Texas A&M University has spread lies about its former canine program (which ended thanks to PETA), censored comments on Facebook and YouTube, and banned a man with muscular dystrophy (MD) from visiting their campus – and now we’re calling. another deception. Peter Nghiem, a lead experimenter at MD’s canine laboratory, lied when he publicly stated that healthy dogs would be adopted after being used. Some of them were. But now the university has quietly translated nine of them into Another campus laboratory.
This group includes cannoli. He was originally sent up for adoption, but was betrayed by the school when he was struck off the adoptive list and transferred to a second lab.
Cannoli was born in captivity in the TAMU Canine Muscular Dystrophy Laboratory. This healthy young dog was eventually sent for adoption, but then betrayed: instead of being allowed to return to a loving home, he was sentenced to further imprisonment and pain in a toxicology laboratory.
Texas A&M is desperate to keep dogs in sterile labs
Here’s another recent Texas A&M lie: When a Texas state representative approached the university with a request for the remaining dogs in his MD lab, he was told that everything of these have a canine MD and must be kept in school for 24-hour veterinary care. This is clearly not true –less than half dogs still housed at Texas A&M are afflicted with canine MD. It looks like the program also has little funding for experimentation. So why is the university coming up with reasons to keep stocking these dogs?
As Texas A&M continues to lie, more dogs die
PETA offered to take the remaining dogs and put them in loving homes, but the university did not respond. Instead, he forces them to live in sterile laboratories, devoid of the safety and comfort of a loving home.
More recently, two dogs diagnosed with MD from a colony named Garen and Grinch had to be euthanized. The Grinch suffered from excessive salivation, persistent vomiting, muscle atrophy, and pressure sores on all four legs. Several times heaps of vomit were found under Garen’s nursery. He often left some of the food uneaten and began to lose weight. The last days – or even weeks – of couples have probably been in excruciating pain.
It’s too late to help Garen and the Grinch. Texas A&M has failed them in the worst possible way, but that does not mean that the remaining 19 dogs still trapped in the trap should also suffer. That’s why PETA echoes our call for the university to release the remaining dogs for adoption in a letter to the new president of Texas A&M.
Help PETA keep the pressure on Texas A&M
PETA’s campaign to end the school dog breeding program included attention-grabbing protests, celebrity actions, multiple lawsuits, calls, support from 500 doctors, and testimonials from people with MDs.
We’re not done yet. Help PETA convince Texas A&M to close the lab, release all adoption dogs to good homes, and redirect resources to humane research methods:
Call on texas a & m to close their dog lab