Group Places Ads on Madison-Area Gas Pumps Showing Gruesome Photos of Cat Mutilated in School Laboratory
For
Immediate Release:
November
20, 2012
Contact:
Tasgola
Bruner 202-483-7382
Madison, Wis. -- As Madison residents gear up for the busy holiday travel season, they'll get a shock at the pumps — and not just from the gas prices.
PETA has placed ads on top of gas pumps in five Madison-area gas stations showing graphic photographs from inside an infamous University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW) laboratory, where a gentle tabby cat named Double Trouble and dozens of other cats were abused and killed as part of a taxpayer-funded experiment.
The ads, which can be seen here, feature shocking photographs of Double Trouble restrained in a bag with a steel post screwed into her skull. PETA obtained the photographs after a three-year legal battle against UW. They were taken by the experimenters as part of an abusive experiment, in which cats also have steel coils implanted in their eyes and electrodes inserted into their brains, are starved for days at a time, and are intentionally deafened.
"UW fought for more than three years to conceal the evidence of Double Trouble's miserable life and drawn-out death because it knew that the public would be outraged if the truth ever came to light," says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. "PETA's new ads will let people see UW's cruelty with their own eyes every time they fill up their gas tanks."
Following PETA complaints, the National Institutes of Health is investigating apparent violations of federal animal welfare regulations and apparent misuse of federal funding related to these cruel experiments.
For more information, please visit PETA.org/DoubleTrouble.