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[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

Im in the EU, and quite a few of the biology students had labrats as pets.

[-] DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Oh shit forreal? I used to work in the NL and there it wasn't allowed. You couldn't even had rodents as pets because the possible dangers of contamination. I thought it was an EU thing actually, but maybe it's just NL.

Edit: not necessarily and EU thing but animal/test dependent actually.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago

It probably depends on what they were used for. I'm dutch too, but I did chemistry and civil engineering so I never used animals myself.

[-] DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

Oh, yeah I was looking it up, and I think it might be just the general CCD protocols in our institution which al involve neuroscience, and those specifically are not up for adoption ,(couldnt find if this actually was from an EU thing, but prolly depends on the type of animal and intervention).

And actually makes total sense. Some the relatively chil work in Wageningen with pets als falls under animal testing but it would feel wrong in those, mild cases.

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