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...method, known as "cervicaldislocation," involved grasping the rodent by thehead and sharply pulling the rest of the animalaway from the head, breaking the rodent's neck...
Wiles demonstrates the method with a woodenmouse on the surface of his desk...
Wiles says his major accomplishment in almosttwo years as Cambridge's lab animals commissionerhas been to implement carbon dioxide asphyxiationas the method of euthanasia for small rodents.Before, Wiles says, many researchers were usinganother, less humane method of killing mice andsmall rats...
Although he acknowledges that cervicaldislocation is s method of euthanasia accepted bythe American veterinary Medicine Association hesays he has reservations about the practice...
...Donna Bishop '81 of the Alliance forAnimals says "the dislocation method obviously isgoing to be painful and traumatizing...