American Cavy Breeders Association

The American Cavy Breeders Association (ACBA) is considered a specialty club under the America Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA). Like many other specialty clubs under ARBA, the ACBA maintains a membership, awards sweepstakes points, provides special awards, publishes a newsletter and contributes to developing new standards. Some may consider the ACBA to have greater responsibilities than other specialty clubs under ARBA because it is the only specialty club for cavies (Guinea Pigs) and supports all currently recognized breeds whereas most of the other ARBA specialty clubs are devoted to a single rabbit breed.

The official acceptance of breeds and varieties, the requirement for permanent earmarking and other show requirements are regulated by ARBA.

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The Purpose of the AMERICAN CAVY BREEDERS ASSOCIATION shall be to promote the breeding and improvement of the cavy, and to secure publicity for and interest in the cavy as an exhibition, pet and research animal.

READ THAT AGAIN: The purpose of the ACBA supports the use of guinea pigs as RESEARCH ANIMALS!

Inquiries to update the bylaws to remove the support of research animals, addresses to the ABCA Board of Directors and Executive leadership, are ignored. This is shameful and should be publicized so every member and person seeking to join this organization knows the truth. Supporting animal research condones abuse in a post-modern world where innovation using advanced techniques does not rely on animal models. By supporting research animals, the ACBA is obstructing the promotion of better science and condoning the deliberate mistreatment of guinea pigs. Lab animals are denied normal behaviors, they are subject to painful experiments, and live their whole lives in fear. Healthy research animals are never re-homed, they are destroyed upon the completion of an experiment. The ACBA does not meet the international standard of other leading global cavy associations which do not include the support research animals in their by-laws.

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.acbaonline.com/
  2. ↑ http://www.hsi.org/issues/advancing_science/research/eu_replacement_report.pdf


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