UK: Kitten experiments at Cardiff University

Please support the BUAV in calling for Cardiff University to end controversial experiments on cats and kittens.

25/07/2012

This week the BUAV exposed shocking experiments that have taken place at Cardiff University where some kittens were raised in complete darkness while others were deprived of the sight in one eye by having their eyelids sewn shut.

The kittens were then anaesthetised, artificially ventilated and paralysed with a drug to prevent eye movements. They were then subjected to highly invasive head surgery and their brains exposed for recordings.

After various tests, all the kittens were killed and parts of their brain dissected.

Source: Petition
Author: BUAV

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