The images from that video will never leave my mind. Muscular dystrophy is indeed a terrible disease, and there's no question that a cure must be found. But subjecting trusting dogs to a shortened lifetime of difficulty, pain, and loneliness is not the way to do it. This cruelty is completely unjustified. Texas A&M's years of experiments on dogs have not led to a cure or even to an effective treatment. It's time to reject this failed approach and to put resources into better methods now being used elsewhere.