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Let Animals Live ‘Out of the Labs’ - Paw Prints for Parliament Event

Let Animals Live ‘Out of the Labs’ - Paw Prints for Parliament Event

We were in Wellington CBD today letting Parliament know that Kiwis want animals to have a chance to live ‘Out of the Labs’.

April 7, 2017

Today our Paw Prints for Parliament event went ahead in Wellington with great success!

NZAVS and HUHA organised this event to send a clear message to the government - that New Zealanders want animals to get a chance to live ‘Out of the Labs’.

We created an installation in Civic Square made up of hundreds of messages from people all over New Zealand. These messages were written on paw prints, each one asking Parliament to acknowledge the organisations’ collaborative petition, 'Out of the Labs'.

'Out of the Labs' asks the government to introduce a mandatory rehoming policy for animals used or bred for science so that these animals can be rehabilitated and rehomed through registered animal rescues such as HUHA.

Currently, there is no incentive for researchers and breeding facilities to rehome animals after research is complete, resulting in the vast majority of animals being euthanised. Together, we will change this.

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Doris the beagle attended our event today. Doris was rescued from the Valley Animal Research testing facility where she was used as a breeder.

Why Expose Otago University?

Learn more about why we are exposing animal experiments that have taken place at the University of Otago.

Otago Exposed References

Access the references for the animal experiments we exposed during our special 12 Days of Christmas Otago exposé.

Day 1 - Otago Exposed

Baby rats were force fed alcohol in a cruel experiment at Otago Uni.

Day 2 - Otago Exposed

Rats brains were damaged and pierced with electrodes.

Day 3 - Otago Exposed

Living bees were sliced open and electrocuted.

Day 4 - Otago Exposed

Rats were subject to loud noises and electrocuted.

Day 5 - Otago Exposed

Guinea pigs were forced to swim in the notorious Morris water maze test.

Day 6 - Otago Exposed

Mother rats were given injections to try and hinder the brain development of their babies, who were then experimented on.

Day 7 - Otago Exposed

Young mice were forced to experience chronic stress for two weeks.

Day 8 -Otago Exposed

Rabbits had holes drilled into their jaws.

Day 9 - Otago Exposed

Guinea pigs had their heads drilled into and were given hypothermia.

Day 10 - Otago Exposed

Rats had their legs surgically damaged and were forced to walk on a rotating drum.

Day 11 - Otago Exposed

Sheep had around 30% of their blood drained from their bodies.

Day 12 - Update

What we have achieved together and our next steps!

With your help we can end animal experimentation in Aotearoa.

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