Washington U. Gets Wake-Up (Cat) Call

Written by Jeff Mackey

Posted 01-26-2012

15 Comments

A new PETA ad campaign is rolling out in St. Louis to make sure that Washington University's faculty, staff, students, and supporters don't forget about the school's use of live cats for painful and terrifying medical training conducted in conjunction with St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Washington University folks will be confronted by images of cats like those who have tubes forced down their throats in the university's Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) course (most other PALS courses have upgraded to modern, sophisticated simulators) pretty much everywhere they look:

In Their Newspapers
Both the Washington University newspaper and the website of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch offer this reminder of the shameful practice:

While Filling Up
Gas stations near the campus will feature this hard-to-miss ad on top of their pumps:

Online
Even if people stay home, this Google ad should grab their attention:

How You Can Help These Cats

Please join us in telling Washington University and St. Louis Children's Hospital that it's time to get with the program and scratch cruelty to cats out of their curriculum.

Tags:

cats, animal experimentation, St. Louis, St. Louis Children's Hospital, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, St. Louis-Post Dispatch, Washington University

Recent Comments

TeresaD commented:

3-15-2012 6:14 PM

I live near UW and I would LOVE to be a part of a demonstration or picketting at the school! Is Peta or anybody game?
Jacqueline Schmidt commented:

2-21-2012 7:17 PM

Why is Washington University so behind in their technology when teaching the Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) course? Even the small group of hospitals I was recently employed by in my small community in southwest Michigan trains all of their physicians, nurses, LPNs, ambulance companies, et al, with the most updated of simulators. And so does every, single hospital & university that we know of! It makes me wonder what else Washington University is lagging behind in. It certainly wouldn't be my choice of schools, nor would it be a university I would support.
Irene WERNER commented:

2-18-2012 1:20 PM

Stop at once and forever such terrible and awful cruelties done to helpless animals. HORROR PUR !!!!!
Maria commented:

2-16-2012 7:38 AM

It is very cruel! As a mankind it is our duty to ban this cruelty! Please remember this a great man such as Gandhi was against vivisection! "I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence..." (Mahatma Gandhi)
janssens commented:

2-15-2012 1:49 PM

arrêtez d'utiliser des animaux pour les expériences car c'est de la cruauté,c'est ignoble de faire souffrir des animaux sans défense,ce sont des êtres vivants qui ne méritent pas de telles souffrances,les animaux méritent d'êtres respectés,et arrêtez ces pratiques criminelles,est ce que vous pouvez dormir la nuit en faisant ces horreurs sur ces pauvres bêtes,faites des expériences autrement car si cela se fait sur des humains là ce serait vite terminé,ceux qui font cela sur les animaux devraient le faire sur eux même,c'est si facile de faire souffrir des animaux sans défense
chander kumar soni commented:

2-15-2012 1:01 PM

please help animals.
Jalayne commented:

1-26-2012 9:22 PM

How can you sleep at night? Maybe you can't because of the nightmares you should be having.
Colleen commented:

1-26-2012 5:03 PM

Animal abuse is out of date. We do not need animal experiments in this day and age. If the experiments need to be done then use the people on Death Row, they have no reason to live and it would save the tax payers MONEY... Stop animal abuse!!!
Shelia commented:

1-26-2012 4:47 PM

Please help these animals.
Eszter Valyi Nagy commented:

1-26-2012 4:44 PM

Please stop these criminal practices on cats, dogs and ALL animals! The human being has no right to abuse the creation in this fascist way! Every creature has the right to live and die in dignity without the interference of any rascal and his whims! Torture is not education but crime!

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