Scott Busselman and his friends organized a demonstration outside a local PETsMART. They held signs and handed out leaflets telling shoppers about Iams’ cruelty. A news station interviewed the protesters, and countless customers agreed to boycott Iams.

Cassandra Thomas saved the receipts from the cruelty-free companion-animal foods that she purchased instead of Iams products and sent them to Iams to show the company how much money it had lost as a result of its cruel experiments.

Maya Chitty posted information about Iams on the message board at her local pet store. She also went to dog parks in her community and passed out PETA’s leaflets about Iams. Says Maya,“One lady hugged me and thanked me for letting her know how cruel Iams is.”

Hope Round showed PETA’s undercover video of animals in Iams’ contract laboratories to her friends and family.

During an undercover investigation into an Iams contract laboratory, PETA discovered that Iams kept cats and dogs, like Christmas—so named because his laboratory identification code ended in MAS”—in tiny stainless-steel cages and barren cement kennels inside windowless buildings where temperatures reached dangerous extremes. Christmas developed a serious ear infection and sores on his feet from living on concrete and slatted metal for six long years.

Another dog, referred to only as HJBMCN, had no resting board and was not removed from her cage during cleaning time, so she often had to sit or lie on wet concrete. Like so many other animals, HJBMCN was given no exercise, socialization, or psychological enrichment.

Many Iams dogs suffered cruel and painful muscle biopsies, and Iams even allowed its dogs to be surgically debarked to silence the their tormented cries.

Not all dog- and cat-food companies conduct animal tests in laboratories. Some only test food on dogs and cats kept in loving homes or who are in veterinary offices for conditions that might benefit from a new diet.

PETA is urging Iams to end its cruel and unnecessary animal testing immediately and rely on other available methods. And PETA and I are asking consumers to buy only from companies that don’t test on animals in laboratories, such as Evolution Diet, Inc., Harbingers of a New Age, Natural Life Pet Products, Inc., Petguard, Wow Bow, Halo Purely for Pets, and Wysong Professional Diets.

Your actions will make all the difference in the world. Together, we can put a stop to Iams’ awful animal tests.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you!

Sincerely,

Rue McClanahan

 
 
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