Charge Animal Abusers At North Carolina Research Lab: Sample Message & Vital Shelter/Adoption Information
Updates, Alert, and Sample Message courtesy of Kinship Circle
UPDATE: Nearly 200 dogs and 54 cats are safe, but the abusers must be charged:
CLICK HERE TO TAKE ACTION (Please note that you will a few invalids.)
Tortured by lab staff who kicked, slammed and dragged them — animals from Professional Laboratory and Research Services, Inc. get a second chance. The Corapeake, NC lab was forced to close and surrender its “test subjects” after a PETA investigation uncovered diseased and wounded dogs, cats and rabbits. Over 9 months, PETA’s investigator recorded staff brutalizing terrified animals. One worker used pliers to wrench teeth from a frantic dog. Another tried to pull out a cat’s claws.
PLRS closure is a portal to the routine abuse that occurs in ALL labs. Animal experimentation itself causes creatures to convulse, bleed, stagger, die. Imagine being overdosed with poison or cut apart while restrained. There isn’t one animal experiment today that couldn’t be replaced by non-animal research tools. But animals come cheap and old habits die hard. Still, for PLRS animals, there is hope. Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) — working with about 12 regional shelters/rescues — have taken in the lab’s surviving dogs and cats. At this time, Kinship Circle does not know the fate of any rabbits. We do know that PLRS killed rabbits upon conclusion of experiments.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Put the abusers behind bars! Urge law enforcers to charge/penalize PLRS. Tell animal researchers they aren’t exempt from cruelty laws:
SHELTERS & RESCUES WITH DOGS/CATS FROM PLRS:
Animals will be in quarantine and rehab before up for adoption/foster.
Contact shelters below to inquire about rescued animals from PLRS.
Check shelter websites for updates.
As of 9/18/10: No mention of where rescued cats are sheltered, only the dogs.
- Associated Humane Societies (NJ) 973-824-7080
- Beagles to the Rescue (VA) (4 beagle girls) 757-204-4411
- Carteret County Humane Society (NC) 252-247-7744
- Guilford County Animal Shelter 336-297-5020
- Elizabeth City SPCA (VA) — (15 PLRS animals) 757-344-3033 / To adopt-foster, contact Sabrenna or John: 252-338-5222
- In Dogs We Trust (FL) (18 PLRS dogs) 561-400-7732,
Nicole@trustthedog.com - Norfolk SPCA (VA) — (38 PLRS dogs) 757-622-3319
- Triangle Beach Rescue (NC) — info@tribeagles.org
- Virginia Beach SPCA (VA) — 757-427-0070
- Wake County Animal Control/Adopt. Ctr. (NC) — 919-212-7387, animalcontrol@wakegov.com
- Wake County SPCA (NC) — 919-772-2326
- Washington Animal Rescue League (DC) — 202-726-2556, adopt@warl.org
SOURCE OF INFORMATION:
• North Carolina Product Testing Lab Exposed
• Undercover Investigation Documents Misery for Dogs, Cats, and Rabbits
• Investigator’s Notebook
• PETA says video shows cat, dog abuse at NC lab
• Disturbing Laboratory Animal Abuse
• North Carolina Cruelty Statutes
PLRS Dog Rescue
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SURELY cruelty like this should NEVER be allowed, and the evil, cruel scum who are abusing these poor defenceless animals should be charged with gross animal cruelty. Even if they try to get out of it by saying that the Government accepts these experiments (though WHY), – SURELY the fact than these vile people treat these innocent creatures so badly: hitting, kicking them and dragging them around etc…..I think ALL animal experiments should be stopped, but this wicked, evil place should most definately be closed down and the animals that are (hopefully) still alive should be allowed to have a decent life with loving owners. I think the people who are torturing these poor animals are the sort that really get off on the power of abusing defenceless creatures….and his type of sub-human should NEVER be allowed to be around any animals, whatever the situation.
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