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“LARRY will always be in my heart,” says Sally Walshaw. “I cried before and after the euthanasia session, but I didn’t want to upset Larry by crying during the session itself. I spent a lot of time with him on his last day, and gave him lots of treats. Then Larry received a sedative, and about 10 minutes later the euthanasia was administered.”

Larry was a 10-year-old rabbit and one of Walshaw’s favourite charges in a lab at Michigan State University, where she cared for animals. Larry had become uncontrollably wheezy from a cancer he had developed…

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