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ANIMAL LOVERS PLEASE TAKE NOTE:
Iams and Eukanuba: Bad for Cats' and Dogs' Lives
Advertisements for Iams and Eukanuba-brand dog and cat food show happy animals frolicking across lawns and snuggling up to guardians. What they don show is the pain and suffering inflicted on animals in Iams-funded tests that most people don even realise the pet-food maker is conducting.
The cruel experiments that Iams conducts on animals are not necessary and are not required by law. Many companion-animal food companies conduct humane, in-home studies using animals who have been volunteered by their guardians and perform chemical analyses to test the palatability and composition of their products.
A History of Abuse
In 2001, The Sunday Express printed information from published papers detailing gruesome, often fatal experiments conducted by Iams laboratories on dogs and cats. Among other abuses, the tests involved the following:
nbsp;Deliberately inflicting chest wounds on 36 dogs in order to test fur regrowth based on diet
nbsp;Overfeeding 24 cats to obesity, then starving them until they lost 30 percent of their weight, in order to study weight loss and liver disease
nbsp;Removing the right kidneys and damaging the left kidneys of 24 dogs to study kidney failure
nbsp;Surgically exposing the stomachs of 28 cats in order to observe the effects of fiber on their diets
In September 2001, following these revelations, Iams met with PETA, claiming that it had turned over a new leaf and would ot fund or participate in any study requiring or resulting in the euthanasia of cats or dogs Furthermore, Iams said that it would not conduct any nutritional studies on animals that would not be acceptable on humans.
PETA Uncovers the Truth
For nearly 10 months in late 2002 and early 2003, an undercover PETA investigator worked at an Iams contract testing laboratory in the United States. She videotaped Iams representatives visiting the laboratory and witnessing animalscircling endlessly from boredom and loneliness or simply sweltering in the heat and humidity of the kennels. Iams did nothing to improve these cruel conditions. Meanwhile, the company was telling PETA and the public that the dogs and cats used in its tests lived like royalty.
During her time at the lab, PETA investigator witnessed an Iams veterinarian inspecting a group of dogs purchased from an animal dealer licensed to source animals from shelters. The Iams vet ignored a mother dog who had just given birth in a cement kennel and had no bedding to rest on. The investigator was instructed by a coworker to hit dogs on the chest if they stopped breathing during biopsy surgeries.
PETA investigator also witnessed the following:
nbsp;Dogs dumped on concrete flooring after huge chunks of muscle had been cut out of their thighs 27 of the 60 dogs who suffered this invasive procedure were killed, and two others were found dead in their cages
nbsp;A dog limping in pain from Lyme disease
nbsp;Dogs forced to swallow vegetable oil through tubes shoved down their throats
nbsp;Dogs with such severe tartar buildup on their teeth that it was painful for them to eat
nbsp;Cats kept in a cinderblock room with wooden estingboards that had nails sticking out of them (one of these cats was crushed to death by a falling board)
nbsp;Dogs who were bled so that their blood could be sold to other laboratories
PETA investigator overheard these remarks:
nbsp;Coworkers talking about a live kitten who was washed down a drain
nbsp;Coworkers saying that the ammonia fumes coming from animal trailers were so overwhelming that they had to go home
nbsp;The lab director telling the vet technicians to surgically debark all the dogs because he was irritated by their cries for attention
nbsp;A vet technician explaining that since the lab existing X-ray machine dated from the 1960s and there was no film for it, the lab director preferred to kill rather than treat animals with broken bones
What You Can Do?
Never buy Iams Company products. Call, write, e-mail or fax Iams and its parent company, Procter & Gamble, and tell them that you won be buying Iams or Eukanuba for your animal companions until they stop conducting laboratory experiments on animals. They should rely instead on chemical analyses of formulas for nutritional composition and in-home studies with dogs and cats whose human companions have volunteered them for such tests.
Also, contact your local animal shelters, rescue groups and companion-animal supply stores and ask them not to purchase or promote Iams products. Visit our Web site at IamsCruelty.com for more information on how you can help end the suffering of thousands of animals in Iams laboratories.
Brands to Boycott
Main culprits for cruel and unethical animal testing are the major international 'pet' food businesses.
The majority of pet food brands available in the UK are produced by two animal testing companies - "NestlPurina/Friskies" and "Pedigree, Masterfoods (Mars Inc)."
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NestlPurina/Friskies: Alpo, Bonio, Felix, Go Cat, Gourmet, Omega Complete, Proplan, Spillers, Vital Balance, Winalot.
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Pedigree, Masterfoods (Mars Inc): Bounce, Cesar, Chappie, Frolic, James Wellbeloved, Katkins, Kitekat, Pal, Pedigree Chum, Royal Canin, Sheba, Techni-cal (US & Canada), Whiskas. Pedigree also manufacture Thomas rabbit food and Trill bird food.
NB Techni-Cal (Europe) although not owned by Pedigree, Masterfoods (Mars Inc) is still a company to boycott as they have not signed up to the BUAV No Animal Testing Standard.
So far, none of the supermarkets have pledged to produce their foods without unethical testing processes.
Support Brands That Do Not Test on Animals
UK
Burns Pet Nutrition
01554 890482
www.burns-pet-nutrition.co.uk
Europa Pet Foods Ltd
08456 580987
www.europa-pet-food.co.uk
Fromm Family Foods
www.frommfamily.com
Available in the UK from Postal Pet Products Ltd
01531 633985
www.postalpetsproducts.co.uk
Harbingers of a New Age
(completely vegan)
www.vegepet.com
available in the UK through the Vegan Society
01424 427393
www.vegansociety.com
Leander International Pet Foods Ltd
01273 833390
www.ardengrange.com
Naturediet Pet Foods Ltd
08700 132955
www.nature-diet.co.uk
Top Number
08000 182955
Trophy Pet Foods
01367 243434
www.trophypetfoods.co.uk
Yarrah Organic Petfood B.V. (has vegetarian options)FONT color=#ff0000>NEW
+31 341 432736
www.yarrah.com
USA
Active Life Pet Products
1-877-291-2913
www.activelifepp.com
AmorPet Services, Inc.
1-866-572-6673
www.amorepetfoods.com
Animal Food Services
1-800-743-0322
www.animalfood.com
Artemis Pet FoodFONT color=#ff0000>NEW
1-800-282-5876
www.artemiscompany.com
Azmira Holistic Animal Care
1-800-497-5665
www.azmira.com
Burns Pet Health, Inc.
1-877-983-9651
www.burnspethealth.com
Canusa International
519-624-5697
www.canusaint.com
CountryPet Pet Food
1-800-454-7387
www.countrypet.com
Dr. Harvey
1-866-362-4123
www.drharveys.com
Dry Fork Milling Co.
1-800-346-1360
Dynamite Marketing, Inc.
208-887-9410
www.dynamitemarketing.com
Evanger Dog and Cat Food Co., Inc.
1-800-288-6796
www.evangersdogfood.com
Evolution Diet, Inc. (entirely vegan)
1-800-659-0104
www.petfoodshop.com
Good Dog Foods, Inc.
732-842-4555
www.gooddogfoods.com
GreenTripe.Com
831-726-3255
www.greentripe.com
Halo, Purely for Pets
1-800-426-4256
www.halopets.com
Happy Dog Food
1-800-359-9576
www.happydogfood.com
Harbingers of a New Age (entirely vegan)
406-295-4944
www.vegepet.com
Holistic Blend
1-800-954-1117
www.holisticblend.com
The Honest Kitchen
858-483-5995
www.thehonestkitchen.com
Know Better Dog Food
1-866-922-6463
www.knowbetterdogfood.com
KosherPets, Inc.
954-938-6270
www.kosherpets.com
Kumpi Pet Foods
303-699-8562
www.kumpi.com
Natural Balance Pet Foods, Inc. (has vegan options)
1-800-829-4493
www.naturalbalanceinc.com
Natural Life Pet Products, Inc. (has vegan options)
1-800-367-2391
www.nlpp.com
Nature Variety
1-888-519-7387
www.naturesvariety.com
Newman Own OrganicsFONT color=#ff0000>NEW
www.newmansownorganics.com
PetGuard (has vegan options)
1-800-874-3221
904-264-8500
www.petguard.com
Pied Piper Pet & Wildlife
1-800-338-4610
www.piedpiperpet.com
PoshNosh Inc.
613-747-1542
1-866-893-4006 (Outside Ottawa-Outaouais)
Raw Advantage, Inc.
360-387-5158
www.rawadvantagepetfood.com
Rocky Mountain Natural Products
1-877-768-6788 (Eastern U.S.)
1-800-665-5521 (Western U.S.)
www.rmtnp.com
Sauder Feeds, Inc.
260-627-2196
www.sauderfeeds.com
Stella & Chewy LLCFONT color=#ff0000>NEW
718-522-9673
www.stellaandchewys.com
V-dogfood LLC (entirely vegan)FONT color=#ff0000>NEW
1-888-280-8364
www.V-dogfood.com
Veterinary Nutritional Formula
1-800-811-0530
www.vnfpetfood.com
Wow-Bow Distributors Ltd. (has vegan options)
1-800-326-0230
www.wow-bow.com
Wysong Professional Diets (has vegan options)
1-800-748-0188
www.wysong.net
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