I don't want to sound callous, but... they're cats. Not humans. How do you think all the medicines at your vet's office were originally tested? Animal models a

I don't want to sound callous, but... they're cats. Not humans. How do you think all the medicines at your vet's office were originally tested? Animal models are used in biomedical research all the time, and yet they account for a tiny fraction of the animals we kill for arguably less useful purposes (meat production). Provided steps are taken to minimize any unnecessary suffering (which should be relatively minimal in a drug trial), I find conducting research on animal models far more justifiable than even just eating meat - there's an alternative to the latter (vegetarianism), there aren't good alternatives to the former.