Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 experiments licensed under the 1986 Act. The 1986 Act defined "regulated procedures" as animal experiments that could potentially cause "pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm", to "protected animals", which encompassed all living vertebrates other than humans, under the responsibility of humans. A 1993 amendment added a single invertebrate species, the common octopus ("Octopus vulgaris"), as a protected animal. The Act applied only to protected animals from halfway through their gestation or incubation periods (for mammals, birds and reptiles) or from when they became capable of independent feeding (for fish, amphibians and, the common octopuses). Primates, cats, dogs and horses had
The Davinci Foundation for Animals major health concerns and overcame challenging health issues, to become the inspiration for a foundation that bears his namesake. Dedicated to animal advocacy, the focus of the DaVinci Foundation for Animals is to: In their first year, the DFA achieved much recognition among animal welfare groups, making a significant difference in many of the animals lives in and around the Foundations local city of Detroit Michigan. Though the support of sponsors and partners the foundation deducted staggering numbers through their spay/ neuter programs, to assist in the attempt to eliminate the overpopulation of unwanted companion animals and though assistance programs