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Quote: "I don't think heart transplantation will be a feasible alternative in [veterinary medicine] because of the donor problem," Dr. Gregory said. Dr. Walshaw agreed: "It's unacceptable to kill a healthy dog just to use his heart, and it's not feasible to collect organs from brain-dead animals, as done in human medicine." In a normal veterinary setting, it's simply not practical to keep a dog's heart beating and the organs filled with blood by artificial means after brain death, as is done in human hospitals. Indeed, most veterinary hospitals don't even have the equipment necessary to recognize brain death in dogs. Veterinarians usually recognize death only when the heart stops beating and breathing stops irrevocably - much too late for harvesting useful organs." Source: http://www.dogchannel.com/dog-sidebar-articles/transplantsthenewfrontiersidebar2.aspx

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