by PCRM
We are asking a Michigan agency to investigate Wayne State for violating state law. Dog 3002 was a healthy beagle, just 21 months old, when the university killed him on May 1, 2024. He wasn’t sick or suffering like hundreds of other dogs who have had devices implanted in them at Wayne State.
Dog 3002 hadn’t yet been subjected to the university’s painful heart failure experiments in which dogs are run to death on treadmills. Records from his last day of life include these revealing words: “failure to acclimate to treadmill training required for study participation.”
Public records obtained by the Physicians Committee reveal dog 3002 spent more than a year in a windowless, basement cage at Wayne State. The records also show how the university fabricated reasons to kill him. First, he had a cut smaller than one inch long on his paw that employees claimed had a “poor” prognosis even though they failed to properly treat it. Then, the employees misdiagnosed bacteria found on a skin culture. But on his last day, his records state he was “A+A”—alert and active. Then they killed him.
According to an outside veterinarian who reviewed the dog’s records, the university put in “minimal effort to provide appropriate care.”
Wayne State’s actions are not only cruel—they may have violated a Michigan law, which requires that adoptable dogs and cats used in experiments be offered a chance at a life outside the lab. Dog 3002 was adoptable. His only “flaw” was not being useful to the experimenters.
A few days ago, the Physicians Committee and the Humane Society of Huron Valley asked the Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development to investigate Wayne State. And state Senator Dayna Polehanki urged the university to cooperate with any investigation and halt its experiments once and for all.
The National Institutes of Health has given Wayne State almost $15 million since 1991 for these experiments that haven’t benefited patients. Tell the NIH to cancel this funding immediately!
Thank you for speaking up for dogs like 3002!
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
5100 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Suite 400, Washington, D.C. 20016
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