Animals are not only bred within laboratories, but also obtained from specialty retailers, animal shelters and directly from the wild. Dogs and cats are usually purchased from Class A or B dealers. Class A dealers specialize in selling animals that are specially bred or bred specifically for testing. Class B traders purchase animals at auctions, through newspaper ads or animal shelters, and then sell them to laboratories. Animals acquired from shelters are known as “pound seizure.”1 In the United States, there are no federal laws prohibiting pound seizure, but Washington, D.C. and 18 states have banned it.2 Shelters were built to provide animals with safe, warm place and loving home; do not provide laboratories with more subjects to test. Animals such as monkeys, chimpanzees, mice, rats, and birds are taken from the wild in Asia, South America, and Africa to be used as test subjects in the United States.3 No scientist would like to be taken from their home and family for be subjected to cruel and painful tests, so why is it acceptable to do this to wild animals? There seems to be no limit to when, where and how these animals can be obtained. Now it's time to step up and draw the line. Many product tests performed on animals can be described as unusually cruel. Animals are tested for skin sensitization, skin irritation/corrosion, eye irritation/corrosion, acute oral toxicity, reproductive/developmental screening, and developmental toxicity; usually without any type of painkiller being administered.4 With so many new, more advanced, and accurate methods for testing products, why do we still resort to old, cruel methods? With many Americans applying the "out of sight, out of mind" principle to animal testing, now is the time to bring it to the... center of paper... of the net." NON ANIMAL TECHNOLOGY. Np, nd Web . December 11, 2013. Daniel G. Hackam, MD, and Donald A. Redelmeier, MD, “Translating Research Evidence from Animals to Humans,” The Journal of the American Medical Association 296 (2006): 1731-2. Marlene . Simmons et al., “Cancer-Cure Story Raises New Questions,” Los Angeles Times May 6, 1998. US Food and Drug Administration, “FDA Provides Advice to Make Early Phases of Clinical Drug Development More Efficient,” press release of FDA January 12, 2018. 2006. “Types of Animal Testing.” – The American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS), December 9, 2013. “Animal Testing – ProCon.org Headlines.” animals." Do Something, nd. Web. December 11, 2013. "Cosmetics Testing Using Animals: The Humane Society of the United States".. 2013.