Animal Justice on Dog Research after Ontario Ban

The government of Ontario, Canada, recently passed a ban on invasive medical research involving dogs and cats. This appears to directly affect the Queen’s University’s controversial hemophilia dog colony, despite the university saying it remains unclear how the legislation will impact existing research programs. The ban also prohibits breeding dogs and cats for research purposes, involving liver biopsies, portal vein injections, repeated blood collection, surgical implantation procedures, experimental viral-vector gene therapies, immunosuppressive drugs, and induced treatment protocols for bleeding episodes. Click here for more info.

Source: LA Kelley Communications, Inc., Communique, August 2026