I went to the lab because there were some lab animals that needed to be killed due to aggression. PI asked that I just transfer them because they didn't deserve to die. I hope he heard me snapping necks and grows a pair because being a whiny b-word is annoying.
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This isn't difficult. You snap the neck of one and then just move on to the next. I normally do nitrogen injections to the heart but we didn't have nitrogen in the lab and I'm not going to bother talking with other labs. It takes maybe 30 seconds per animal. Outside of apes this should just be an easy task that gets you free PTO
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hope ur enjoying ur retirement bb
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I'm currently not. I was supposed to frick off, travel and goomble to my hearts content and yet I'm still working.
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... what animals were they? I thought you were a people doctor?
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12 mice, 3 ferrets, 4 dogs and two apes. I was a people doctor but my current job uses a lot of animals and we just batch kill them when needed.
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How big are the apes?
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Pretty small, maybe 20kg at most. We off them before they're full grown.
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Couldn't you feed each of the animals to a progressively stronger one until you're left with only one lethargic and bloated ape to kill?
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I jokingly brought that up during a meeting. Turns out they aren't fond of a survival of the fittest hunger games. Would've been fun to watch and get me on the campus during remit work days.
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Do you guys drug them before you kill them?
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Depends. Lidocaine is my go to but we're supposed to use stronger drugs. It's over within a half second so who cares asking the pharm lab to give us stuff to drug them.
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Darn it must suck to have a PI you hate. I wouldn't know about that
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God I love having to deal with lab animals. I was given 3 days of mental health time off even though I felt absolutely nothing and fully capable of going back to work but I don't have to go back until Thursday
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