Abstract
To the Editor.— As a physician in an academic institution, I feel compelled to offer a different perspective on animals in research from that of the commentary by Drs Smith and Hendee. 1 I want to clarify the pound seizure issue and to respond to the article's stated objective of organizing everyone from members of medical societies to patients to thwart animal protectionists' efforts before they jeopardize the health of mankind. Ninety percent of laboratory research animals are rodents, rabbits, and other small animals. Since dogs and cats make up less than 1% of research animals, the fate of animal research clearly doesn't hinge on their use. That research would be curtailed because of the much higher expense of buying dogs from breeders instead of from the pound is false. Pound-seizure advocates purposely underestimate the price of a pound animal and overestimate that of a dog bought from a dealer
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