Who would sew a monkey's eyes shut?!

Britches' misery began the very night he was born.

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	Experimenters pulled Britches from his loving mother's side—and then sewed his eyes shut. Help PETA stop this kind of horrendous cruelty: Make a gift today.   Dear Aaaaaaa, On the very night he was born, experimenters pulled Britches—a helpless baby macaque—from his distraught mother's side. They sewed his eyes shut with crude, thick thread and strapped a bulky, heavy sonar device that made a constant screeching sound to his tiny head. Then the experimenters locked him inside a barren wire cage—alone—with nothing to cling to but a wire device wrapped in a dirty cloth. Will you help us do more to stop such cruelty by making a gift today? Even $5 can help. Britches suffered in total isolation at a laboratory at the University of California–Riverside (UC-Riverside) where experimenters too lazy to travel to work with actual human children who had been born blind "blinded" him instead. Then one night, rescuers crept into the laboratory and took Britches and 700 other animals to safety. The other animals included cats with one eye sewn shut, rabbits and pigeons who had been starved, and opossums whose eyes had been mutilated before they were old enough to leave their mothers' pouches. PETA publicized the photographs, videotapes, and documents obtained by the rescuers. As a result, nearly half of the experiments from which animals were saved were never resumed and the school stopped allowing baby monkeys' eyes to be sewn shut. PETA is leading the global battle to stop animal tests, and we need your support to accomplish even more. PETA has led the movement to end the use of animals in experiments, trauma training, and cosmetics tests since our first days, and we've never slowed down. Free the Animals by PETA President Ingrid Newkirk—a riveting bestseller about the rescue of Britches and other animals from the hands of experimenters—led many people to consider for the first time the misery hidden behind laboratory doors. With your support, our determined team of scientists, researchers, and campaigners is making constant progress. In only the last few months, we've secured bans on crude experiments by huge corporations, including Johnson & Johnson and The Hershey Company. And after years of pushing by PETA, the Chinese government approved two non-animal methods for testing cosmetics products that will spare animals the agony of having substances dripped into their eyes and rubbed onto their skin. While all this progress is encouraging, we can't press a pause button on this lifesaving work, not even for a second—not while wonderful sentient beings continue to suffer in thousands upon thousands of painful experiments. Please, make a gift of $5 or more to power our work against cruel, archaic experiments on monkeys and other animals. Thank you, as always, for your generosity and compassion. P.S. Thankfully, Britches the baby macaque was one of the many animals rescued from that horrible laboratory at UC-Riverside. After months of care from a sympathetic veterinarian who removed the stitches from his eyes, his vision returned, his scars healed, and he became healthy enough to be sent to a sanctuary where he could romp and play with other monkeys. Your support means that more animals like Britches will get a shot at a brighter future—please donate today.
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