> By this I mean,
>a pet which needs blood or some other enzyme might have gotten it from the
>body of... yes... another ferret.  Makes me very upset, but this is true.
>When a cat gets hit by a car, and the owner takes it into the vet, the vet
>uses medications, blood, etc, which came from a donor.  YUK.  That is the
>way of things.
 
From what I was told, vets keep donor dogs and cats around the office as
pets and when donations are needed they take some blood from the donor
animal.  They don't take so much that it kills the animal.  At least as far
as I know.  One vet I know keeps donor ferrets, too, often using her own
animals.
 
--Barb--
[Posted in FML issue 2329]