French dog breeders allowed to sell excess dogs to labs

[Catherine]

During the pandemic shutdown, the sale of puppies  has been slow in France. Businesses were closed. Breeders have a surplus of animals they can't sell through normal outlets.  The French government has allowed the breeders to sell their extra puppies to research labs where they will be subjected to cruel experiments and ultimately be killed. Worse, these cruel experiments in no way benefit humans even though benefiting humans is the justification given for experimenting on animals.


https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12056511/d...ts-france/

This is horrible. These dogs were bred to profit animal breeders. When they became unprofitable they also became expendable. If they could not generate money for the breeder through normal means then the breeders have sought to profit through any other means.  In this case they are being sold to research labs. The breeders don't care what happens to them. As long as they bring in some money, it doesn't matter if they suffer. If they could sell them as dog meat they probably would do it.

Shame on the French government for allowing this to happen and shame on the breeders for  doing this to their dogs. Any breeder that would do this should never be allowed to own a dog again.