A special chance to stop the torture
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TEXAS A&M'S THREE-STEP PLAN FOR RUNNING A DOG TORTURE LAB HURRY! Your gift will be matched through midnight Wednesday and go straight to helping us free these dogs and other animals suffering at the hands of experimenters:
STEP ONE: BREED DISEASED DOGS The horrifying experiments started nearly 40 years ago, when a researcher at Texas A&M University acquired two golden retrievers with canine muscular dystrophy. This painful disease causes a lifetime of unbearable suffering. Muscular dystrophy is a genetic disease. Until we stopped them, Texas A&M experimenters were intentionally breeding puppies who would carry the dreaded disease—dogs who were literally born to suffer. ![]() This is Rusty, one of the original pair of dogs bred to create puppies for canine muscular dystrophy experiments. He died in the laboratory when he was just 6 years old. STEP TWO: EXPERIMENT ON DOGS AND WATCH THEM SUFFER Problem: Puppies born with muscular dystrophy are too weak to suckle. Problem: At 6 weeks old, afflicted puppies' hind legs may shift forward. They may be too weak and malformed to allow the dogs to walk. Problem: At 10 weeks, all movement becomes a struggle. Weakness in the jaws causes excessive salivation and makes swallowing difficult. STEP THREE: LEARN NOTHING TO HELP It's apparently not enough to know that the disease causes massive suffering. Experimenters want to know just how much a dog's muscles have deteriorated. To find out, they use a motorized lever to S-T-R-E-T-C-H the dog's limbs and RIP muscles apart. Then they cut chunks of muscle out to study. ![]()
After 40 years of suffering and disease ... after four decades of metal cages, extreme pain, and early deaths ... after countless ruined lives, broken hearts, and small lifeless bodies ... … after all that, the findings from these deadly experiments on dogs haven't helped humans. They have led to no cures. They have led to no treatments that reverse disease symptoms. They have only caused suffering and death for sensitive, trusting dogs. PLEASE help us end this cruelty TODAY while your gift will go twice as far. We must shut down Texas A&M's muscular dystrophy laboratory and push toward ending entire categories of experiments on animals by 2025—and you can help by giving right now to keep our work going strong.
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