Animal Welfare

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Q1.a On balance, do you agree or disagree that scientists should be allowed to conduct any experiments on live animals?
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What would it take for you to agree that a mouse or monkey should suffer pain or even die? To cure a life-threatening disease? Or would no scientific gain justify the animal's suffering?

Survey results published today reveal that over 22,000 dogs had to be destroyed in the UK last year - because they had strayed or were abandoned, ten percent more than the previous year. The NCDL, who commissioned the research from MORI, is horrified that so many dogs are being destroyed when there are practical solutions that could dramatically reduce this needless destruction.

We would like to point out that an RSPCA press release issued in early March concerning our 5-8 February 1999 poll on public attitudes to fur farming was misleading.

Eurogroup for Animal Welfare, RSPCA, Deutscher Tierschutzbund

A recent MORI survey, conducted on behalf of the Campaign for the Protection of Hunted Animals, shows that 57% of people living in rural areas support MP Michael Foster's Bill to ban hunting
with dogs, 32% oppose it.

A recent MORI poll found that seven in ten (71%) agree that hunting with hounds should be banned.

A survey the for the National Canine Defence League (NCDL) found that an estimated
106,000 stray dogs were taken in by the UK's 436 local authorities during the year 1996/97, an increase of 13% over 1995/96.
Nearly two-thirds were returned to their owners or rehomed but it is estimated that 17,000 dogs had to be destroyed.