Where do the animals you dissect in science class come from?

Question

I.e frogs, pigs, ect.

Answer 1

In the United States, by regulation, they are obtained from licensed breeding centers, that have a certification from the Government, and are sold, (legally) only to Faculty authorized personnel, and supervised by the Veterinary section of the University or School involved...
They are expensive, because they have to be fred from bacteriae and viruses dangerous to humans, and preferably, they come from the same strain or family, coded by numbers (for instance, white ramerican rabbitt A33D5, or white Norwegian rat strain GTN778 endo so on).......
There are companies that advertise their services directly to the laboratories of research...
Unfortunately, however comfortable you keep them, with proper food, analgesia, veterinary care, etc, at the end of the biological experiment, they are disposed of, by means of excess anesthetic (enfluorane) that kills them painlessly, or so they say...but they end up dead, unfortunately,,,,regulations are regulations....

Answer 2

I believe the fetal pigs come from slaughter houses. There are companies that kill and preserve these animals like rats just for the reason of dissection. I remember seeing neatly packaged rats in a solution prior to dissection.

Answer 3

Frogs can be purchased at certain grocery stores that sell them whole and alive.

My biology teacher last semester got our frogs this way. The stores are very hard to come by though.

Answer 4

For the cats, it's different, but animal shelters that are forced to euthanize their animals if they don't have enough space with usually donate the bodies to science. Google can help you further.

Answer 5

They are usually from certain places known as animal houses, which are places, functioning under special permission of the state animal authorities, for such domestic purposes.

Answer 6

Sometime they are donated from a local farm and others are manually caught and taken out of their environments, such as the frogs, earthworms, etc.

Answer 7

There are rules that make sure that they come from two state distance so that you don't run accross your euthanised kitty. Other than that there are controls on how they are treated while they are being prepared.

Answer 8

https://www2.carolina.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10101&storeId=10151&categoryId=98&parent_category_rn=&langId=-1&catLevel=0&bottom=N&top=Y