January 26, 2007

Lives in the Balance

By SETH PERRY

My parents deal in research animals. They are certified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and supply dogs to laboratories for various medical experiments. Dad does the purchasing and husbandry work, Mom keeps the books, and they make good money at it.

I accompanied my father on a delivery one day. We took nine dogs to a university lab, backing Dad's approved delivery vehicle up to the loading dock of a nondescript building in the middle of a major urban campus in the wee hours of

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