After PETA's Laboratory Investigations Department (LID) learned about a University of Connecticut Health Center medical training course in which cats were having hard plastic tubes repeatedly forced down their wind pipes and rabbits were having air forced into their chests and were then stabbed with needles to relieve the pressure (before being killed), we sent the school information on modern, humane, and educationally superior medical simulators; filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture; and asked our members and supporters to urge the school to drop the cruel course. The school has announced that it is no longer using animals for this training.

After receiving complaints from United Airlines passengers that the airline was showing "Texas Ranch House" as an in-flight entertainment option, PETA wrote United to ask it to replace the series with a humane option. The selection showed Wild West re-enactors branding cows with hot irons and cutting off their tails without the use of any anesthetic. United Airlines representatives responded to PETA's letter and said that they have decided that the airline will no longer offer this series as an in-flight entertainment option.