Accompanying the recent news that “researchers” at the University of Wisconsin are continuing to conduct obscene animal experiments in the tradition of the demented Harry Harlow, evidence unearthered in a PETA lawsuit reveals that the school has still more secrets in its closet.
Their subject was a cat named Double Trouble.
Experimenters began
by screwing a steel post into her skull and implanting electrical devices deep inside both her ears. After being deprived of food for several days to coerce her into cooperating in exchange for a morsel of food, they bolted her head into place, restrained her in a nylon bag and forced her to listen to sounds coming from different directions.
Double Trouble. (Photo: University of Wisconsin)
Her health rapidly deteriorated.
Records say that she was observed twitching, which the clinical notes indicate was a “neurological sign.” Her face became partially paralyzed and the head wound that experimenters created during surgery never healed.
She endure almost two months of this misery.
One of the last entries in her records states that she “appear[ed] … depressed.” In the end, experimenters noted she was too ill to continue and that the device they had implanted did not work, so she was killed and decapitated so her brain could be dissected. A former UW-Madison veterinarian who oversaw the treatment of this cat and others recently issued a letter confirming this abuse, stating that many of the cats “suffered unnecessarily.”
(Photo: University of Wisconsin)
For a more detailed—and gruesome—look at what happened, see this video.
No peer-reviewed papers have been published in any scientific journals as a result of the suffering the cat endured.
Correspondence between UW experimenters and their collaborators conclude that the experiment was a failure because there was a problem with the cat’s surgery.
This experiment is part of a larger project that has received more than $3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with the stated purpose of understanding how the brain determines the location of a sound.
Experimenters justified the use of 30 cats per year not by saying that the experiments would lead to improvements in human health but rather by stating that they needed to “keep up a productive publication record that ensures our constant funding.”
Source: PETA
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This is horrible! Your last sentence was the most impactful.
as me an young age this made me cry in 2021 knowing people ate cats and killed and tortured them.. :<
How can I get the word out? When I reblogged this, most of my friends refused to read or click the video. How can I bring this front and center when most refuse to listen? Whenever I speak about the egregious acts happening to animals — all animals from domestic pets to farm animals the first reaction I get is, “I don’t want to know.” followed by hands, palms facing me, as if to block out what I am about to say. It’s too bad we couldn’t mount this on a billboard or TV Commercials.
It would be good to know what you expect humans who respond to this with empathy to do. You offer no ‘out’ ie no form of reasoned expression that this is not something that we as members of this species designate as a norm. In fact, it violates us. But where can we say so?
Start with people you know. Tell them what you learned. Tell them it’s wrong. Speak out. This kind of “science” is accepted as a “norm” only because it’s been conducted since modern biomedical research began post WWII in total secrecy. (PETA had to sue to get the records of what happened to Double Trouble.) What happened to this one animal is the tip of the iceberg. And it’s happening as we speak in labs throughout the country and the world.