No one at a University of Wisconsin–Madison laboratory showed Double Trouble any mercy.
Instead, a stainless steel post was screwed to her skull, and her body was shoved into a nylon bag so that she couldn't resist the experimenters. This was just one of many surgeries and experiments that she endured even as her health deteriorated. When she was no longer of use to experimenters, she was killed and decapitated.
This year, some 19,000 cats like Double Trouble will be forced to be part of some of the most horrifying experiments imaginable. Together, we must do more to stop their suffering.
It took years of powerful demonstrations, the support of celebrities like Bill Maher and James Cromwell, and the outcry of more than 360,000 PETA supporters to shut down the laboratory where Double Trouble and dozens of other cats were killed in archaic sound-localization experiments. With your help, we did it! But such appalling cruelty isn't limited to one laboratory.
Right now in universities—maybe even one just a few miles from your home—frightened cats, dogs, monkeys, and other animals are cowering in fear and enduring the pain of implantations, infections, electroshocks, burns, and more. While taxpayers are forced to cough up tens of billions of dollars for these crude experiments, each one of these animals will suffer and die for the rotten "science" behind these rotten tests.
Today, experimenters at the University of California–Irvine are intentionally deafening cats by either injecting a toxic substance into their ears or removing small bones in the inner ear. They then open the cats' skulls and insert an electrode into their heads, which pierces their auditory nerves. The animals used in this experiment are then killed.
In another experiment at the University of South Florida, seven cats were subjected to a procedure known as "suction decerebration," in which portions of their brain were intentionally destroyed. A tube was then inserted into the animals' mouth that forced water through their airway to induce a swallowing reaction.
Will you take action to help us end such nightmares today?Your support, which will double in impact until midnight on October 31, will give an immediate boost to PETA's work to get rid of entire categories of crude and deadly animal experiments.
Thousands of cats suffering in laboratories need our help. Please don't pass up this special opportunity to make a difference for them.
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