There is a desolate, terrifying place where frightened dogs are cowering in barren metal cages … where some suffer from swollen tongues and weakened jaw muscles that make it difficult for them to swallow even the thinnest gruel … where dogs with a painful canine form of muscular dystrophy (MD) struggle to walk, eat, or sometimes even breathe.
This nightmare has been playing out in laboratories for almost 40 years—and at Texas A&M University (TAMU) for the last eight.
As you read this, there are still 25 dogs warehoused in the school's laboratory—at least 12 of whom are healthy and could be quickly adopted into loving homes. We can't relent now—these dogs need us.
Despite decades of such torturous experiments on dogs, there's still no sign of a cure—or even a treatment—to reverse the devastating symptoms of MD in humans.
Since PETA first revealed the suffering of dogs at TAMU, compassionate people have flooded the university with e-mails and phone calls and plastered eye-opening comments across its social media pages—all demanding that the school stop experimenting on dogs and release every single individual who's imprisoned there. Our campaign is working: The university has shut down its hideous breeding program, many of the nearly 100 original dogs have been adopted by families, its lead canine MD experimenter has retired, and TAMU is now so desperate that it's attempting to censor free speech on its social media pages (even after agreeing not to as the result of a groundbreaking PETA lawsuit for its previous attempts).
But 25 dogs are still imprisoned in the school's laboratories along with countless other animals. Please, help us keep the pressure on TAMU and other institutions to make animal tests a part of history and instead focus on modern, non-animal research methods.
Thank you for everything that you do to help the dogs at TAMU and the other animals who need us.
Kind regards,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President
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