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Er, yes but also this...
https://www.braintreesci.com/restraint-containment-handling/restraint/rat-restrainers/decapicones/
They come in quantities of 200, in handy pre-loaded dispensers.
Can’t believe that name. Wow.
Yeah, although maybe it's good that they're straightforward? No euphemisms, no pretense.
They're used together with an implement simply called the decapitator. At this point there's no need to mince words 😅
Good god, this text is real
Looked up decapitators... https://stoeltingco.com/Neuroscience/Decapitators~9997
"Rodent guillotine" https://www.wpiinc.com/var-2645-rodent-guillotine.html
Lol I love how it says "considered one of the more humane ways to sacrifice laboratory rodents. Who are they sacrificing them to? The great God of science?
That's what it's called when it's inhumane to let them live after an experiment.
Certain rats have incredibly elevated chances of growing tumors, for example. Letting them grow old is basically torture, so...
Still feels icky to make that decision for another creature. I know people have to do it for pets all the time and I've had to do so myself but I still second guess that all the time... I wish there was a way to communicate with them to find out what they want.
Still wouldn't call that a sacrifice... That's a mercy killing.
At first I thought it was a bad translation but the site says they're HQed in Chicago so that seems a little unlikely (but not impossible). I wondered if it was the technical term (similar to how "spontaneous abortion" is actually a technical term for a miscarriage, shockingly), but I didn't immediately find anything, but I also didn't look super hard.
It's archaic euphemistic jargon, and that's why you generally don't see it used outside of the niche.
I instinctively read "considered one of the more humane ways to sacrifice laboratory students"
Yes, for mild winters and plentiful harvests
Bastards, we need harsher winters over here. Otherwise the moskitos and invasive species get even more numerous.
For Reviewer B to accidentally to misclick and lose all their notes.
Yeah, because it's fast and little pain can be felt before its dead. Guillotines were developed to be a more humane execution for people.
"Physical methods" (Guillotine, cardiac puncture, thoracotomy, etc) are usually a secondary confirmation of death after lethal ketamine/xylazine cocktail injection, isofluorane, or CO2 inhalation.
And yeah we're sacrificing them to the science god to try and make new discoveries and new therapies. We're also trying to develop ways to avoid using organisms such as organ on a chip or multiple organ on a chip systems but thats expensive af and not yet sufficient quality to replace organism testing.
I put my organ on a chip all the time, but I think you might not be talking about pringles here
Think like a microchip but for cells. These organ on a chip contain various cells to emulate the function and response of an organ.
I recommend finding a different hobby as salt up your urethra sounds unpleasant. But I mean if your partner is into it whatever.
Maybe, but once you pop you just can't stop. I've been at this for years, please send help
I was going to say, I have a similar madame guillotine at home but mine is for the paper.
Man, my oldest kiddo is going into neuroscience, there are paid internship opportunities, which is awesome but I worry she'll end up using something like these to snuff mice all day. I don't think I could do that job.