Wouldn't it make greater financial sense? After all if one can purchase one cat for the price of one rabbit then the potential savings to medical research are clear. Animal testers could even negotiate a substantial pay increase?
2006-08-23 10:32:26 · 29 answers · asked by pakistani_spack 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
haha good one....to bad it's not true!
2006-08-23 10:33:20 · answer #1 · answered by BeC 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
1 Cats don't have 9 lives
2 They cost more to feed.
3 It would be 9 times as cruel.
4 Any savings would go into the profits of the drug companies.
5 Animal testers should suffer, not get paid more money.
2006-08-23 11:00:40 · answer #2 · answered by hi_patia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rabbits reproduce much faster than cats, so with careful planning you can gain a better than 9 to 1 ratio of vivisection victims using rabbits.
2006-08-23 10:39:12 · answer #3 · answered by barrytabrah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rabbits breed faster than cats. Rabbits breed like..well...rabbits.
Medical researchers breed their own animals to ensure they are properly controlled in terms of health and genetics.
Have you ever seen a cat run over by a car? They only have one life.
2006-08-23 10:42:40 · answer #4 · answered by trawler83 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because cats don't react to experimentation well. You can train a mouse to do anything simple you want, but if you tried to put a cat through the same experiments it would just lie down and go to sleep if it felt like it, no matter how much you trained it. Try to get reliable results from something that behaves like that. You wouldn't know if it couldn't do it or if it didn't feel like doing it.
2006-08-23 10:37:03 · answer #5 · answered by Isis-sama 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is nonsense, of course, to suppose that cats actually have nine lives. The tale probably arises from the ability of cats to land on their feet when falling from a height.
2006-08-23 10:41:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no this is in basic terms an expression made up because of the fact cat's are so agile and rapid so it form of feels that they might get into many different risky situations and nonetheless make it out alive.
2016-10-02 11:14:44 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cat's don't really have 9 lives. They aren't good models for animal testing either. Usually, at least with small molecule drugs, it goes: mouse, rat, beagle (dog), monkey. then when the FDA sais ok, human.
2006-08-23 13:33:26 · answer #8 · answered by jsn77raider 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of my colleagues had to use cats for a certain experiment because it was about a disease that was only known in humans and in cats. He said that cats make terrible guinea pigs. If you cause them pain they remember, and next time you take them out of the cage they will bite and scratch you because they expect you to cause them pain again.
So he much prefer ed to work with mice who tend to forget about the pain you've caused them.
2006-08-23 10:37:49 · answer #9 · answered by helene_thygesen 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cats would just look at the scientists with the look on their faces which says " You want me to do WHAT? Fik off!"
2006-08-23 10:40:10 · answer #10 · answered by keefer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because cats really only have one life. I know this because when I was 4, my cat Smartie (RIP) was run over my the milkman. It was only run over once, and that didn't stop it bleeding through its eyes and not being remotely interested in chasing mice or moving. I'm over it, honest.
2006-08-23 10:38:01 · answer #11 · answered by jameshens 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋