Fw: Help PETA save animals in laboratories

 

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From: Ingrid Newkirk donore@peta.org
 Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 6:21 PM
Subject: Help PETA save animals in laboratories

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			Dear Cindy, Tiger's intake report showed that he was a healthy, friendly cat when he entered a University of Michigan (U-M) laboratory. Five days later, Tiger was dead. While Tiger's name before he was taken to the laboratory may never be known, once there he was treated as little more than a label, a cat known as "E8269." Given his stripes, we're honoring this handsome cat with a name more befitting him, Tiger. Like the cats many of us share our homes with, he probably enjoyed being scratched behind the ears and purred when he saw his food dish. But U-M officials certainly didn't care about Tiger's likes and dislikes when they tossed him into their intubation training lab—a grim laboratory in which cats had plastic tubes forced down their windpipes—and then killed him. Please support PETA's urgent efforts to stop the cycle of abuse and cruelty occurring at the University of Michigan and in other laboratories by making a special online gift right now. PETA exposed the abuse of animals in the University of Michigan's Survival Flight training program. We showed that university officials misled the public when they said that all the cats in their labs—healthy, lovable cats like Tiger—were adopted after they endured hideous procedures in the course. In fact, records show that more than half of the cats used in recent years were quietly killed. PETA's exposé and vigorous campaigning caused a public uproar. Unable to ignore our fury, U-M announced that it had ended its use of cats in its laboratories—a wonderful victory for cats! The cats have been replaced with modern, effective simulators. But U-M plans to continue to harm and kill pigs for other procedures in this training course. That means that gentle, intelligent pigs will have holes cut in their throats and chests and needles jammed into the tissue surrounding their hearts and will ultimately be killed just as cats like Tiger were. Thankfully, we care, and I know that you care about animals—cats and pigs—so I'm asking for your help. Won't you make a donation right now to help PETA fight for the replacement of pigs at U-M with simulators and support all our lifesaving efforts to expose and stop cruelty in university laboratories or wherever it occurs? Your past support has helped strengthen PETA's fight against animal testing. Will you take a moment to add your voice to those who are speaking out for animals condemned to painful, invasive animal tests like those conducted by the University of Michigan? We're building momentum—and our efforts have saved cats from this hideous abuse at U-M. But pigs continue to suffer at U-M, and millions of other animals are suffering right now in cruel chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics tests, biology lessons and training exercises, and horrible experiments. Your contribution today will be put to work immediately to help animals condemned to die in tests like these. I hope I can count on your support today. Together, we will pressure the University of Michigan until it stops subjecting any animal to cruel training exercises. Thank you in advance for supporting PETA in this urgent campaign. Very truly yours, Ingrid E. Newkirk President P.S. PETA is proud that we were able to save other cats from this agony at U-M. But we need to end the entire system of abuse there and at other universities and medical schools nationwide. Make a donation today to support our work to end the suffering of animals in laboratories!
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Fwd: Exposé Prompts Charges, Cats' Seizure From No-Kill 'Rescue'

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From: PETA <do-not-reply@peta.org>
Date: February 27, 2012 10:59:27 AM CST
Subject: Exposé Prompts Charges, Cats' Seizure From No-Kill 'Rescue'
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Dear Cindy, A part of Lilly's iris protruded through her ruptured cornea, a painful condition that was likely caused by an untreated infection. Lilly suffered for months before she finally died on January 31, 2012. Imagine that your family has packed you up and shipped you across the country to a total stranger. You are surrounded by others who are also stressed, terrified, and confused. The stench is overwhelming, and disease is rampant. You cannot get away from the insects—they swarm around you, cover your eyes, and fly into your nose. There are maggots and roaches in the food. When you fall ill, a stranger forcefully grabs you and scrubs your face with a Clorox wipe, burning your eyes. You wonder why your family did this to you, and you do your best to cope and survive. This is just a glimpse into what hundreds of cats likely went through when they were left at Caboodle Ranch, Inc., a "rescue sanctuary" in Madison County, Florida. PETA's latest undercover investigation exposes the reality that nearly 500 cats confined to the "no-kill" facility faced each day: an essentially one-person operation with no paid full-time help that subjected animals to severe crowding, filth, disease, neglect, suffering, and a miserable death. Based on PETA's evidence, officials are seizing Caboodle's animals and charging its founder and operator, Craig Grant, with cruelty! PETA's video shows that Grant denied cats effective veterinary care for rampant upper-respiratory infections, sometimes with fatal consequences. PETA's investigator routinely brought to Grant's attention the suffering of individual cats at the facility, but requests and offers to rush even dying cats for emergency medical attention were often dismissed. Grant left Lilly whose iris protruded through a ruptured cornea, to deteriorate for four months. She lost vision in the eye and became critically ill. Lilly died, without veterinary care, on January 31. PETA's investigation found that Grant allowed cats who were sick with fatal, contagious illnesses to roam freely and come into contact with cats not known to be ill; that cats were easily able to escape the facility's perimeter fence; that Grant roughly rubbed cats' faces with Clorox wipes to "clean" them; that Grant intentionally hid cats who were in obvious need of medical care that he was not providing; that cats had gnats and other insects swarming around them and were forced to endure disgusting living areas covered with vomit, trash, and waste and infested with roaches and maggots; and that Grant allowed cats to breed. In addition, cats' remains were left to rot on the facility's grounds—PETA's investigator found bones in the woods on Grant's property. Read more about PETA's findings and watch our undercover video here. A dangerous bill is currently making its way through Florida's legislature. Animal shelters would be forced to hand over animals to self-proclaimed, unregulated animal "rescues" like Caboodle if the misleading "Animal Rescue Act" (S.B. 818 and H.B. 597) becomes law. PETA is calling on the bill's sponsors to withdraw the legislation. Please help us make sure that this happens by contacting legislators now. Thank you. For all animals, Daphna Nachminovitch Vice President Cruelty Investigations Department People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

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Fwd: Tell Chinese Laundry to Ditch Fur!

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From: PETA <do-not-reply@peta.org>
Date: February 7, 2012 11:50:21 AM
Subject: Tell Chinese Laundry to Ditch Fur!
Reply-To: PETA <do-not-reply@peta.org>

Dear Cindy, Despite knowing about the suffering that goes into every fur-trimmed shoe, hat, scarf, and coat, Chinese Laundry continues to sell items containing fur. We need your help to speak up for the millions of animals on fur farms who spend their entire lives confined to cramped, filthy wire cages. Please don't shop at Chinese Laundry and let the company know why you won't buy its products anymore! Take a moment to send a message to Chinese Laundry's executives urging the company to dump fur for good. To contact Chinese Laundry, please click here. Please forward this message to friends, family members, and coworkers. Thank you for your support and for speaking up for the millions of animals who suffer on fur farms. For all animals, Kristina Addington Corporate Affairs Coordinator PETA