Michigan State University recently announced that they will no longer be using terminal surgery labs to teach their students surgical skills. Terminal surgery labs have been protested by animal rights groups like Animalearn, who dislike the fact that healthy animals are euthanized after being used to train students in various surgical procedures. Instead, students at MSU will use cadavers and models to learn these techniques.

Rhode Island veterinarian Scott Marshall recently drafted a bill that proposed euthanasia as a solution to get the state's population of feral cats under control.The bill, introduced by Senator John Tassoni, Jr. was recently withdrawn after a flurry of criticism from animal rights groups such as Defenders of Animals (DEM). Marshall was quoted as saying, “I’m open to trying other methods...[but] I’m not very optimistic.