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You're gone for just a minute...just long enough for your favorite barista to make you the perfect latte. You come out, and Sam, your beloved dog of eight years is gone. You look around. You call his name. You ask everyone around if they'd seen him. Someone did see a man with a dog that fits Sam's description. He was kidnapped.
It doesn't make any sense at all. Sam is a mutt with a greying muzzle. He's not a valuable dog. His portly build, docile personality and short muzzle make him a terrible candidate for fighting. Who would steal a dog like Sam?
You think for a minute. It's time to take action. You go home and call the pound. You make flyers. He's microchipped, so he's bound to turn up.
Unfortunately, for some residents of Lima, Peru, this sort of scenario could have a very unhappy ending. At least two dozen stolen dogs were found in a dissection laboratory at the Medical School of the University of San Marcos, South America's oldest university.
The dogs were discovered when Carmen Valverde had her dog Thomas stolen from her while walking. A friend, who works at the teaching hospital of the school accidentally spotted the dog in a surgery room where dogs are dissected.
Valverde then snuck into the room with a lab coat to rescue Thomas. He was sedated and strapped to a stainless steel table, ready for dissection.
Ricardio Rubios, dean of the medical school admitted the dogs ended up in the dissection room, but claimed that only strays are used.
"I assure you we would have returned the dog. All our experimental surgeries are done to dogs that don't have owners," Rubios told Reuters.
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