Cats from a West Texas animal shelter have been used for years to train students at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, a practice university and shelter officials plan to continue despite outcries from the largest animal rights organization in the world.
TTUHSC has annually purchased about five or six stray cats from Odessa Animal Control since the 1980s
Last year, TTUHSC purchased six cats from Odessa Animal Control in early October, according to documents that PETA obtained through the Texas Public Information Act. Nearly 50 students of the university's neo-natal intensive care unit used the cats later that month to practice inserting breathing tubes and administering needle treatments, according to the documents
The school set up three training sessions and 15 to 18 students practiced on two cats during each session, a document shows.
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