Posted December 8, 2011 by Rachelle Owen
He was a pretty, healthy, brown tabby cat when his guardians took him to a Michigan animal shelter in the hope of finding him a new home. But a heartless shelter director, a shady animal dealer, and a university hell-bent on abusing animals in crude and painful medical training exercises took away his chance at a happy ending.
This cat, known only as "E8269," was taken from an animal shelter and killed in U-M's Survival Flight course.
Knowing full well that he would end up in a lab, the Gratiot County Animal Shelter turned the cat over to notorious Class B animal dealer R&R Research, which in turn sold him to the University of Michigan (U-M).
Another cat who was subjected to this cruel intubation laboratory, 8312, had been obtained from someone who gave her away “free to a good home.” The cat was illegally acquired by R&R before being sold to U-M.
The stories of 8269 and the other cats killed by U-M were uncovered when PETA obtained records from Gratiot County and U-M. They reveal that U-M officials—including the director of the Survival Flight program—have shamelessly lied to the public by repeatedly stating in a newspaper opinion column, comments to the media, and official statements that the cats used in the archaic Survival Flight lab are always adopted out afterward.
U-M officials have also been misleadingly claiming for a year that modern human-patient simulators can’t replace the cat laboratories, even though these simulators are already used in the place of animals to teach intubation to doctors and nurses in other courses at U-M.
You can help prevent more cats from being tragically killed like 8269.
E-mail U-M officials NOW!
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458 days ago
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Sick and repulsive I can hardly bare some of the horrors I read each day about the suffering of animals especially in Labs,now when i read this about the cats,it is very upsetting especially when they were obtained illegally and should of went to proper loving homes,did all the other cats get stolen or was taken illegally by false pretences to be tortured.I feel so sorry for the cats that have suffered,I love cats and in 1970 I to had my cats taken illegally,they set up a office asking for people who have cats they could give them a home until they were rehomed to families I didnt know any better because I was 14 yrs old and my cat had kittens and so on,found out it was fraud when I phoned to see how my cats were.. made me upset to think I had sent my babies to a Lab and they trusted me so much,so it can happen anywhere and I live in the UK,but it doesnt make it right,I hate lies and the disgusting way they treat animals like a concentration camp..I will never stop till I die or this ends for animals..
490 days ago
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…and Michigan U. takes refuge in a lie – how lame!
494 days ago
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UM cat experiments and tourture and death and lies are disgusting! This story has gone viral on the net and U of M is paying for their actions as it should be
494 days ago
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Stop lies and killing innocent cats. The experiments are useless and you all should be ashamed for the torture you have put these animals through. STOP!
495 days ago
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It is a holocaust… This is so sad…
495 days ago
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those who engage in those type of procedures learn only how to become indifferent to any form of suffering and that torture is OK.
497 days ago
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That is vile, absolutly vile, how the hell are people willing to do that?? That is no different to shoving it down a humans throat repetedly, but worse as cats are smaller. I dont even like cats that much but i have to say that is disgusting and they must be pretty sick minded people if they can do such a vile thing
525 days ago
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this just makes me sick. those people have no hearts for anything but stupid science and themselves. they dont understand that the pain that they go through just for them to get some stupid test results that mean absoultly nothing at all. they all should go to jail and the ones that were lost at this cruel place should be remembered.
526 days ago
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jesus and god love all, including animals! what makes people think we are so special!??
528 days ago
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I cried when i read this
528 days ago
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This breaks my heart :’(
530 days ago
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FREAKING BASTARDS! THERE OUGHTTA BE A LAW TO PUNISH THEM !!
531 days ago
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I can’t believe people actually do that!
You can cross that school off your cruelty free school.
531 days ago
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Another reason why I have absolutely no desire to attend U of M…So going to Michigan State.
531 days ago
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I’m gonna put these cats in my book! (It’s about a parrot in the mexican black market who escapes and starts a mass worldwide aninal rebellion
) Oh, and I sent them an email!
531 days ago
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I’ve always preferred State to U-M, and now I have another reason why! This is TERRIBLE!!!!
Go Spartans!
530 days ago
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MSU is way worse, in their gross anatomy class for first year veterinary students, they are still using animal cadavers from animals that were bred for that purpose. They should be using client donated bodies instead. This is in use at many other vet schools around the country. I would rather go to UM where at least they are starting to reduce their animal use as opposed to breeding animals and killing them to teach vet students when there are so many people willing to donate.
531 days ago
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you would think they would atleast have the balls to admit to what they did, but i guess not
531 days ago
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This is horrible! UM SUCKS!!
531 days ago
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Actually, they’re one of the best schools in the country. It’s the Survival Flight department that sucks.
531 days ago
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this is disgusting.
531 days ago
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Disgusting