Me either, too. Those puppies are living things, able to feel and communicate pain. Animals used for medical testing are treated more humanely than abandoned pets.
Along the Erie Canal towpath a few years ago, two abandoned dogs apparently found one another and formed a pack of wild dogs which had at least two litters of puppies. God only knows how they managed to hunt enough to feed them all. (I see mice, chipmunks, woodchucks, and squirrels there all the time, but not a lot. The wooded area is only about 50 feet in most places.)
Anyway, people reported the dogs to the state's Canal Authority, which did nothing. Finally the town I live in sent in its own animal control officers, plus some borrowed from other towns, trapped 14 dogs, got them all medical check-ups and treatment as needed, and--here's the happy ending--every single trapped animal was adopted by someone working animal control. The follow-up story a year later said the young feral ones took some time to trust humans but succeeded, and the adults returned to being good pets almost immediately.
There was some minor political flap over the town acting on state land, but the state figured out early that the smart thing to do was to shut up and say thank you.
In other news, the sun is shining!
Maryn, cowering indoors
