KINGSTON — On the third floor of the Richardson Lab building at Queen’s University, two small terrier-type dogs are running amok.

Croissant and Cosette, slightly different iterations of a beagle and schnauzer mix, are part of a colony of dogs belonging to Queen’s University that are used to research the genetic bleeding disorder, hemophilia.

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While the dogs’ blood is studied at Richardson Lab, the dogs live 150 metres down Stuart Street, in the basement of Botterell Hall, which, in 2024, was also home to 56 macaque monkeys used for research.

In 2024, Queen’s housed 43 dogs as part of its decades-long hemophilia study. The dogs are purpose-bred for hemophilia, an inherited bleeding disorder that occurs both in dogs and humans. The research has been conducted since 1981

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