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Wednesday, 16 December 2015 15:50

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Meantime, speaking of actual animal welfare issues... the Hound was tickled by the name of a new drug recently released in Australia that aims to relieve the pain lambs suffer during castration and tail docking.

The cheekily named NumNuts – developed by Meat & Livestock Australia and Scottish engineering firm 4cDesign – have a single action handheld ring activator and injection mechanism to administer a local anaesthetic – lignocaine, as used by dentists. In trials the product was seen to reduce pain behaviour such as tucked-up posture, bleating and lying down. The anaesthetic acts in 30-60 seconds of injection and remains active for about four hours by which time the tissue in the testes and tail is dead, eliminating residual pain.

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