The ultimate fate of these animals is inevitably death. But before they die, the animals may suffer horribly at vivisectors' hands. One example is at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, where a PETA undercover investigator witnessed dogs seized from the local pound being used in hideously painful scabies experiments. In the experiments, dogs were infected with scabies, a skin disease caused by microscopic mites that spread over their entire bodies, causing intense, prolonged itching, open wounds, and, eventually, death. One dog named Genesee was infected so severely, she turned circles constantly, unable to rest because of the intense itching.
Pound seizure is illegal in England, Denmark, Sweden, and Holland.
Most other states have no law on the matter and leave it up to county or town governments to decide, but five states require pound seizure of government-run facilities. There have been several anti-pound seizure bills before Congress, but none has been enacted. Pound Seizure Problems Animal protection organizations object strongly to pound seizure and for good reason. Animals who were once well-loved companions suffer the double blow of confinement to a laboratory cage and the loss of their human friends. Families experience the anguish of knowing that a lost animal or one they have given up may have been killed in a painful experiment.