It's hard to imagine that some big-name dog and cat food companies test their products on animals, but the pet industry is big business, and in order to slap labels reading "new and improved" on to their products, some corporate competitors conduct cruel animal experiments on dogs and cats. PETA Investigator Eyes Iams For almost 10 months, a PETA investigator worked undercover in a laboratory where Iams and Eukanuba tested their products on animals. Here's what she saw and heard: Iams dogs dumped on a cold concrete floor after having huge chunks of muscle cut out of their legs Dogs and cats gone stir-crazy from confinement in windowless, dungeon-like buildings A worker who told her to hit the dogs on the chest if they quit breathing Dogs who were force-fed vegetable oil Dogs with such rotten teeth that it was painful for them to eat Workers who complained because the urine fumes in the animal trailers were so overpowering that their eyes burned (imagine being one of the animals in those cages 24/7!) Cats were kept in a cinderblock room with crude wooden "resting" boards that had nails sticking out of them. When one of the boards fell on a cat and crushed her, our investigator told the lab director. But he didn't bother to remove the boards, which he knew were illegal, until he learned that the lab was going to be inspected.
Tell Iams officials that you won't buy their food until the company stops imprisoning dogs and cats in labs. Contact: Jeffrey P. Ansell, President, Iams Company 8100 Manor Hill Ln., Cincinnati, OH 45243 customer.service@iams.com 1-800-675-3849. Join our scrapbook petition. Send us a photo of yourself and your animal companion with a sign telling Iams that you're not buying while dogs and cats are dying. Visit IamsCruelty.com for more info and more on our efforts to stop Iams' cruel tests.