To the editor: I learn your article on “closed colonies” of cats and dogs used as full-time blood donors with nice curiosity and better horror. I used to be struck by each the dearth of empathy for the animals in captivity and the tragic penalties {that a} lack of obtainable blood throughout surgical procedure has on a pet (they’d absolutely die).
What makes the lives of canine or cats “fortunate” sufficient to be pets extra priceless than the lives of canine and cats who’re caged and drained of a few of their blood each three weeks? We appear to overlook that these canine and cats is also pets had been they not born into the distress of a blood financial institution facility.
I hope God seems to be a canine.
Pia Alexander, Lengthy Seashore
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To the editor: About 40 years in the past, I went to a veterinarian in West L.A. who I thought of sort. In the future, I walked by a again room to get my cat, and I noticed a black cat on prime of a field in a naked room.
My “sort” vet mentioned he was there to offer blood — completely there, a prisoner. He was not going dwelling that evening and lived his empty life alone like that.
People reap the benefits of all different species; it’s simply endless. These blood-donor animals are in jail for all times with no dwelling or household, and it might all be completely different. There might simply be a system for members of the general public to donate their pets’ blood on a schedule.
There is no such thing as a such factor as a crucial evil. It’s merely profiting from different creatures.
Patricia Mace, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Let’s cease with the euphemisms. The animals aren’t blood donors. They’re canine from whom blood is taken
Joan Maggs, Granada Hills
