For years, Libby was tortured for medical research at a lab in rural North Carolina called Professional Laboratory and Research Services, Inc. There, she had no name, just a number tattooed on her ear — 534120.
When the cruel lab was shut down following a PETA investigation, Libby was skeletal, and had rotting teeth, hookworms and tapeworms.
Today, life looks much different for Libby, which is short for “liberation” and also derived from the Hebrew name Libi, which translates to “my heart.”
Living with a kind woman named Jessica, Libby now has “good food, a soft bed, and lots of walks and playtime to fill her days,” says PETA.
Thank you to all who helped give Libby a second chance at life.
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God bless you and everyone involved in liberating all of these cats and dogs from their misery and God bless all who have given them love & the gift of a new life. There are no words that can adequately express my gratitude for your kindness, love and selflessness. Thank you on behalf of all the animals who are now freed from exploitation, experimentation, neglect & abuse. They will always remember feeling and being love for the first time!
Die Regierung soll MÖRDER KINDERSCHÄNDER UND TIERQUÄLEREI nehmen!!!!! Und die armen Tiere in Frieden leben lassen!!!!
Always wanted to know what happens with the people who work in the labs when they are shut down. Do they get to walk away from all the abuse and torture they cause. and move on to another lab Just because they have a initial after there name does that mean they can do it all over again or are they penalized in some way. Would really like to know.
So glad Libby has been rescued and that hellhole has been shut down. It just goes to show that whenever animals are treated as laboratory equipment, abuse and suffering follow.
If that is how animals are treated for so called medical research humans don’t deserve cures. We are a pathetic species that thinks just because we are human we are so special. We are an animal, a mammal. We strive to cull every other species on the planet for our stupid reasons but we try to save every damn human being instead of letting nature take its course with our lives. As for the human shit working and torturing these poor innocent animals I hope they all die a horrible death.
Was Libby the only animal in the facility that was shut down?
Good for her! Happy endings are few and far between the horror these days.
What a disgusting cruel world we live in thankfully this little dog was saved from further torture
I hope the people who worked and treated these animals so badly will get the karma coming their way and be prosecuted for the cruelty they inflicked glad this place of torture was closed.
Awesome story!
Thank you so much PETA and Jessica. I wish all the best for you and Libby!!!!!
So happy for Libby, let’s hope many more have a happy ending.
Thank god that hell hole has been closed down and Libby finally has the life she deserves, hoping karma pays a visit to the creatures who inflicted the torment on her and other poor animals!
THANK YOU, kind person named Jessica, for helping Libby to a better life. I continue to be overwhelmed at the treatment of our animal kingdom from “humans”. It saddens me greatly.
VIvisectors coined the words “medical research” to make the pubic believe they are engaged in something important. But they aren’t. I have come to understand this very well, and the mentality of the people who engage in it.
I believe it is VERY IMPORTANT to NOT use those words, as doing so is a verbal or written “confirmation” that these routine tortures are somehow beneficial. It furthers the idea, in the public realm, that it is a
“necessary evil.” I have also learned that nothing evil is ever necessary. The only sacrifice that is noble and worthwhile is SELF-sacrifice.
For those who are interested in how vivisection DOES NOT work, and NEVER HAS, I will provide some helpful links:
VIVISECTION OR SCIENCE: A CHOICE TO MAKE – Eftel
http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/online/research/croce1.html
Medical Doctors & Scientists AGAINST Vivisection
medicinekillsmillions.com/articles/doctors_oppose_animal_research.html
THE VIVISECTION (ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS) RACKET
whale.to/y/viv1.html
PRISM: People for Reason and Science in Medicine
http://www.peopleforreason.org
I absolutely agree about the terminology Sue. Call a spade a spade. Here is the quote I have written countless times “Of all the black crimes that man commits against God and Creation, vivisection [animal experimentation] is the blackest.” Mahatma Gandhi at the inauguration of the Medical Academy of New Delhi shortly before his death. Why can’t we listen?
I don,t understand how this can happen in an professional institution. But I SHOULDN,t be surprised after visiting humans in nursing homes. They are all neglected and abused. The older I get the more I,m disappointed and disgusted with mankind. I,m so glad this poor animal was finally helped. And I thank you for all you do. I wish you could get someone to check out all the nursing homes in this country. You,LL be amazed to see the similarities of how the animals and humans are treated. Cookie
I am no fan of PETA, as they are a particularly hypocritical and heinous organization. However, I am happy whenever in the very few instances they actually do some good and truly save some poor unfortunate animals
Dude you need to stop watching FauxLies. Everything on it is a lie. About absolutely everything!
What is so threatening about the concept of treating animals ethically? Unless of course, some EVIL white supremacist, gun fanatic, pretending to be an Army Ranger, can make a buck torturing animals for fun and profit.
As a real veteran, I’ll match the REAL WORLD TRUTHFUL record of PETA for ‘hypocritical and heinous’ acts over any branch of any military anytime! And they don’t need lies and spin and Bigottyanne Bullshitway alt-facts, to pretend that they are not in fact evil!
It is a crying shame what ‘researchers do to animals in the name science. They still do nicotine testing on animals. What? Yeah, right, they still get funding for that! And to test what no love, no affection from their mothers or siblings can do to infant monkeys is depraved to say the least. We are different species and what affects other sentient beings doesn’t do a thing for humans and the diseases we suffer from. Beagles (because they are a gentle and sweet dog are used a lot in research. I’m talking to you, University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin to name a few. The armed services use live goats and pigs and hurt them ( as if they had been at war) to serve trauma training. They actually rip a goat’s leg off( all without anesthesia and fix it up only for the animal to be killed anyway. There IS NO REASON to use live animals anymore. Computer models and new technology can be used to help research human diseases. Schools get funding for diseases to continue to kill and cause suffering. Join The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and find out more!
Thanks for the heads up, Carol Lynn.
Totally agree with you Carol when are these awful experiments going to stop?they are useless in the name of science leave these poor animals alone and punish these people called humans.
You are so right Carol. And what else is sickening, we the tax payers are often paying for this cruelty.
I hope the people who owned and or and worked at this research facility suffer the same treatment that they meted out to Libby and the other animals that were under their care. At the very least I hope that they have or will be prosecuted for their crimes. In any case I’m glad that they have been shut down and that Libby and hopefully the others have been a forever loving home.
Yes, I am with you that! I wish that all those responsible and all those who condone cruelty to animals receive the very same treatment that they have inflicted on their innocent victims. No mercy for animal abusers and no excuses!