Animal testing for dummies

Since I’m pretty much doing animal testing all day long (hour after hour day in day out) I figured that it’s about time to explain how animal testing really works.
So to make it easy for my readers to understand what I am talking about, I will mention some people that fit on the description of a certain method, type of animal or a certain behaviour that is studied.

ddY mice. The behaviours studied on these mice are not reliable and not repeatable. If you do a test one day, it’s most probable not to get the same result the second day.


Kate Moss= i.v injection. Efficient method to inject the drugs, Katie knows it well.

Truman Capote= Phenobarbital, with this drug, the animals start moving slower and gets really relaxed.

Tom Cruise in love= Hagueleagues test. with hagueleagues test, you put a beam on the palm and feet of the mice and record how long it takes for the mice to feel something and start moving. Like Tom Cruse in love.

Bill Clinton= knock out mice (known as the “active mice”). “I did not have sex with that mouse”.

Picasso= Paw pressure test. I’ve studied this test for 3 months and still don’t know what it wants to say.

Kim Jong Il= black mice (se Donald Rumsfeld) These mice are evil, they never do the things you want them to do.

Terrance and Phillip (from South Park)= all above mentioned mice. They are not clean, they poo and pie everywhere.