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The CCAC Publishes Revised Dog Guidelines
The Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) has published the CCAC guidelines: Dogs, along with an accompanying essentials document on dogs (part of a new series of documents that introduce recently published guidelines). The document has a one-year implementation timeline.
The CCAC guidelines: Dogs document replaces the dog-specific guidelines in the CCAC Guide to the Care and Use of Experimental Animals, volume 2, and is part of the CCAC’s suite of animal-specific guidelines. It builds on the CCAC's general guidelines by providing additional guidance for the care and use of dogs in research, teaching, and testing. The document does not discuss specific ethical questions about the use of dogs in science, as such matters are addressed in the CCAC Ethics Principles for Animal Use in Science (March 2026).
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The CCAC would like to thank those who participated in the revision of this guidelines document. Your insights and expertise are deeply valued, and we truly appreciate the important role you play in the development of our standards for the ethical care and use of animals in Canadian science.
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