California to allow more canine blood banks, walk-in donors
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California to allow more canine blood banks, walk-in donors

Associated Press  

California on Saturday enacted a law aimed at phasing out one of the nation’s large canine blood banks and the practice of keeping dogs in facilities while their blood is drawn. Gavin Newsom signed a law to let veterinarians run community blood banks where residents can take their pets to donate blood and that can sell and transfer the blood supplies to clinics that need it. The legislature passed a bill to introduce community canine blood banking, but Newsom vetoed it, saying it didn’t go far enough to phase out the practice of keeping donor dogs in facilities. On its website, the group says closed colony banks can ensure a steady and clean blood supply for dogs, and its donors don’t carry infectious diseases.

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‘A necessary evil’: The captive dogs whose blood saves lives
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‘A necessary evil’: The captive dogs whose blood saves lives

LA Times  

Inside a subzero freezer at a Northern California pet hospital sit rows of carefully labeled bags of fresh frozen plasma. “I don’t want to see captive dogs,” said Ken Pawlowski, clinical director of one of three community blood banks in the state licensed to sell blood products. Kramer said donor dogs receive care “as good or better than any pet …

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