In some cases, the puppies were little more than four weeks old and still suckling when taken from their mothers.Animal welfare experts at the Kennel Club recommend puppies are separated from their mothers only when they are at least eight weeks old. The pregnant mothers were brought to the centre from breeding farms in the UK and overseas. The film shows the mothers being protective of their young as she feeds them, and the puppies running around playing with each other.However, unlike household pets, they do not experience the outdoors because MSD says it is a legally obliged to “confine” them to avoid contamination issues. Susie would often feel nauseous when she saw the animals harmed but she was afraid she would faint and reveal her undercover camera. animal research, norman baker, vivisection, merck, merck, sharp and dohme, msd, animal testing, home office, cats and dogs animal tests, buav, sarah kA puppy at the MSD lab is heard crying out as it is given a lethal injection [BUAV] She filmed the technicians holding the frightened puppies as they tried to wriggle away from the syringes.In one scene on October 15 last year, three puppies are given lethal injections. After the second one is killed, the third senses the danger, and cries out loudly and whimpers as the laboratory staff tried to inject the lethal fluid into his small paw. As the pup struggles and screams, a worker says: “Good boy. I know you are being very good. I think I am in, oh no, don’t do that. “Don’t do that. Oh dear. What a fuss, what a fuss. Perhaps your leg was a bit sore from all those bleeds. Dear oh dear, that’s got you. Poor little soul.” Referring to a puppy who was given a lethal injection, a worker says: “Put up a bit of a fight. Yeah. It is always a risk when they have been bled every day, they feel a bit sore and also sometimes if you have had several needles in, the vein will swell a bit so you haven’t got much of a drainpipe.”
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