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samantha (disgusted, horrified, saddened)
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Date Posted: Saturday, March 31, 06:56:14pm
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In reply to:
jayson
's message, "Boycott Iams and Animal Cruelty" on Friday, February 13, 10:27:41pm
><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://iamsodead.com">http://iamsodead.com</a>
>
>see also
>
>iamscruelty.com
>
>For nearly 10 months in 2002 and early 2003, a PETA
>investigator went undercover at an Iams contract
>testing laboratory and discovered a dark and sordid
>secret beneath the wholesome image of the dog- and
>cat-food manufacturer: dogs gone crazy from intense
>confinement to barren steel cages and cement cells,
>dogs left piled on a filthy paint-chipped floor after
>having chunks of muscle hacked from their thighs; dogs
>surgically debarked; horribly sick dogs and cats
>languishing in their cages, neglected and left to
>suffer with no veterinary care.
>Iams lied to PETA with promises to improve the
>conditions for dog and cats in its contract
>laboratories, even assuring us that enrichment
>programs were already in place, but our undercover
>investigator saw otherwise. She fought for six months
>to have a single cheap, rubber toy placed in each
>cold, lonely kennel. This is Iams’ idea of enrichment.
>
>Our video footage shows Iams representatives touring
>the facility and witnessing dogs’ endless circling in
>barren cells, sweltering in the summer heat. Iams knew
>the truth yet did nothing to protect the animals.
>
>The dogs and cats in Iams’ tests are no different from
>our dogs and cats at home when it comes to deserving
>companionship, play, a stimulating environment, and
>the right not to be tormented in painful experiments.
>
>Luckily, caring consumers know that advances in
>nutrition don’t have to come at the expense of animals
>in labs. Help PETA force Iams to end these painful and
>unnecessary tests, as many compassionate companies
>have already done.
>
>Our investigator videotaped Iams representatives
>touring the facility. They saw the sad, distressed
>dogs. They felt the sweltering heat and humidity in
>the kennels. Then they walked out. But the animals
>couldn’t.
>
>An Iams veterinarian inspecting a group of dogs
>purchased from a USDA Class B dealer did nothing when
>he saw that a mother dog who had just given birth in a
>cement kennel had been provided with no bedding to
>rest on. A puppy and an adult dog from that group died
>during our investigation, most likely the result of
>neglect and temperatures that fell below 34 degrees in
>the building.
>
>An Iams “behaviorist” saw dogs spinning in their cages
>out of madness and yet said nothing. An Iams cat
>dental researcher even overheard two employees talking
>about animals who were treated inhumanely at the
>facility yet Iams continued to conduct business there
>as usual.
>
>Despite assurances in the Iams research policy that no
>animal would ever be killed, our investigator
>documented the destruction of 27 out of 60 dogs who
>underwent an invasive procedure that involved having
>huge chunks of muscle cut out of their legs. Two more
>of those dogs were found dead in their cages after the
>surgery; one had been suffering for 11 days prior to
>her death.
>
>When our investigator reported that Humbug, an Iams
>dog, was limping, she was told by a vet tech that the
>laboratory had an x-ray machine that dated back to the
>1960s but no film for it and that the director of the
>laboratory preferred to kill, rather than treat,
>animals with broken bones. In addition, Fifi and the
>other dogs used in Iams’ metabolic studies were bled
>by the laboratory in order to sell their blood to
>other companies even though the studies do not call
>for blood draws.
>
>Finally, shortly before our investigator left, the lab
>director told the vet techs to debark all the Iams
>dogs as he was being disturbed by their desperate
>cries for attention. Our investigator e-mailed Iams
>researchers in Dayton with this information, hoping
>that Iams would intervene. But all she got was the
>sickening sight of a lab technician covered in blood
>after a day of performing the debarking surgery.
>
>When our investigator resigned, she told the Iams
>representative and the lab director that she was
>leaving because despite her best efforts, nothing was
>being done to enhance the desperately boring, lonely,
>harsh lives of the animals. The Iams representative
>admitted that both he and the lab director were from
>the “old school.”
>
>WHAT OUR INVESTIGATOR FOUND: Iams’ Den of Horrors
>
>
>Iams dogs dumped on cold concrete flooring after
>having huge chunks of muscle cut out of their thighs
>
>dogs and cats gone stir-crazy from confinement; dogs
>and cats in windowless, dungeon-like buildings
>
>a coworker who instructed her to hit the dogs on the
>chest if they quit breathing; another coworker who
>talked about an Iams dog found dead in his cage,
>bleeding from his mouth
>
>a dog who limped in pain from Lyme disease
>
>cruel studies done by Iams involving sticking tubes
>down dogs’ throats to force them to ingest vegetable
>oil
>
>Iams dogs with such severe tartar buildup on their
>teeth that it was painful for them to eat
>
>vet technicians with inadequate training and
>experience performing invasive procedures
>
>coworkers who talked about a live kitten who was
>washed down a drain
>
>coworkers who talked about how they had to go home
>because the ammonia fumes in the animal trailers were
>so overpowering that it made their eyes burn (try
>being one of the animals in those cages!)
>
>cats kept in a cinderblock room with crude wooden
>“resting” boards that had nails sticking out of them;
>one of the boards fell on a cat, crushing her to
>death, while our investigator was there yet the lab
>director did not remove the boards when the cat was
>crushed—he removed them when he was told that the lab
>was going to be inspected because he knew they were
>illegal
>
>
>You can help stop this from continuing another day, go
>to the link above and email Iams to stop their horrid
>treatment of animals. Pass this information on to
>friends, and especially to anyone who feeds their pets
>Iams pet foods. Boycott Iams completely, it is the
>only way to get them to stop killing animals.
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