EXPERIMENTER SCRAMBLES OWLS' BRAINS WHILE THEY'RE STILL AWAKE.

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Dear Friend,

In a secretive basement laboratory, an experimenter cuts into barn owls' skulls to
expose their brains and attaches a metal device to their heads.

Then, they're crammed—fully conscious and wide awake—into a kind of
straitjacket. The experimenter clamps their eyes open and bombards them with
loud and distressing sights or sounds for as long as 16 hours while poking around
in their brains. They writhe and struggle, becoming increasingly desperate to
escape.

Eventually, their brain tissue is so severely damaged that they're deemed "unusable"
and killed.

Please help end the nightmare for animals like them by supporting PETA's "Stop
Animal Testing" Challenge with a gift of $5 or more right now. Every gift made before
the October 31 deadline, up to our $500,000 goal, will be matched!

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Unlike humans, barn owls don't experience attention deficit disorder (ADD). 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 ADD in
humans.

Mysore has admitted that these experiments are painful, yet he's failed to
reveal whether the owls receive any 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.

PETA is determined to keep owls and other animals from ever being condemned to
such horrifying, deadly experiments. Your donation to our "Stop Animal Testing"
Challenge today, even if it's as little as $5, will go twice as far to power our
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Mysore's hideously cruel experiments are a tremendous waste of federal dollars
and animals' lives—and owls aren't the only ones suffering.

Mysore is also electroshocking mice, severely dehydrating them, and forcing them
to learn to press certain levers for water "rewards" (in reality, the amount
that they need just to stay alive!) or subjecting them to bright lights as
punishment for "incorrect answers." It's unclear what he's even attempting to
observe in this taxpayer-funded torture.

Owls, mice, and other animals can't cry foul on these vile tests—but PETA can.
And our success in ending all animal experiments hinges on support from people like
you, Friend. Please pitch in while this special matching-
gift challenge is still active—our deadline is almost here!

From giant pharmaceutical companies and the biggest names in the food and
beverage industry to entire government agencies, PETA's determined team of
scientists and researchers is stopping every category of cruel experiments on
animals. That same determination is ending many experiments like Mysore's,
too—keeping experimenters at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from cutting
into cats' heads, deafening, 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're accomplishing with your help.

We won't rest until we win for the owls and mice trapped in Johns Hopkins'
basement of horrors—and the many other animals enduring torment and utter misery
in laboratories. Are you with us?

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Thank you for your compassion.

Kind regards,

Ingrid E. Newkirk
President
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