BACKGROUND - Examples of Animal Experiments in Canada
Dog Experiments by UBC Researcher

Researchers at various labs, including the McDonald Research Laboratory, University of British Columbia, write that they have developed A CANINE MODEL FOR EMPHYSEMA. Over the years Lifeforce has investigated similar experiments at UBC and St. Paul's Hospital. Some of the research was funded by tobacco companies and subjected animals to cigarette smoke.

This model produces extreme emphysema only closely resembling that encountered in humans (but not the same as). They said that the animals could be maintained indefinitely. So the dogs would be confined in a research laboratory cage. They claimed the this dog model will be of value in developing imaging techniques capable of safely evaluating the effect of treatment on emphysema in patients. However, non-invasive imaging techniques can be used to determine treatments for people with the actual health problem.