University of Michigan using cats in medical experiments

A perfectly healthy grey tabby cat was taken by his owners to an animal shelter in Michaigan. The family believed they'd find him a new home. Instead the director of the shelter was a shady animal dealer, sold him to a sadistic university that tortured and abused him for painful medical training experiments.

The staff at Gratiot County Animal Shelter turned the cat over to the Class B animal dealer R&R Research, which in turn sold him to the University of Michigan. Here he wasn't given a new name or a new life. He was assigned an ID number of 8269. He was tormented every hour that he was at the University in the nurses training labs. They used cruel intubation techniques on him and he wasn't alone. He was abused right along with a female, Number 8312 was obtained from somebody who posted a "free cat to good home" ad on the internet. 8312 was illegally acquired by R and R Research before she was sold to the University of Michigan. When the lab was finished with these babies, they were murdered. Cats kept as pets become so trusting and it makes me sick that these people think nothing of violating that precious trust.

The fate of 8269 and so many other cats at the University were exposed when PETA got hold of records from Gratiot County and the University of Michigan. These records show that the University officials—including the director of the Survival Flight program—have blatently lied to the public by repeatedly telling the news media that the cats used in the Survival Flight lab are always adopted out afterward.

I don't hold PETA in high esteem myself because their organization has been exposed for euthanizing more animals than they help and also being deceptive about it. PETA kills animals by the thousands that fact is indisputable. But they are pretty good at pointing fingers and calling out other organizations.


You can help prevent more cats from being betrayed like 8269 by emailing University of Michigan officials demanding that they replace the use of cats in these labs with the superior human-patient simulators that the school already owns.