European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Animal rights activists Are protesting Sale at animals to Washington state University veterinary school vet students practice on pets from animal shelter  associated Pressi n Black Beauty it was easy to line up the sides in Iho cruelty to Ammal debate. Horses were either humanely treated or Friey were Root. Vou cared about them or you did t. Today in Easte Washington a Small but vocal group of animal rights activists argues against using dogs and cats from Spokane county animal shelter Lor studies at Washington stale University s school of veterinary Medicine in Pullman. There s a lot of emotion Here says or Robert Wilson Dean of the University s vet school. Or. Harry Polit head of Small animal surgery at the. Veterinary school Calls it an unfair fight i m uncomfortable being cast in the role of the  Tammy Burrell. Chairman of the Corr utter to end Pound seizure thinks it s Rattler Clear. We Are not talking about hailing human Progress in any Way what we Are saying is that our former Pels deserve better than this Marianne Niemczyk due Clor of the Spokane county animal shelter thinks it s All so very sad bul so is a lot of her Job. Last year the county shelter sold the University 58,915 Worth of animals 573 dogs Al $15 each and 64 cals Al $5 each All told the shelter took in 3,176 dogs and 1,106 cats had 785 dogs redeemed by owners and found someone else to adopt 316 of the dogs and 110 of the cats the rest stayed five Days and then either went to the University or were killed. Euthanized it s called Niewyk and her staff inject them with sodium Pentobarbital for the work without the University contract Gremczyk says lha s3 dog pens and 25 cat cages would be full More Olen without it tha county would have to Como up with More Money for the drugs used to kill those not claimed in five Days. Just As important for her says Niemczyk is the fact that each dog or cat that goes to the vet school Means one less hat i Nave of hold and shoot sodium Penl Barb  a vegetarian herself. Niemczyk finds some objectors hypocritical. What do they eat Tor dinner she asks. Such contracts Aren t new says Pettil who graduated Tram the University of California Al Davis in 1353. Historically what has happened for the last 30 years or More is that schools would go out to the pounds and contract quietly Pettit explains. In the 1970s, the Vel school asked for a contract with Spokane s animal shelter. The Issue was put to the voters in acc Lerendu and was approved by a 1-to-l margin. A 1978, the City bowed to pressure from its humane society and the contract moved to Tho county. The county commission listened to the newly formed committee and then Voied 2-1 last year to continue the contract until the end of 1987 commissioner elect pal Tummey will take the place of one of Hose who voted or i. A Lerse phone Call a week Belore Iho november hut election offered Hei 2,800 Voles if she wow agree to vote against the a University contract she says she turned in Down. Third year vol stir Denis have a surgical lab class thai uses seven dogs a semester for each group of three to four students. Senior vol students study cats each animal undergoes iwo surn Cal procedures in the Liml a minor incision is Marto the second is a Moro seniors procedure after which the do is Pul to Etc nah with Ansol Icsia sur Jery indents arc unlit of responsible for Neif Ian animals  Tihe two weeks each is at the vol school Kennel there a