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Dear Aaaaaaa, Robert was a cat like one you'd find in any animal shelter: curious, friendly, and eager to find a home with a family who would love and care for him. That eagerness didn't keep the shelter where he was staying from selling him to a University of Utah laboratory for $15. There, an experimenter drilled into Robert's skull and implanted electrodes in his head, beginning a series of crude tests in which electric currents were fired into his brain to make his legs move involuntarily. After each experiment, Robert—renamed "F09-017" by the school—showed signs of trauma: He became tired and groggy, and he vomited repeatedly. A PETA eyewitness investigator worked for more than eight months inside the laboratory where Robert was tormented, documenting the intense suffering of the cats, dogs, monkeys, rabbits, mice, and other animals confined there. What the investigator found was sickening. Robert was not the only animal subjected to invasive brain tests—experimenters drilled holes into primates' and rats' skulls, too. Monkeys were locked by themselves inside steel cages and kept constantly thirsty so that they would do what experimenters wanted in exchange for a sip of water. And soon after a litter of eight kittens was born in the laboratory, the cats' brains were injected with a chemical that caused fluid to build up. All eight died when their severely distressed mother stopped nursing them after the experiment. Ultimately, Robert was one of the lucky ones: On the heels of our disturbing investigation, he was released from the laboratory and placed up for adoption—and as a result of this case, Utah legislators amended the state's pound-seizure law so that government-run animal shelters could choose not to sell animals for experimentation. But more animals are now suffering inside laboratories, where they are treated like living test tubes. We must put an end to cruel, archaic testing on animals, but we cannot do it without your help. Thank you for all that you do for animals. Kind regards, | |||||||||||||||
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Electrodes attached to a cat's brain
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