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Dr. Robert Gibbens
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Please levy the MAXIMUM FINE against Washington State University for their blatant disregard of the Animal Welfare Act revealed in recent information where their negligence killed a dog, six bighorn sheep, denied pain relief to bears, denied water to calves, and caused broken legs in rabbits. Previous information revealed that WSU negligence killed bears and sheep. Their negligence MUST NOT be tolerated and MUST be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
WSU will conduct reviews of its animal laboratories
By Josh Babcock,
Moscow-Pullman Daily News, July 22, 2016
Washington State University will conduct reviews of its laboratories
following three complaints by an animal rights group and an internal
investigation by the school into its bear research center.
Phyllis Erdman, chair of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, made
the announcement Thursday. The committee oversees animal care in research at
the university.
The group Stop Animal Exploitation Now contends the university negligently
failed to provide veterinary care to a dog that died, and failed to provide
adequate pain relief during biopsies on grizzlies at the Bear Research,
Education and Conservation Center.
The Moscow-Pullman Daily News reports that other issues raised in the SAEN
complaint involved the deaths of several bighorn sheep, rabbits that
suffered broken legs and calves that were denied adequate water during
research.
Erdman said during the next five to seven years all of the university's labs
would be inspected to ensure WSU is providing the resources they need to
operate legally.
Those reviews are in addition to inspections the university already receives
annually from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Mike Kluzik, WSU director of the Office of Research Assurances, wondered who
would have to pay fines - potentially $10,000 per animal - if SAEN wins its
complaint against the university.
In June, the animal rights group filed a complaint against WSU, asking the
federal government to fine the school over the deaths of two grizzly bears
and the overdosing of several bighorn sheep.
Stop Animal Exploitation Now asked the Animal Plant Health Inspection
Service, an arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to fine the
university $10,000 for each infraction cited in an April 26 inspection
report by the service.
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