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Experimenters wrenched Britches from his mother's side—then sewed his delicate eyes shut.

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Dear Aaaaaaa,

On the very night Britches was born, experimenters wrenched the helpless baby macaque from his distraught mother's side.

Soon afterward, 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 they locked him inside a barren wire cage—alone—with nothing to cling to but a wire device wrapped in a dirty cloth.

Your gift to PETA's "Stop Animal Testing" Challenge before October 31 will go twice as far to help protect monkeys and other animals from such cruelty, up to our $500,000 goal. Will you pitch in just $5 or more today?

Britches suffered in total isolation inside a laboratory at the University of California–Riverside, where experimenters "blinded" him because they couldn't be bothered to work with actual human children who had been born blind.

Then one night, Britches and 700 other animals—including cats with one eye sewn shut, rabbits and pigeons who had been starved, and opossums whose eyes had been mutilated—were pulled out of that hellish laboratory.

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. Since then, we've helped end other cruel experiments on baby monkeys, including dreadful maternal-deprivation experiments at the National Institutes of Health, in which infant monkeys were torn away from their mothers at birth, terrorized with loud sounds and fake snakes, addicted to alcohol, and isolated in cramped cages in order to worsen their psychological distress. We won't stop until no more baby animals are torn away from their mothers, terrorized, and treated as living laboratory equipment.

Since our very beginning, PETA has been leading the way in stopping animal tests. Your support today will DOUBLE to help us accomplish even more and spare millions of animals like Britches tremendous suffering. Even $5 can make a difference!

With your support, our determined team of scientists, researchers, and campaigners is making constant progress. Here are just some of our victories in recent months:

With more than 160,000 compassionate people speaking out in the U.S. alone, our campaign against Volkswagen persuaded the car company to end ALL tests on animals, including horrific inhalation tests conducted on macaque monkeys who were locked in chambers and forced to inhale diesel fumes for hours on end.
After PETA worked with a whistleblower to expose Louisiana State University's practice of purchasing living and dead dogs from an animal shelter for use in deadly classroom training exercises, the state passed legislation that prohibits shelters from selling live animals to laboratories for experimentation.
PETA and our affiliates are making huge progress against the cruel forced swim test—pressuring pharmaceutical giants, including Johnson & Johnson, AbbVie, and AstraZeneca, to ban it, and preventing countless mice and rats from being dropped into containers of water and nearly drowning.

While all this progress is encouraging, we can't press the "pause" button on this critical work, not even for a second—not while wonderful sentient beings continue to suffer in thousands upon thousands of painful, deadly experiments.

Please, make a gift to power our efforts against cruel, archaic animal testing—every dollar you give will be MATCHED to do even more for animals.

Thank you, as always, for your generosity and compassion.

Kind regards,

Ingrid E. Newkirk
President

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P.S. Thankfully, Britches 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 him will get a shot at a brighter future—please make a gift that will be doubled today.