albino-whumpee reblogged
whumpering-heights
Lab whump dialogue, but it's things my housemate's said about her lab rats
She's a bio med student, and all testing at the lab is done as humanely as possible. This is not the place for debates on this topic: I simply wanted to share how an actual lab whumper would probably talk.
- "When I come in with food, they jump up at the bars! It's so cute!"
- "I mean yeah, they're on a diet experiment, so that response makes sense. But still!"
- "We have a bunch of old ones, too. They're just like, too done with everything to care, they're great."
- "I like giving them apple slices, and petting them. They're so cute, and I think they trust me now! It's too bad I'm giving them tumors and stuff."
- (literally 10 minutes gushing on how cute they are, and how they like to cuddle up when they're comfortable.)
- "They are so smart! It doesn't do them any good, though. Would probably be better off if they weren't."
- "One of them almost escaped today. No clue how they did it, I swear they were on an IV and restrained and everything. I turn around for five seconds, and there they went!"
- "I was almost tempted to let them go. Like, you've earned it, at that point."
ANIMAL/WHUMPEE DEATH CW
- "I could take them home instead of putting them down, I could. Just write them out of the system. If no one checks the freezer, they won't know. But the landlord doesn't allow pets. Even if he did, where would I put 20 of them?"
- "Obviously, we do it as humane as possible. The quickest way is decapitation, but that freaks the others out a lot and it's gruesome. So we gas them. It should be painless, but.. there are stress responses."
- "I was holding one of them that had died for like 10 minutes, because I didn't know where to put it. I was a bit surprised at how little I felt. I suppose that's natural."
- "I did pet it, after it died. I'm not a monster."
But wouldn't it be WORSE?
Having an experimenter who thinks you're cute, that thinks you trying to reason with them and act like you're a real person is adorable? Someone who no matter what you do, won't take you seriously? That baby-talks to you when they run experiments?
Who will still put you down at the end of the experiment? They can couch it in whatever "fear free handling" terminology they want, but to you, its still being murdered.