Ask University of Wisconsin to End Cruel Experiments on Cats!

PETA

BACKGROUND

For decades, the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) has allowed experimenters to conduct cruel taxpayer-funded “sound localization” experiments on cats like Double Trouble, a gentle orange tabby. In these experiments, cats have steel coils implanted in their eyes, holes drilled into their skulls, and electrodes implanted in their brains. Sometimes, they even have their ears cut off or are intentionally deafened by having a toxic chemical applied to their inner ear. They 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 to their skulls.

More than 200,000 people have already contacted the federal government to ask that funding for these experiments be halted.

But UW also shares responsibility for approving and allowing this horrific abuse. Please use the form below to contact the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents. Urge the board members to use their authority to halt these cruel experiments immediately.


ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND

This morning (2/7), Academy Award nominee and longtime PETA activist James Cromwell was arrested after he burst into a UW Board of Regents meeting to demand that university leadership take action to stop cats like Double Trouble from having holes drilled into their skulls, being deafened with toxic chemicals, having steel coils implanted in their eyes, and being killed and decapitated.

Campus police arrested James and his fellow protester but not before the board sat stunned and listened as Cromwell shouted, “This is not science! This is cruel! Shame on you!” and held up graphic blown-up photos of Double Trouble, one of the many cats who has been tormented and killed in UW-Madison’s disturbing brain experiments that we first exposed last year.


WHOM TO CONTACT

jbbartell@aol.com ; jbehling@wrpr.com ; mbradley@ruderware.com ; jrdrew29@gmail.com ; anthony.evers@dpi.wi.gov ; mjfalbo2@gmail.com ; thiggins@uwalumni.com ; tracyhribar.regent@gmail.com ; em@rgmlawec.com ; rmmillner@uwalumni.com ; katherinepointer@gmail.com ; cpruitt@abdata.com ; garyr328@aol.com ; brent@johnsflaherty.com ; markt@oemfab.com ; vasquez.josef@gmail.com ; dwalsh@foley.com ; gwhitburn@aol.com ; anottestad@uwsa.edu ; jradue@uwsa.edu ; jlathrop@uwsa.edu ; mrice@uwsa.edu ; board@uwsa.edu ; kreilly@uwsa.edu ; chancellor@news.wisc.edu


SAMPLE LETTER | SOURCE PETA, CHANTAL BUSLOT

To Whom It Concerns,

It was with horror and revulsion that I read of the grisly experiments carried out at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a continual basis, during which you subject innocent cats to the most excruciatingly painful ‘sound localization’ experiments. The cats have steel coils implanted in their eyes, holes drilled into their skulls, and electrodes implanted in their brains. Sometimes they have their ears cut off or are intentionally deafened by the application of a toxic chemical to their inner ear. They are then deprived of food for days untill hunger forces them to look in the direction of certain sounds, while their heads are immobilized by a bolt screwed to their skulls.

If this kind of torture was inflicted on cats by ordinary people they would be publicly shamed, prosecuted for animal cruelty, fined, and imprisoned. You are doing the very same thing under the guise of ‘science’ which in no way is any kind of justification.

You who promote and/or carry out these disgusting experiments deserve to be prosecuted, fined, and jailed for what you are doing, but you are allowed to hide behind your so-called scientific purposes. You should be ashamed. You are truly a disgrace to the human race, no matter what your qualifications are. You should be teaching kindness and compassion, not deliberately inflicting pain and torturing innocent creatures.

I am so very proud of James Cromwell for being brave enough to take a stand, and forcing you to confront what you are doing, allowing, and condoning.

I can only hope it has served to jolt you into a state of awareness, and that you will see the terrible error of your ways, and immediately put measures in place to ensure that these dreadful experiments are stopped forever.

Thank you for taking the time to read this urgent appeal.

NAME

we are cats
and we ask of you,
why do you the
cruel things to us
that you do.
drilling holes in our
heads,
destroying our ears.
we cry out in pain
and this you can
hear.
so someone out there,
help us now,
follow james cromwell’s
lead
and save us save us
somehow.
signed,
the feline residents of wisconsin-madison torture chambers!

Karen Lyons Kalmenson