On treating animals

Well after griping for the last few (well ain't most of the posts are griping?!) Anyways back to the original purpose of this blog.

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In one of my current subjects, Animals in Biomed Research, we already crossed the topic of putting down animals and anesthesizing them. It just occured to me that what seems brutal for the test subjects in methods of putting them down in human eyes might not be brutal at all. Well it may look brutal like slamming the poor mice on the side of a table but it is instant death for them. Well killing them by aphyxiation might look kind but isn't suffocating one of the more painful deaths? Well that's why I just realized it is better to whack the animals in the head or quickly decapitating the head than just breaking their spine and suffocating them. Anyways, I think it is the most humane way of lessening the pain for them. Brutal as it may sound but its not brutal at all.
In anesthesizing the animals, I just found out that it is more efficient if anesthesize the animals if they are first adapted in handling. It makes it easier to place the needle into them to anesthesize them or induce a chemical in their resperatory system if they are already used in being handled.