It doesn’t matter how many animals are euthanized at the shelter. He made a promised, probably signed a contract, knowing that he intended to renege on it.
I work at a shelter, and if we found out someone was doing this, we’d sic the sheriff on them for anything we could. Those of us that work at shelters form emotional attachments to the animals we put up for adoption, and those emotional ties mean that what he’s doing is one step removed from kidnapping someone’s companion animal and killing it.
We adopt animals out with the explicit understanding that the adopter will provide the animal with a good home. It is despicable to lie to someone about your intentions in this manner.
Especially for a politician of a party that holds private property and the right of contract to be sacred.
Line lifted from Dennis Miller, unattributed. Tsk.
All of a sudden Dr. Frist. The splendour and the wonder of the man is shouted from the rooftops. Well, there is this one rather unsavory incident. I remain suspicious, but as open-minded as I can for one who is allied to the Forces of Darkness.
I have heard rumors to the effect that he is the original source of the Anonymous Amendment to the Homeland Security Bill. The idea of indemnifying any corporation from legal vexations is troubling enough. But that it was done under cover of darkness and the perpetrator didn’t even have the guts to attach his name to it…speaks volumes. If this should prove true, his case would be closed in my book, barring dramatic reformation of character.
To hell with the kitty kats. What’s he doing to us?
Yes and if he was here I am quite certain that he would say, if not “Dude that’s fucked up. No way”, then something very close to it. But I can call him if you want.
Absolutely - Harvard Med is a notoriously primitive and underfunded shithole, and it’s a wonder anyone wants to go there. /sarcasm
I love how you guys are all broken up about the poor animals and are condemning this man for it, instead of praising him for praising him for helping these people.
I didn’t see anything at all about that here, but I do see condemnation for a man who took animals who were going to die anyway and put them to a good purpose. Let’s just find a reason to bitch, why don’t we.
You animal rights people are a pain. NO animals are as valuable as human beings, and if that’s how he got his experience, then great. I’ll find some more cats and send them to him.
I think the point has eluded you. It’s not animal experimentation in itself as part of a medical school curriculum, which we all agree is unpleasant but necessary, that is so horrifying, but that Frist a) lied in order to b) obtain kittens to take home and c)torture.
Animal experimentation in a lab setting with professorial supervision is one thing, but Frist was engaging in do-it-yourself vivisection for fun and games, which is just evil.
I agree with Qadop and Airman. If hooking up those kittens’ brains to jumper cables made him all the more capable of selflessly helping the people in that wreck, more power to him.
I’m delighted to see what respect Republicans have for contract law. Apparently, as long as you’re violating a contract in order to further your education, it’s okay.
So I can write you a bad check, as long as it’s for textbooks? How is that different from signing a form promising not to experiment on cats and then doing so? (Except that when I write the bad check, no animals die.)
He admitted what he did was wrong and apologized, for what must have been no more than a low-level midemeanor. It’s not like lied under oath or anything. What more do you want?
I can’t speak to whether Sen. Frist treated his “extracurricular” animal subjects in a humane fashion (perhaps he bought or “borrowed” a full set of dissection tools and anesthesia/euthanasia equipment as well), but the point remains that no reputable medical school would endorse such activity. That’s not an “animal rights” thing, it’s part of the proper ethical and scientific training as a scientist or physician. He went to Harvard-freaking-Medical School for heaven’s sake, they’re hardly short on educational opportunities and funding. Plenty of other highly skilled physicians got to his level of ability without hitting the pound for practice.
It was a very good thing that the Senator did, stopping to help those people. I work with physicians and know that they would do likewise if they were able to and thought they could provide assistance. Sen. Frist got newspaper articles about it because he’s a senator, though.
I personally don’t think he should be attacked over this, but he should definitely acknowledge that what he did was not right. It was a severe lapse of judgement on his part.
Lets see a cite for the contract that Frist broke. This was back in the 70’s. For all you know, the shelter had a ‘first come, first serve, all you can eat kitten’ policy.
And lets see a cite for the ‘torture’ assertion you make, Gobear
Lying is an impeachable offense for Democrats, a justifiable training activity for Republicans. And some people say there is no difference between parties anymore…