Documented Cruelty inside Labs

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While undercover inside the laboratories of the University of Utah (UU), PETA's investigator documented rampant animal suffering and miserable living conditions, including the following:

Some experimenters and their staff discouraged animal caretakers from informing staff veterinarians when animals were suffering.
Mice whose back legs were paralyzed, rats suffering epileptic seizures, and mice with huge ulcerated tumors covering their bodies were left to suffer.
When veterinarians were informed of the suffering, they would sometimes take as a long as a week even to look at the animals.
A rabbit was left in a hallway without food or water for four days.
PETA's investigator routinely found mice who had been allowed to die without any care.
Some animals had been dead for days, and their cagemates had to walk around their bodies to get to their food and water.
After a homeless cat who was bought from an animal shelter for $15 gave birth at UU's laboratory, experimenters injected chemicals into her kittens' brains. They all died.
One monkey was kept in solitary confinement, caged alone in a room with no chance to interact with or even see others of his own kind.
Experimenters kept some monkeys constantly thirsty so that they would cooperate during experiments just to get a few drops of water.

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Taylor Walser commented:

6-4-2011 10:50 PM

Why is it okay for them to inject these poor animals with god knows what, not feeding them, and not giving them the treatment they deserve? Last time I checked animals feel pain & have feelings like we do. This is disgusting. If someone was to do to a human what is being done to these animals it would be considered MURDER.
Anonymous commented:

12-2-2010 1:09 PM

I havent slept since being made aware of these horrors!! I cant even imagine this kind of cruelty much less see it. Everyone of these people involved in this should be prosecuted to the full limit!! I pray every day for these poor animals and pray that God takes away their suffering. These are pets for heaven sake not that it would be any less cruel if they were not pets. I can only imagine the horror that these poor loving animals go thru on a daily bases. Father, please surround these animals with the white light of the holy spirit and bring them peace and end their suffering. In jesus name we pray amen!!
Margaret Ambrose commented:

9-17-2010 1:22 AM

I must tell the shelter how disgusting they are. How dare you say things like "loves to play" loves other dogs etc. How can you have any conscience to know the suffering these poor innocent animals will endure! Please stop torturing, brutalizing, these poor creatures!

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