanity’.

terms for humans/non-BEC creatures are also used in certain circumstances. these terms are ‘NEC’ (non-enhanced creature) and ‘PEC’ (paranormally enhanced creature).

a ‘traditional’ BEC is seen as a human with specific animal traits. like a person with dog/cat ears and a tail, bug antennae and wings, et cetera. this is considered a status symbol.

there are certain programs to sign your children up for BEC experimentation. behind the scenes, animals are often tested to see what is and isn’t safe.

cyborg =/= BEC.

What are the species’ of the characters in this AU?

Scar, BDubs, Stress, and Mumbo are human.

Grian and Jimmy are avian watchers.

Etho, Iskall, and Tango are shifters. Etho and Iskall are general shapeshifters, Tango is a Fire spirit shifter.

Ren, Doc, Cleo, Joel, and Lizzie are all BECs. Ren, Joel, and Lizzie are considered ‘traditional’ BECs.

Impulse and Skizz are both imps. Impulse, however, experimented on himself so he could have cyborg parts.

this post may update.

thank you for reading! if anything needs to be tagged, let me know.

#axel.txt #hermitcraft au #hotguy versus cuteguy #long post #animal experimentation #animal cruelty mention #human experimentation #self experimentation

[lady-charinette]

As always I got inspired in the discord gc:

Thank @naresar as always for kicking my brain into overdrive huehue

The Gorilla is an actual gorilla that through a magical mishap got turned into a human.

Now the "magical mishap" is actually the first human experimentation done by Gabriel because he wanted full control of his employees (servants) and submissive ones he thought would obey his every order without having the ability to second guess what was ACTUALLY happening in the Agreste household.

Nathalie was a crush/his sidepiece from before so she was an exception (and because she's his secretary she has to have ordinary or above intelligence to manage stuff for him and the company as well as take care of Adrien).

Imagine Gorilla of all people (animals?) actually growing in intelligence enough to defy him and protect Adrien. The creature defies its master. Gabriel would combust. The whole world finds out not only about Gabriel's cruel animal experiments but also him being Hawkmoth.

#miraculous ladybug #ml #adrien agreste #nathalie sancouer #gabriel agreste #ml gorilla #miraculous #ml au #ml idea #ml hawkmoth #animal experimentation

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

In a scandal that will surely make Mitt Romney—who famously strapped his family dog atop the roof of his car for a road trip—look like a PETA activist, a review of 75 studies published by Mehmet Oz between 1989 and 2010 reveals the Republican Senate candidate’s research killed over 300 dogs and inflicted significant suffering on them and the other animals used in experiments.

Oz, the New Jersey resident who’s currently running for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, was a “principal investigator” at the Columbia University Institute of Comparative Medicine labs for years and assumed “full scientific, administrative, and fiscal responsibility for the conduct” of his studies. Over the course of 75 studies published in academic journals reviewed by Jezebel, Oz’s team conducted experiments on at least 1,027 live animal subjects that included dogs, pigs, calves, rabbits, and small rodents. Thirty-four of these experiments resulted in the deaths of at least 329 dogs, while two of his experiments killed 31 pigs, and 38 experiments killed 661 rabbits and rodents.

In the early 2000s, testimony from a whistleblower and veterinarian named Catherine Dell’Orto about Oz’s research detailed extensive suffering inflicted on his team’s canine test subjects, including multiple violations of the Animal Welfare Act, which sets minimum standards of care for dogs, cats, primates, rabbits, and other animals in the possession of animal dealers and laboratories. The law specifically requires researchers and breeders to use pain-relieving drugs or euthanasia on the animals, and not use paralytics without anesthesia, or experiment multiple times on the same animal.

Dell’Orto testified that a dog experimented on by Oz’s team experienced lethargy, vomiting, paralysis, and kidney failure, but wasn’t euthanized for a full two days. She alleged other truly horrifying examples of gratuitously cruel treatment of dogs, including at least one dog who was kept alive for a month for continued experimentation despite her unstable, painful condition, despite how data from her continued experimentation was deemed unusable. According to Dell’Orto, one Oz-led study resulted in a litter of puppies being killed by intracardiac injection with syringes of expired drugs inserted in their hearts without any sedation. Upon being killed, the puppies were allegedly left in a garbage bag with living puppies who were their littermates. Dell’Orto’s allegations, made in 2003 and 2004, are detailed in letters from PETA to the university and USDA. In an interview with Billy Penn last month, she acknowledged PETA “is not a reliable source of information,” but said the organization’s letters honestly reflected what she told the organization and provided documentation for.

In May 2004, Columbia University was ordered by the USDA to pay a $2,000 penalty for violations of the Animal Welfare Act. The fine paid by Columbia was the result of a settlement between the university and the USDA, based on the findings of Columbia’s internal investigation of Oz’s research. The USDA accepted these findings, but according to Dell’Orto, the review was faulty, and “had investigators on the committee that were also complicit in this type of poorly designed, cruel animal experimentation.” Dell’Orto also noted that while Oz wasn’t the one who euthanized the dogs and puppies himself, “When your name is on the experiment, and the way the experiment is designed inflicts such cruelty to these animals, by design, there’s a problem.”

Months after paying the $2,000 fine, in December 2004, Columbia defended Oz amid the animal abuse allegations, calling him “a highly respected researcher and clinician” who adhered “to the highest standards of animal care,” but neglected to deny any of the specific allegations Dell’Orto had made against Oz. On Monday, Jezebel reached out to Columbia’s office of communications and public affairs as well as Oz’s Senate campaign. Columbia declined to comment, and Oz’s campaign has yet to respond. Notably, in April this year, the Daily Beast reported that the university had seemingly cut all ties with Oz, stripping his personal pages from the medical center’s website. Oz formerly held senior positions including vice chair of surgery and director of integrated medicine at the medical center.

Oz is currently running against Pennsylvania’s Democratic lieutenant governor John Fetterman. Owing to a number of bizarre gaffes on the campaign trail, including a comically out-of-touch campaign video of Oz calling vegetables “crudités” and the resurfacing of his history of creepy comments toward women, Oz has been trailing Fetterman for much of the race. But after a slew of obsessive, anti-Fetterman Fox News segments, and key police endorsements of Oz, the latest polling shows the race tightening.

In an interview with Jezebel last month, Fetterman’s wife, Gisele Barreto Fetterman, referenced long-running animal abuse allegations against Oz in a warning to voters. “I think if you look at a profile of someone who makes misogynistic comments, who abuses animals, who does all these things, you’re getting a picture of someone who’s a pretty dangerous person,” Gisele said. “That’s certainly not someone I would want making decisions on my rights or any other women’s and folks’ rights in the state, deciding whether doctors go to jail for performing life-saving services.”

Dog abuse allegations against Oz are a drop in the candidate’s proverbial bucket of scandals at this point—but given the all-American tradition of loving dogs more than humans, it might be hard to brush this one under the rug.

#us politics #news #dr. oz #dr. mehmet oz #mehmet oz #animal death #animal cruelty #animal welfare act #animal experimentation #Columbia University Institute of Comparative Medicine #Jezebel #peta #Catherine Dell’Orto #USDA #john fetterman #2022 midterms #2022 elections #2022 #2003 #2004 #vote blue #Gisele Barreto Fetterman

[mordenheim]

Fictober 2022 22: Who said this was a good idea?

Prompt number: 22. “Who said this is a good idea?”

Original Fiction

Rating: E

Warnings/Tags: animal experimentation

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The short, calico feline ran her fingers through her bright blue mane of hair as she checked the conditions inside of the testing chamber. “Chamber temperature stabilized at fifty degrees Fahrenheit. Hot rock steady at eighty.” The tall, slender zebra checking the nearby controls nodded, rubbing at his eye patch as he carefully positioned to two energy emitters to aim at their target. “That should encourage our little friend to stay in position until the experiment is over.” Morghanna smiled as she waved playfully at the cute little green gecko resting on the stone, idly cleaning its eyes with its long pink tongue. Victor patted her arm. “I wouldn’t get overly attached. We don’t know for sure what the outcome here is going to be. I’m hoping for something positive, but we can’t be sure.” Looking over at the clock, the two of them nod to one another and step over to the two large switches on opposite walls of the lab. Together, they start to count down. “Five, four, three, two, one, zero!” On zero, they both throw their respective switch. The two energy emitters begin to hum, powering up. One on the left with a warm red radiance while the other has a brilliant green glow about it. Finally a beam fires from each of them, aimed at the tiny reptile basking on the rock. At first, the gecko seems engulfed in a ball of the swirling energies, but eventually it gets more focused and the lizard itself begins to absorb it all. It seems to pulse a little, like its entire body was throbbing to some unseen heartbeat, but didn’t seem disturbed or uncomfortable in any way. The feline, watching through the glass and taking notes murmured out loud. “So, uh.. Victor?” The zebra, seemingly lost in his own note-taking as he observed power levels and fluctuating weights blinked and looked over to her. “Hmm? Yes?” “Let me get this straight. We have our little gecko here…” “Yes?” “We exposed him to a strain of the Kaiju Flu that we’ve isolated and modified to hopefully be non-infectious.” “Hopefully.” “And now we’re firing both a growth and shrink ray at the poor thing at the same time.” “He doesn’t seem to be bothered by it…” “Basically flooding him with incredible amounts of size-energy.” Finally the zebra turns towards the feline and blinks, “What are you getting at, exactly?” She goes through the paperwork, looking for who in the lab had approved this experiment. “Who said this is a good idea?” Victor blinked, staring through the glass as the gecko started to show signs of his Kaiju Flu infection, a row of spikes starting to grow from his spine. His back legs swelled with muscle and thickened as the reptile was forced up into a two-legged posture. Smoke and sparks belched out of his tiny mouth as he coughed. “Uh.. I.. Didn’t think to look. I just saw this as our to-do for the day and went with it.” “Alright, shutting down in three, two, one, zero!” They tanked the switches into the off position and stared through the glass. The tiny kaiju was alternately glowing red and green as it crawled off of the heat rock. “Okay… I think everything’s going to be fine…” The tiny monster opened its maw, blasting the rock with a beam of red energy. The rock began to shrink rapidly until it vanished from sight. All the while the tiny Kaiju was slowly growing larger. It snapped its maw shut with a satisfied grin and started hunting for a new target. The two looked at each other and sighed, “Ah, crapbaskets...”

#fictober22 #animal experimentation #sci-fi #comedy #monster makers

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Ready for bed." Kingston Whig-Standard. June 21, 1933. Page 9. ---- For 12 months little Donald Kellogg has had Gua, an infant chimpanzee, as his constant companion, so that his father, Dr. W. N. Kellogg, professor of psychology at Indiana University, and his mother might record results of one of the most unusual scientific experiments ever attempted. As a result of tests concluded at their Kellogg Orange Park, Fla., bungalow, Dr. Kellogg declares that chimpanzees are far superior to the human child in memory, co-operative spirit and ability to grasp knowledge, but the chimpanzee, at the age of 16 months, has reached the peak of its ability to learn, while the child learns more with each day of instruction.

#university of indiana #winthrop kellogg #the ape and the child #chimpanzee #baby chimp #human experimentation #animal experimentation #comparative psychology #comparative developmental study #child development #the great depression #science experiments

[stabbynunchuckss]

Lab worker anon here, you asked for more so I'll try to provide

All the mice are numbered, we call them by their number. If one of them is bity and difficult we DO remember.

Sometimes I kinda do forget that they are living creatures. One time I accidentally yeeted a mouse to an arena from like a meter height😬

In general there's quite a lot of "Oops😬... Oh well, hopefully he'll be fine"

The attitude from "oh look how cute they are sleeping" to "come here you litte asshole" can change in a moment

When they are no longer needed/can't be used they are euthanized. If whumpee wants to survive they better be useful.

Samples are always needed for biochemical analysis, whumpee better hope it's not the brain. (That's what we take so rip all our mice)

If a sedative is taking too long to work, your whumper will not have the patience to wait.

In general sterile work environment is only for someone you care about surviving.

Is your whumpee unique? My friend's mice are mutant so each and every one is special and important as she has to breed them, mine are wild type so completely replaceable. She is extra careful about sterilization and proper protocoll, I ate in the clean spf room while I was giving my mice electric shocks (don't tell my lab manager he would have a heart attack).

Feel free to reach out to me for more tips and advice at @stealandblood if you want😁

OH MY GODDDDD

#I'm screaming #holy shit #i love this i love you for this oh my god #whump #stabby answers asks #lab whump #animal experimentation