http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/09/to-relieve-lab-rabbits-pain-scientists-work-to-measure-it/ Keeping You Current Sat, 25 May 2013 13:28:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/09/to-relieve-lab-rabbits-pain-scientists-work-to-measure-it/comment-page-1/#comment-973 MAS Sun, 23 Sep 2012 04:25:56 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=3939#comment-973 I can't believe this is an actual thing that is being studied and funded. Logic would tell you that poking, prodding, stabbing, injecting, burning, tattooing and whatever other invasive forms of testing done on a mammal will cause pain. A pain scale just seems...insulting. Since these are scientists and all you'd think they would have picked up on this... I can’t believe this is an actual thing that is being studied and funded. Logic would tell you that poking, prodding, stabbing, injecting, burning, tattooing and whatever other invasive forms of testing done on a mammal will cause pain. A pain scale just seems…insulting. Since these are scientists and all you’d think they would have picked up on this…

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/09/to-relieve-lab-rabbits-pain-scientists-work-to-measure-it/comment-page-1/#comment-764 Alicia Trickett Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:43:23 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=3939#comment-764 The only problem I see with this research is that it will be VERY hard to apply to rabbits who are not accustomed to being handled. You should SEE the "grimaces" I get when I touch my older Californian rabbits that I did not raise here on the farm. You would think I was planning to harm them just trying to pat them. I'm talking full scale "squinting" "cheek bunching" "ear pinning" and a couple even grunt! Obviously I'm not hurting them so......... how would you tell the difference between that and pain? The only problem I see with this research is that it will be VERY hard to apply to rabbits who are not accustomed to being handled. You should SEE the “grimaces” I get when I touch my older Californian rabbits that I did not raise here on the farm. You would think I was planning to harm them just trying to pat them. I’m talking full scale “squinting” “cheek bunching” “ear pinning” and a couple even grunt! Obviously I’m not hurting them so……… how would you tell the difference between that and pain?

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