Three actions to help chimpanzees, ferrets, and mice

Please take action on the below issues.  Additionally, OC will re-publish alerts via sponsor sites (such as PCRM or Born Free) because they are requesting additional participation.  Also, the targets typically change, too.  For example, OC already published a previous alert via PCRM about the ferret use in the Washington Peds Program, but the target has now changed to the President of the school versus a person teaching the program.


1. Ask Your Senators and Congressperson to End Chimpanzee Experiments

2. Ask the University of Washington to End the Use of Ferrets in its Pediatrics Residency Program

3. Urge Ortho to Stop Selling Cruel Mousetrap


1. Background | From PCRM

Please send e-mail that asks your members of Congress to support the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act. This important legislation will end the use of chimpanzees in invasive experiments, permanently end federal breeding programs, and release federally owned chimpanzees to permanent sanctuaries. We have provided text for you, but if you decide to write your own message, please be polite and encouraging. Here are some talking points:

• The Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act is a bipartisan bill that makes sense—ethically, scientifically, and financially.
• Chimpanzees in laboratories suffer similarly to human victims of trauma and it is unethical to continue to use them in experiments.
• Only 20 percent of chimpanzees in laboratories are used in research while the others are warehoused at taxpayer expense.
• Research funding would be better spent on superior modern research and testing methods, such as ethical, human-centered studies, mathematical modeling, and in vitro testing.

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2. Background | From PCRM

Please take a minute to ask University of Washington president Michael Young to replace the use of ferrets in the school of medicine’s pediatrics residency program with validated human-based training methods. We have provided text for you, but if you decide to write your own message, please be polite and encouraging. Here are some talking points:

1. Please replace the use of animals in UW’s pediatrics residency program.
2. Anatomical and physiological differences between ferrets and humans render this type of training suboptimal.
3. UW is part of a shrinking minority of pediatrics residencies (7 percent) that still use live animals for training.
4. High-fidelity simulators such as Gaumard’s Premie HAL and PREMIE Blue accurately replicate the airway of a premature newborn and allow for data collection.
5. UW already has a state-of-the-art simulation center that can easily provide nonanimal training methods.

3. Background | From PETA

chimpanzees
ferrets
and mice
at the hands
of man
not very nice
when will the so
called human race
realize that he does
not own this space
he shares it with others
our animal brothers

Karen Lyons Kalmenson