Barn owls don't experience attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Yet Johns Hopkins University experimenter Shreesh Mysore is receiving millions of dollars—much of it from U.S. taxpayers—to torture these highly sensitive birds in sadistic, curiosity-driven tests, which he ludicrously claims will help him study ADHD in humans.

Mysore has admitted that these experiments are painful, yet he's failed to reveal whether the owls receive adequate pain medication or care after repeated invasive procedures. He even keeps some birds for inexperienced staff to practice surgeries on—while other imprisoned owls are forced to breed and produce the next generation of victims.

Owls can't cry foul on vile tests and terrifying mistreatment—but PETA can, and our success in ending all animal experiments hinges on support from people like you. Please pitch in $2 during our special matching-gift challenge to have twice the impact for frightened animals in laboratories.

From the moment we exposed Mysore's grisly experiments and other suffering at Johns Hopkins, the outcry has been tremendous. Nearly 200,000 caring people have taken action for owls online, and through many eye-opening demonstrations and hard-hitting ad blitzes in Baltimore, we're raising people's awareness of the torment funded by their tax dollars—and empowering Johns Hopkins' students to demand better from the institution.

Our determined team of scientists and researchers is shutting down many experiments like Mysore's—keeping experimenters at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from cutting into cats' heads, deafening them, and killing them and derailing the government gravy train that funded pointless and gruesome experiments on mice at the University of Pittsburgh. PETA has stopped painful decompression studies on sheep and starvation experiments on birds and shut down a government-funded baby-monkey psychological testing laboratory. And that's only scratching the surface of all that we've been able to achieve together.

We won't rest until we win for the owls trapped in Johns Hopkins' little shop of horrors—and the many other animals who are being terrorized in laboratories. Are you with us?

Thank you for your compassion.

Kind regards,

Ingrid E. Newkirk
President