PETA's Undercover Investigation

A recent undercover investigation conducted by PETA discovered the dark and hidden secret behind IAMS. Dogs gone crazy from intense confinement to barren steel cages and cement cells, dogs left piled on a filthy paint-chipped floor after having chunks of muscle hacked from their thighs; dogs surgically debarked; horribly sick dogs and cats languishing in their cages, neglected and left to suffer with no veterinary care. This is just a preview of what the animals endure inside IAMS laboratories.

PETA's Investigator Found the following in this undercover project:

• Iams dogs dumped on cold concrete flooring after having huge chunks of muscle cut out of their thighs; dogs and cats gone stir-crazy from confinement; dogs and cats in windowless, dungeon-like buildings

• coworker who instructed her to hit the dogs on the chest if they quit breathing; another coworker who talked about an Iams dog found dead in his cage, bleeding from his mouth

• a dog who limped in pain from Lyme disease cruel studies done by Iams involving sticking tubes down dogs’ throats to force them to ingest vegetable oil

• Iams dogs with such severe tartar buildup on their teeth that it was painful for them to eat vet technicians with inadequate training and experience performing invasive procedures coworkers who talked about a live kitten who was washed down a drain

• coworkers who talked about how they had to go home because the ammonia fumes in the animal trailers were so overpowering that it made their eyes burn (try being one of the animals in those cages!)

• cats kept in a cinderblock room with crude wooden “resting” boards that had nails sticking out of them; one of the boards fell on a cat, crushing her to death, while our investigator was there yet the lab director did not remove the boards when the cat was crushed—he removed them when he was told that the lab was going to be inspected because he knew they were illegal

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