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n2doc

(47,953 posts) Mon Jun 2, 2014, 03:09 PM Jun 2014

Anger as report exposes kitten experiments at top universities

Animal campaigners have reacted angrily to reports that top UK universities had been performing “repulsive” experiments on lab test cats and kittens.

According to claims outlined in a report by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) the animals were paralysed, had their skulls cracked open and had electrodes stuck on their brains, ribs and spines in a series of treatments designed to help scientists understand the human body better.

In some experiments, it was claimed kittens were raised in “complete darkness”, while others had their eyelid stitched closed to analyse problems surrounding ‘lazy eye’. Other cats had their lungs deliberately collapsed and were given paralysing drugs to stop them from moving during the procedures.

A document seen by Mail Online listed ten universities that allegedly carried out the controversial practices including University College London, Cardiff University and the University of Glasgow.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/anger-as-report-exposes-kitten-experiments-at-top-universities-9474017.html

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Anger as report exposes kitten experiments at top universities (Original Post) n2doc Jun 2014 OP

Do you remember Bill Frist "Dr. Mengele Of The Cat World" yortsed snacilbuper Jun 2014 #1

I remember that bastard n2doc Jun 2014 #2

I think animal abusers should have done to them what they did to the animals they abused. Louisiana1976 Jun 2014 #3

I will never fathom the minds of people who do this sort of thing. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2014 #4

All testing on animals iamthebandfanman Jun 2014 #5

I would gently suggest that those upset by this practice should refrain from using any drugs Android3.14 Jun 2014 #6

yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts)

1. Do you remember Bill Frist "Dr. Mengele Of The Cat World"

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 03:19 PM

Jun 2014

"Frist is an animal lover who said his decision to become a doctor was clinched when he helped heal a friend's dog. But Frist now found himself forced to kill animals during medical research. And his new dilemma was finding enough animals to kill.

Soon, he began lying to obtain more animals. He went to the animal shelters around Boston and promised he would care for the cats as pets. Then he killed them during experiments. 'It was a heinous and dishonest thing to do,' Frist wrote. 'I was going a little crazy.'"

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n2doc

(47,953 posts)

2. I remember that bastard

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 03:32 PM

Jun 2014

I can't post what I wish would happen to him.

Louisiana1976

(3,962 posts)

3. I think animal abusers should have done to them what they did to the animals they abused.

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 04:09 PM

Jun 2014

Unfortunately experimenting on animals is legal so those who do that don't suffer any penalties.

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

4. I will never fathom the minds of people who do this sort of thing.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 04:21 PM

Jun 2014

iamthebandfanman

(8,127 posts)

5. All testing on animals

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 05:41 PM

Jun 2014

is repulsive... not just kittens.

I invite anyone to see for themselves what cosmetic companies and drug companies do to animals like Rabbits.

no animal should suffer and be tortured so someone can 'look pretty'...

humans are truly sick sometimes...

Android3.14

(5,402 posts)

6. I would gently suggest that those upset by this practice should refrain from using any drugs