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Gurji et al. respond:

We would like to respond to the comments of Cunneen and Ayres and of Karas about the article by Flaherty et al.1 and to clarify certain aspects in which our experience and approach differ from those of the correspondents. We appreciate the correspondents' interest in the goat as a research animal and their willingness to share their experience in goat-related veterinary research and experimentation. We agree with many of their comments and, in fact, had implemented several of the practices and procedures they recommend, even before we received these two letters. Here we offer an update to the procedures described in our earlier report1. We hope to share refinements that, in our opinion, have improved the quality of the care given to goats before and during surgery. Many of these refinements are in agreement with the comments and recommendations of Cunneen, Ayres and Karas.

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  1. Department of Integrative Physiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX

    Hunaid A. Gurji,  Daniel W. White &  Robert T. Mallet

  2. Department of Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX

    Shirley Nelson &  Egeenee Q. Daniels

  3. Department of Surgery, University of North Texas Health Science Center of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX

    Albert H. Olivencia-Yurvati

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