I am absolutely digusted by this article I read, in our local paper. It's actually more of a blurb as animal related items hardly sell. Here it is but you can read more about it here

USDA to inspect hospital after dog's testing, death
Cleveland- The U.S. Department of Agriculture will send an inspector to a hospital where a neurosurgeon demonstrating a medical device to salespeople deliberately induced a brain aneurysm in a dog, which was later destroyed.

The Cleveland Clinic, known for its heart center and for treating high-profile patients such as royalty, said that it had not authorized the procedure. The hospital reported itself to the USDA, which regulates animal testing.

A neurosurgeon caused the brain aneurysm in the anesthetized animal Wednesday at the clinic's Lerner Research Institute in Cleveland to demonstrate a medical device to a group of 20 to 25 salespeople. The large mixed-breed dog was destroyed afterward because of the damage caused by the aneurysm, the clinic said.

The audacity of humans is astounding, to say the least. What do you want to bet that the poor dog was a stray or picked up from a shelter? No one living being deserves to have tests of this kind performed the be "destroyed. Animal testing is bad enough, as results are highly suspect. When I think of mankind's cruelty towards animals, I'm reminded of the tests performed on humans during WWII.

I remember visiting the Dachau concentration camp, in Germany. In the "museum", I came across photos of prisoners being tested on and one series of images were forever engraved into my mind.
This is one of the photos from that series.

I believe the Nazis were researching high-altitude changes (click here or here for more info) and this particular prisoner is seen in various stages if the experiment until the last photo shown is the one of his death. Heartbreaking....


This photo absolutely blindsided me. The soldier looked as if he was sleeping but was murdered in an inhumane 'high-altitude' experiment at Dachau.