If you care about cats, here are some things you need to know. The following information may be shocking. But please read on - the kittens and cats captive on campus and in laboratories elsewhere right now need your help.

   Oxygen Deprivation - In 1998, one of the ARC’s vivisectors published results of his experiments on cats. He first reduced the available oxygen in the air they were breathing by half. He left them in this oxygen depleted environment for two weeks. Following this the cats’ carotid body (an area of the carotid artery) was no longer functioning normally. He noted that even if the nerves to the structure were cut, it still acted abnormally after prolonged oxygen deprivation. -- vivisector: Salvatore J. Fidone

   Spinal Cord Injuries - “The array has been designed to be implanted in the peripheral nerves, and will provide up to 100 channels or neural communication. We will evaluate the recording and stimulating capabilities .. in acute experiments in feline sciatic nerve... The information recorded can be used to control the motor stimulation of efferent fibers to achieve a reliable control of a cat’s ankle and foot movements when walking on a treadmill.” -- vivisector: Richard A. Norman

   Eye Damage - One vivisector damages the eyes of cats and records the results. His research history includes similar work on turtles, monkeys, goldfish, chickens, and rabbits. -- vivisector: Robert E. Marc

   Cutting Into Their Brains - Audie G. Levanthal has been cutting into living cats' brains and eyes here at the University of Utah since at least 1975 and has moved on to monkey's within the past few years.

But Aren’t These Experiments Necessary to Save Human Lives?

No, absolutely not. There are better ways to study human physiology, disease, and injury than inducing disease or injury in a different, sentient species. Clinical human studies, autopsies, epidemiology, human tissue studies, and imaging technology are only some of the numerous better ways to study human health and disease. One doctor has remarked:

... due to known differences in neuroanatomy between humans and cats.. animal models cannot prove hypotheses about humans.” --Stephen R. Kaufman, MD