Researchers at Gothenburg University in Sweden are planning to kill six Labradors this month in the final stage of a cruel and invasive medical experiment.
Venus, Milia, Mimosa, Luna, Lotus, and Zuri are the unwilling participants in dental research at the university. During their incarceration, researchers have removed one-third of their teeth and inserted implants. By the time the experiment comes to an end, the dogs will have been put under anesthesia six times.
The experiments are designed to study how effectively a new style of dental implant integrates with human tissue. Dogs are chosen as subjects because they have similar saliva and oral bacteria to humans.
Swedish animal rights organization Djurrättsalliansen (Animal Rights Alliance) have been fighting to save these dogs, so far to no avail. In spite of a petition which garnered more than 80,000 signatures, the university says they still plan to kill the animals. They state that the euthanasia is an essential part of the research, as the bone, tissue, and blood needs to be tested; procedures that are impossible on a live animal.
In spite of repeated requests, the university has declined to meet with animal advocates to discuss the experiments.
Thousands of people have protested on Gothenburg University’s Facebook page, and British comedian Ricky Gervais and vegan actor Peter Egan have also spoken out asking the university to spare the lives of the Labradors.
Join the fight and urge the University of Gothenburg to do the right thing by saving lives of these innocent dogs and investing in animal-free testing methods instead.
Send your emails to the university here, urging them to spare these dogs:
Since when do we have the same saliva as a dog? We have NOTHING the same as a dog. That is why this is junk science just done for grants and sums of money paid by taxpayers. .
Please save these beautiful dogs ! Ban ALL EVIL animals reasearch and experiments ! Prayers that homes are found for all of them. These dogs are living creatures and all living creatures have a right to live and to their own lives.
To Ben: would you please sign petitions for dogs, cats, bulls, and all other nonhuman animals who are abused, tortured and murdered? [email protected]
THIS NEEDS TO STOP! This is so unfair to them! Find a human being to do this to!!!!!!!!!!! GOD HAVE MERCY ON THESE INNOCENT ANIMALS!
Dental work is cruel. Especially unnecessary dental work done on animals without anaesthetic.
I don’t agree in this experiment and I don’t support cruelty or ignorance I support in protecting animals
STOP THE HORRIFIC TORTURE and ABUSE OF DOGS! This is 2019 !!!
Stop experimenting now disgusting and deplorable serve animal cruelty
The people who commit these crimes against these innocent beings are the scum of the earth, stop the killing stop the torture!!!
This doesn’t say very much for the swedes. How can they kill these beautiful animals..if you go ahead with this you’re MONSTERS
petitions for dogs always get more support than petitions for cats.. even tho they feel the same pain. so I don’t sign petitions for dogs.. I don’t care what they go thru.
So the cruelty of your “not caring what dogs go thru” makes you not only a hypocrite, it makes you a despicably ignorant one, for you are not only acting on a potentially false assumption, but you are thereby openly admitting to supporting cruelty towards dogs, ***all while actively ignoring your OTHER, POSITIVE CHOICE in the matter*** — to do a GOOD thing by pointing out this injustice and helping both kinds of animals.
SHAME ON YOU. True animal lovers don’t make such idiotic and deliberately harmful distinctions. Now be gone.
Who says, Sam? There are equally petitions for cats and there are equal comments. Just because you don’t like dogs, you’re ok with them suffering. That’s really sick. Next time you see a story on cat cruelty I suggest you look at ALL the comments. With your attitude towards dogs, maybe we’ll be reading a story here on L.F.about how you beat up a dog and we’ll be writing to law enforcement to prosecute you, Sam..
Here is my letter I’ll be sending to the University. If anyone wants to use parts of its argumentation for their own letters to save time, I have no objections.
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Dear Sir or Madam:
It has come to my attention that researchers at Gothenburg University are planning to kill six dogs this month in the final stage of a needlessly cruel and invasive dental experiment.
As you well know, six labrador dogs – Venus, Milia, Mimosa, Luna, Lotus, and Zuri – are the innocent and unwilling participants in dental research at your university. The experiments are designed to study how effectively a new style of dental implant integrates with human tissue. Dogs are chosen as subjects because they have similar (!) saliva and oral bacteria to humans.
During their time serving your university’s researchers, one-third of the dogs’ teeth have been removed and dental implants have been inserted. By the time the experiment comes to an end, the dogs will have been put under anesthesia six times. The experiments are designed to study how effectively a new style of dental implant integrates with human (!) tissue. Dogs are chosen as subjects because they have (only) similar saliva and oral bacteria to humans.
Okay, six anesthesias are rather risky, but so far so relatively understandable. But this is the problem with medical reseach on animals all over the world: it can only INACCURATELY APPROXIMATE THE RESULTS FOR HUMANS.
Moreover, why aren’t these supposed scientists using the existing animal-free testing methods if they truly want results that prove useful to humans?
What has especially drawn the attention and anger of animal lovers all over the world is your researchers’ arrogant insistence that to “complete” their research, these innocent animals must die.
These innocent animals “must” die, in spite of the existence of the option of bringing in veterinary surgeons to obtain the bone, tissue, and blood samples your “researchers” need WITHOUT killing the dogs…
In spite of a petition which collected more than 80,000 Swedish signatures alone…
In spite of the fact that this dental research will not (and is not intended to) save anyone’s life …
In spite of the fact that these “researchers” have simply decided it’s easier and more expedient to just kill their lab subjects. To turn them into “lab waste” and to hell with ethics, common sense, humane treatment, and fairness.
No, your university is publicly stating that it agrees with your ethically challenged “researchers” and their intellectually lazy plan to take the E-Z way out. Your university thinks it is right and good to simply kill these helpless dogs, harvest their precious tissue samples and then off into the dumpster with them. You see no option of keeping the animals for further observation of these researchers’ oh-so-important implants, no option of adopting out these loyal canines, no, no, no ….
No, your university’s scientists insist that killing these dogs is an “essential part” of the research; the dogs’ bone, tissue, and blood needs to be tested.
Fine. But any veterinarian can explain to these dentists that such tissue samples are NOT impossible to obtain from a living animal. Veterinarians take such samples every day, so your university’s claim that its “researchers” have no choice in the matter makes zero sense….
(And no, the fact that killing these dogs is likely the cheapest option has no place in a moral/ethical argument.)
Moreover, in spite of repeated, polite requests, the University of Gothenburg has disrespectfully declined to meet with animal advocates to discuss the concerns that thousands upon thousands of people all over the world are angrily voicing about these experiments and your researchers’ inflexible and seemingly bloodthirsty stance.
Thousands of people have even posted protests on Gothenburg University’s Facebook page, while the British comedian Ricky Gervais and vegan actor Peter Egan have also spoken out, humbly begging the university to spare the six labradors whose lives are at stake.
It is high time for the University of Gothenburg to end this arrogant obstinance and do the right thing by protecting the lives of these innocent dogs and to start investing in animal-free testing methods instead!
Or do you want even more negative worldwide publicity for your educational institution?
Very sincerely yours,
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Please stop these barbaric experiments on these poor dogs
After completing your research, please allow these beautiful dogs to live in peace and harmony the remainder of their days. There is no test worth killing them and ending their lives. Do not be known as the barbaric university!!
STOP ABUSING ANIMALS
What if this was you? Your life? Would you want this done to you? No! You wouldn’t! We all live on this planet, and we all come in different forms, these sweet beings have a right to a peaceful existence, just as you have. Put yourself in there life, and ask yourself, would i want this done to me?
Dogs are man’s best friend and I think it is wrong to kill these animals after doing research on them . Please find another way to do this
What is crueler than senseless murder of Labrador Retriever? Killing six Labrador’s that’s what is crueler. I have had the pleasure of being the owner of four labs since 1971. They have all been intelligent, loyal and true companions.
What is crueler than senseless murder of Labrador Retriever? Killing six Labrador’s that’s what is crueler. I have had the pleasure of being the owner of four labs since 1971. They have all been intelligent, loyal and true companions.
Please be kind to animals! They are precious souls who mean so much to so many of us! End the use of animals in any experiment and use humans instead! Animals like humans have rights and the right to say no to any cruel abuse!
Please find another way besides torturing dogs.
Why always choose poor defencless animals for experiments? Experiment on humans!!! There are enough of them!!!!!
There are plenty of convicted criminals on death row , let them be your Guinea pigs ! After all you need human test cases what is the significance of dogs absolutely nothing, no comparison at all, and it is disgusting in this day and age whrpen we know that animal experimentation in unethical and does not give the results required, for the most part.
I just feel so angry about the amount of animal abuse that goes unpunished , criminals who commit heinous crimes without remorse …. we keep them in the prison system at the expense of the tax payer for life yet hey I could seriously recommend alternatives ….
Please save the labradors, help them to find forever homes
Please stop the torture and killing of innocent animals!
abuse to animals if any kind NEEDS TO STOP.
Please, have compassion towards living things and don’t cause harm ! These dogs deserve to live just just like everyone else !
Poor dogs! 🙁 It’s cruel and completely unnecessary! Stop it!
I hope you loose enrollment. I certainly won’t be sending my child to your university.
May I make a suggestion!!!! there are thousands of murderers in prison, please use them for these ghastly experiments. Those beautiful dogs are mans best friend. How can they do such awful experiments on them.????
Please STOP/BAN this animal abuse for the thugs who claims to be misleading the public pretending to be using them for Medical research purposes. These wasteful Tax payers money laundering while the so called researchers getting rich must come to an end. No animal curing medications be compatible to human medicines. PLEASE BAN THIS THUGGERY INDUSTRY. PLEASE PROTECT THE MILLIONS OF TAX PAYERS MONEY AS WELL AS THE INNOCENT ANIMALS LIVES.
Find another way to do this. These are living, breathing animals – pets, who depend on humans for their safety and wellbeing. Let them go.
They were not born to be your subjects, but their misfortune led them to be a part of your inhumane experience. Now, you owe them, at least their life and freedom. I hope that you will do right by these magnificent animals and let them live the rest of their life peacefully. We are watching you – the world is watching you! We urge you, expect you and demand that you do the right thing by freeing these wonderful animals. You owe them, at least that much.
shame on gothenburg university
Cruelty needs to STOP!
Dogs are the love of my life they make me happier than anything in this world. Obviously you’ve never let a dog love you. They have feelings and hearts of gold. They do not deserve to be tortured just to be loved and cared for. Hopefully what comes around goes around.
ABSOLUTELY NOT! If these procedures are such that euthanasia is necessary at the end and these procedures are not possible on a live animal, then they are by definition, not viable procedures. These experiments sound like they are being done just for the purpose of stating that they have been done, NOT for furthering any useful means to an end.
STOP the madness.
PLEASE STOP THIS BARBERIC DENTAL EXPEIRIMENTS ON THESE BEAUTIFUL INNOCENT DOGS. THESE ARE THE SMARTEST DOG THAT HELP HUMAN , VERETERANS, CHILDRENS, WHY WOULD YOU TAKE THAT AWAY FROM THEM TO GUIDE & HELP US WITH ALL KINDS OF HEALTH PROBLEMS FROM THE BLIND TO TO THE DISABLE PEOPLE THAT CANNOT DO FOR THEMSELVES, PLEASE INVEST IN ROBOTS TO DO EXPERIMENTAL TESTING NOT INNOCENT SMART , BEAUTIFUL DOS , THAT CAN HELP HUMANS. DO NOT DO THIS . PLEASE DO NOT PUT THEM THROUGH PAIN FOR YOUR EXPIERAMENTS
People.need.to.stop.being.crueil.to.they.animal.s.people.ilke.that.need.to.go.to.jail.for.lifer.for.kill.they.animal.
His is pathetic…i would like to know what dental implant company is behind this horrific research to make sure I. NEVER use their product…
These animals deserve to be treated with dignity not by being hurt and destroyed. Learn to practice on people not Animals who have no say in thing you practice on.
Gayle Butler has an excellent idea: Release the dogs and let the “researchers” (who are sadistic egomaniacs) run their tests on each other.
Let’s see how critical and necessity they think their experiments are then.
Gayle Butler has an excellent idea: Release the dogs and let the “researchers” (who are sadistic egomaniacs) run their tests on each other.
Let’s see how critical and necessity they think their experiments are then.
Just like most researchers/scientists, they lack empathy, compassion and morality. Let them practice on themselves and then put each other to sleep, I would not complain about that.
I hope & pray people power works to save these poor dogs and get them out of the hands of these cruel, heartless researchers. Let them experiment on each other, leave these poor dogs alone
Gothenburg University can’t find homes for SIX dogs? I don’t believe it – someone would take these doggies.
Scientific protocols have to change with the times. Animals should not even be used in research, and there’s no need to kill test study animals, of any species. It’s the 21st Century.
This is disturbing behavior from supposed educated people.
Done. Emails to them all.
I would gladly volunteer as a study subject to get experimental results that would no doubt be more accurate than using animals for these experiments. The Thalidomide trials of the 60’s showed how skewed these animal experiment results can be; Thalidomide caused no prenatal harm to developing fetal cats and dogs, but caused severe deformities in humans.
Please don’t kill these innocent babies
Humans are members of the animal kingdom. It is our arrogance that makes us believe that we are not animals, and that our cruel, sadistic, exploitative treatment of non-human animals is therefore acceptable. It is not.