Critter News
DECEMBER 24, 2010
Follow-up from the Utah scandal in which shelter animals were being sold for research purposes. The Davis County Commission has agreed to pay the legal fees of an animal rights group after settling a lawsuit over animal shelter records. PETA will have access to the requested records.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 29, 2009
Thanks to PETA's undercover investigation of University of Utah labs for bringing this issue to media attention. Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. Tags: animal research animal shelters strays.
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Critter News
SEPTEMBER 19, 2010
Awful story, but this is the reason I support PETA, even when they do wacky things sometimes. Quick work on the part of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), in partnership with the Humane Society of the U.S. Tags: animal abuse animal research cats North Carolina dogs PETA. Their investigations produce results.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 27, 2010
PETA's undercover investigation showed some really questionable practices going on in the University of Utah's animal research program. What if an animal doesn't make it through? What if an animal doesn't make it through? Tags: animal research university of utah animal shelters. So sad, too bad?
Critter News
JUNE 29, 2009
The Texas Attorney General ruled earlier this month that the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center can withhold records of a committee that oversees the use of animals in training and research. The university also purchased dogs from the shelter up until 2007, Carruth said. I bet there's probably some ugly stuff in those records.
Critter News
APRIL 4, 2010
Now animal shelters have the right to refuse to release animals to the University of Utah for animal research. Davis County Animal Shelter, a key supplier to the University of Utah, has already ceased this practice. Tags: animal research utah university of utah legislation PETA.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 28, 2010
Most of their animals get put down. Researchers told the Tribune that the testing gave the shelter animals "a second chance at life," while records obtained by the Tribune revealed that the labs had killed 116 of the 190 strays last year. Only 74 animals survived the research process to be adopted out as pets.
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