https://www.change.org/p/12396661/u/21742327
20. Okt. 2017 — Schon Anfang nächster Woche soll unsere Petition an die genannten Stellen versendet werden. Bitte teilt die Petition nun noch einmal kräftigt, erzählt es weiter, schickt sie weiter an eure Freunde, Bekannte und Nachbarn. Danke euch!
https://www.change.org/p/12396661/u/21732043
19. Okt. 2017 — Am kommenden Samstag machen Tierschützer mit einer Mahnwache vor dem Eingang des Nordklinikums Nürnberg auf das Leid von Versuchstieren aufmerksam. Zur Nacht der Wissenschaften werden viele Besucher erwartet. mehr Infos unter: https://www.facebook.com/events/1868907183423110
4. Okt. 2017 — Auch die Augsburger Allgemeine berichtet über die geplanten Versuche an Mäusen und Ratten und die damit verbundene Kritik.
Tierversuche stoßen auf Widerstand
http://www.peta.org/action/action-alerts/texas-university-dog-laboratories/
At Texas A&M University, experimenters led by Joe Kornegay breed golden retrievers to develop different types of muscular dystrophy (MD), including Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), which is particularly severe. These diseases ravage their bodies, causing progressive muscle wasting and weakness. Studies with these dogs haven’t led to a cure or even a treatment to reverse disease symptoms.
Video footage shows that Kornegay’s appallingly thin dogs were caged, sometimes alone, in barren metal cells and struggled to swallow thin gruel—the only food that they could eat, given how easily they could choke. Long ropes of saliva hung from the mouths of dogs whose jaw muscles had weakened. Even balancing was difficult. Dogs with this condition are also at great risk for pneumonia because they can easily inhale liquid into their lungs.
Dogs who didn’t have the disease but carried the DMD gene were used for breeding. Deprived of loving homes, they frantically paced the slatted floors and bit the bars of small cages in frustration. They didn’t even have the comfort of a blanket.
To gauge just how much a dog’s muscles have deteriorated, Kornegay has invented a crude technique that could pass for medieval torture: He repeatedly stretches them with a motorized lever in order to cause muscle tears.
Kornegay has been at this for more than 30 years. Puppies in his laboratory who are born with DMD are so weak at birth that they require extra nutrition. By 6 weeks of age, their hind limbs have shifted forward, making walking difficult, and some are unable to open their mouths or jaws.
Please urge Texas A&M University to close their dog laboratories, stop breeding MD dogs, release all dogs for adoption into good homes, and redirect their resources into humane research methods.
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