Petition: Help End Barbaric Dog Experiments at Wayne State University

Public records reveal that staff at Wayne State University cut open the chests of dogs, insert devices, and tunnel cables and wires under the animals’ skin and out between their shoulder blades. The dogs who survive the intensive surgeries are forced to run on treadmills while experimenters drastically raise their heart rates using implanted devices. This is repeated for days, weeks, or even months—depending on how long each dog can withstand it. By design, every dog will eventually die during the experiments—when their bodies give out or an implanted device breaks or malfunctions.

Many dogs die due to severe internal bleeding, which causes blood to pool around their lungs, making it hard to breathe. Some dogs are found dead in their cages.

Wayne State has wasted more than $15 million in public money on these heart failure experiments since 1991 without providing any benefit to patients. After more than three decades, the university claims the experiments show “potential”—but there is no evidence of progress. Meanwhile, Wayne State has killed hundreds of dogs.

Please sign this petition to demand that Wayne State end these painful, deadly, and unnecessary dog experiments.

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