Posted May 27, 2011 by Christina
After receiving a disturbing report and photos from a distraught John Jay High School (JJHS) student who claims that another student stole a dead cat from a dissection laboratory and placed the cat’s body on a student’s car as a cruel joke, PETA sent an urgent letter to JJHS Principal Robert Harris calling on him to investigate the incident and prevent similar future occurrences by replacing animal dissection with humane and modern alternatives which PETA has offered to donate to the school. Harris has confirmed that those responsible for the prank are being disciplined accordingly and that the school is currently considering PETA’s offer to donate modern, computer-based anatomy software to replace cat dissection.
peta2 has said time after time that encouraging students to cut open dead animals encourages a belief that animals are nothing but classroom tools, to be used and thrown away.
Each year in the U.S., an estimated 10 million animals are killed for dissection. Many come from biological supply companies, which breed some animals and capture other animals from their wild homes. These companies also purchase stray, lost, and abandoned cats from animal shelters or from “bunchers”—dealers who illicitly obtain animals from backyards and streets in the U.S. and Mexico.
Want to help stop pranks like this? Don’t dissect. Thirteen states have dissection choice policies—if your state isn’t one of those 13, click here!
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603 days ago
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sick *astards those who did it ….
What kind of person takes pleasure from torture and even think of doing this…?
WTF is going on with these people?!?!?!
672 days ago
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This is atrocity. These animals need our love!!
707 days ago
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that is sick and disgusting! Im glad i dont disect!
715 days ago
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I’m still crying over this. what a sad, sad and disturbing thing to do, oh that poor cat. I knew that frogs and fetus’s, and pig’s were used – but cats? I just can’t imagine. I love my kitty, to think of someone doing that to my sweetheart makes me ill.
718 days ago
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some people are really messed up…
723 days ago
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That is revolting, those students need to be expelled! It’s sickening! I’d cry if i walked out to find that poor animal on my car
724 days ago
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How many times does this have to happen? Please get dissection cut out in your schools!
724 days ago
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Disturbed Student..
725 days ago
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Poor kitty it looks so in need of life.
725 days ago
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WOOT! I’m in 1 of the 13 states! But this is gross and sad and disgusting. Poor cat and distressed student… But that doesn’t look like a cat.