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Drug-Testing Dogs Will Go Up for Adoption, Not Euthanization

  • FDA trying new study technique to reduce animal testing
  • Twenty-seven beagles will participate, then be retired as pets
A beagle reaches out to a hand from his cage at a toxicology lab of pharmaceutical company in Vitry, France.

A beagle reaches out to a hand from his cage at a toxicology lab of pharmaceutical company in Vitry, France.

Photographer: Yves Forestier/Sygma via Getty Images

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Developing veterinary medicine for pets has often meant testing the experimental drugs on dogs -- with a sometimes morbid ending for the canines involved.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it plans to study a new model that will result in fewer animal deaths, and put about two dozen beagles up for adoption.