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For decades, experimenters at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) have
been conducting cruel and useless taxpayer-funded "sound localization"
studies in which cats have steel coils implanted in their eyes, holes
drilled into their skulls, and electrodes implanted in their brains.
Sometimes, cats used in this experiment have had their ears cut off or are
intentionally deafened by having a toxic chemical applied to their inner ear
. The cats are then deprived of food for several days in order to coerce
them to look in the direction of sounds during experimental sessions in
which their heads are immobilized by a bolt screwed into their skulls.
Internal UW documents and photographs obtained by PETA in response to a
successful lawsuit detail the miserable life and death of one of the cats, a
gentle tabby named Double Trouble, who was abused and killed in this
barbaric experiment. In one instance, Double Trouble woke up while
experimenters were cutting into her head. Following a series of invasive
surgeries, she developed infections, became lethargic and depressed, started
to twitch, and suffered paralysis in half her face. After UW deemed the
experiment a failure, the experimenters killed and decapitated Double
Trouble so that they could examine her brain. A former UW veterinarian who
oversaw the treatment of Double Trouble and other cats used in this
laboratory recently issued a letter confirming this abuse, stating that many
of the cats "suffered unnecessarily."
Experimenters have justified the use of 30 cats like Double Trouble per year
in this cruel project not by saying that it would enhance human health but
by stating that they needed to "keep up a productive publication record that
ensures our constant funding."
Shockingly, the federal government continues to support this irrelevant and
deadly project and has provided UW with more than $3 million in grant money
to abuse animals—even though researchers at other institutions around the
world are already using modern methods with human volunteers to investigate
how the brain locates and processes sound.
You can help our efforts by contacting the National Institutes of Health and
urging the agency to cut funding for this crude and deadly project. |
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