We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition:

STOP IAMS PET FOOD CO. FROM CONTINUING INHUMAN & HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF THEIR ANIMALS

  • Signatures: 420
  • Goal: 35,000
  • Deadline: 10-11-2005

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Number Date Name State Country Extra comments on this matter
423 9:38 pm PDT, Apr 20 Jenny Vegan   United States Minor Outlying Islands Boycott P&G!
422 11:04 am PDT, Apr 10 Saurab Marjara   India  
421 11:33 am PDT, Apr 6 Laurel Watson Arizona United States  
420 7:36 pm PDT, Mar 31 Anonymous Idaho United States Iams/Eukanuba killed my springer spaniel. the vets recommended both, despite all the signs of food allergies. shame on the vets for feeding into iams' lies, and shame on iams for creating HORRIBLE food. my springer suffered her entire short-lived life due to their food: scabs, itching, chewing, ear infections, and eventually CANCER.
419 3:31 pm PDT, Mar 11 Shirley Cotrotsos New Jersey United States Sickening, I would never buy Iams.
418 6:14 pm PST, Feb 22 Cher Isbell Texas United States  
417 8:26 pm PST, Feb 16 Anton Oscar Iorga   Canada  
416 3:56 pm PST, Feb 15 Tatiana Costa   Brazil  
415 10:33 am PST, Feb 12 Carissa Chapman Pennsylvania United States My dog will never have to taste the putrid flavor of death called Iams
413 10:21 pm PST, Jan 22 Glen Venezio Puerto Rico United States  
412 10:51 pm PST, Jan 11 Gail Watts   Canada  
411 10:38 pm PST, Jan 11 VICTORIA MARY STONG / ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST New York United States IAMS NEEDS TO BE BOYCOTTED UNTIL THEY COMPLY WITH LAWS PROTECTING ANIMALS!
410 12:22 pm PST, Jan 6 Karl Clifford   Canada In pursuit of money. All is waived. If your not caught, all is good. The North American way.
409 2:29 pm PST, Dec 10 Leigh Barrett Illinois United States I will not purchase your product until I know these tests have ended. I will also spread the word to other pet owners that they should do the same. Please make this a very short habit! There is no need for this kind of testing.
408 11:28 pm PST, Dec 8 Glen Venezio Puerto Rico United States  
407 9:16 am PST, Dec 7 Amanda Young Tennessee United States To know that Iams puts animals through that sort of torture and hell just for the sake of finding out that obese cats can develop that disease by not eating is just terrible (duh, you don't eat and all sorts of things can happen, but do we really want to find out on purpose???). I feel for these animals, as well as all the others that are tested without mercy for the sake of mankind. Animals are not put on this earth for human pleasure or labor or worse. They are presents from God and should be treated as such.
406 2:52 pm PST, Dec 1 Joyce Lee Washington United States This is simply inhumane. I cannot imagine the cruelties alone in one day. This has to be stopped. We need a change.
405 7:05 am PST, Nov 29 Susan Catanio-Agins California United States I'll never buy their product again.
404 8:04 am PST, Nov 13 REGINA WIRTH   Germany  
403 10:55 am PDT, Oct 25 Z Tam Michigan United States This is unacceptable from a pet company. The co. should be persecuted on various counts of animal cruelty.
402 3:58 pm PDT, Oct 16 Anonymous Oregon United States Never would purchase Iams dog food
401 5:46 pm PDT, Oct 10 jennifer jackson   Australia this is discusting and it must be stoped and for my assignment i will make sure that it is known of this horrible yert unforturnate behavour towards animals
399 9:38 am PDT, Sep 19 Deborah LeFort Pennsylvania United States  
398 1:34 am PDT, Sep 5 Abudicioai Raluca   Romania  
397 3:57 pm PDT, Aug 13 Emily Alvarez Arizona United States  
396 9:23 am PDT, Jul 30 Doris J Shaw California United States I had two beloved cats to die from eating IAMS..one age 13, one age 14. I am devastated
395 12:53 pm PDT, Jun 27 Christi Bernier   Canada  
394 6:12 pm PDT, Jun 26 Lesley Bayne   Korea, Democratic People's Republic Of  
393 2:31 pm PDT, May 19 Anonymous Ohio United States I am disgusted with the way Iams treats their animals and will no longer purchase their dog food. I will also encourage others not to buy Iams products.
392 5:38 am PDT, May 17 Sheila Reynolds Texas United States  
391 12:41 pm PDT, May 16 Connie Distasio New Hampshire United States I was using IAMS products - but NEVER again!
390 3:15 pm PDT, May 15 Pat Poe Texas United States  
389 2:46 pm PDT, May 14 Brigid Herold New York United States I will not buy P&G products and especially not IAMS. In this day and age this is appalling!
388 6:23 pm PDT, May 12 Cynthia Kerfoot Pennsylvania United States  
387 1:18 pm PDT, May 9 Linda Low   Canada I am appalled at what I have read regarding Iams, and Proctor and Gamble. As an owner of a new puppy and two adult cats, I for one will never buy any pet food, or other products manufactured by this company. It's outrageous that they can get away with this.
386 5:43 pm PDT, Apr 29 Kimberly Comer Texas United States  
385 10:33 am PDT, Apr 29 Anonymous California United States this is absolutley obserd. i am appauled!
384 8:05 pm PDT, Apr 25 Lauren Grayheck Illinois United States  
383 8:00 pm PDT, Apr 23 A. Lepinsky New Jersey United States  
382 2:21 pm PDT, Apr 23 Donna West Nevada United States  
381 11:33 pm PDT, Apr 22 Linda Falzone New Hampshire United States  
380 8:13 pm PDT, Apr 17 Kimberly Klewin Texas United States  
379 5:59 pm PDT, Apr 11 Ariel Chrisman Texas United States  
378 1:10 pm PDT, Apr 11 jerry t Texas United States http://www.Eukanubasucks.com/
377 3:36 pm PDT, Apr 9 Joseline Gomez California United States  
376 6:50 am PDT, Apr 8 Linda Turcato California United States It's all about the money
375 8:50 am PDT, Apr 7 Lily Condic   Canada  
374 2:00 pm PDT, Apr 6 Callie Chambers Kentucky United States  
373 8:52 am PDT, Apr 5 Mona Adams Alabama United States I will support no one and no company that causes animal pain and strife.
372 7:17 am PDT, Apr 5 Leah Shore   Canada As a person who cares about animals, I am appalled at the suffering inflicted upon cats, dogs, and other animals in laboratories that are run or funded by Iams and Eukanuba. I am sending you this message because I am disgusted by the fact that these tests are not only cruel, but are also not required by any law. I am boycotting your products and urging everyone I know to do the same until Iams ends all laboratory animal tests and switches to non-animal laboratory analysis and in-home studies using dogs and cats who have been volunteered by their human companions.
371 1:44 pm PDT, Apr 4 Anonymous Colorado United States I have had three cocker spaniels and always fed them Iams. Two of the spaniels have died from cancer and my third has just been diagnosed with cancer. Now I know why. I will never buy Iams again.
370 7:20 pm PDT, Mar 29 Scott Bonacci Colorado United States I had a very healthy english pointer who I have feed iams from day one. Six months ago we found a tumor on his kidney. I find it hard to believe that I spent the extra money to buy the best dog food on the market to now relieve that it is going too kill him.
369 6:59 pm PDT, Mar 27 jennifer engel Georgia United States  
368 7:31 am PDT, Mar 27 shiver me timbers California United States i bought iams for my dogs and cats but there fine my friend bought iams and there dog got sick but he's fine now they gave him blood test and they found out his problem i will never buy iams agian they say they keep your animals healthy for many years to come but iguess thats not the case.............
367 7:38 am PDT, Mar 26 Anonymous Georgia United States  
366 1:38 pm PDT, Mar 25 carly marcotte   Canada Iams is HORRIBLE!!!
365 10:23 am PDT, Mar 25 Beth Strickhouser Pennsylvania United States  
364 8:49 pm PDT, Mar 24 Tiffany Watts Wisconsin United States  
363 6:57 am PDT, Mar 24 k holmes Florida United States  
362 12:39 pm PDT, Mar 23 DR Lawrence Dearman Alaska United States  
361 2:29 pm PDT, Mar 21 john l wells Texas United States ANYONE WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING IN COMMERCIAL DOG FOOD?? Check this website out: www.boycottiams.com
360 7:06 am PDT, Mar 21 Anonymous Wisconsin United States  
359 5:10 am PDT, Mar 21 R. Carson   Canada Big coorperations will make money at any expence. It is s safe bet that all the share holders of the coorperation don't know and don't care how they get their money as long as they do. It makes no differance be it animal food or human food.
358 7:04 pm PDT, Mar 20 R &A Lee.   Canada TOTALLY DISGUSTING. WILL NO LONGER BUY IAMS or any other product made or sold by proctor& gamble Co.
357 3:50 pm PDT, Mar 20 Rebecca Smith Connecticut United States I am only twelve years old . It concerns me greatly that i once used this food on my cats and dogs. I tell people at school not to buy it anymore but they say it is the cheapest brand they can find.
356 12:32 pm PDT, Mar 20 Susan Blissett   Canada  
355 10:02 am PDT, Mar 20 Therrie Williams Illinois United States  
354 7:03 am PDT, Mar 20 Anonymous Illinois United States  
353 6:46 am PDT, Mar 20 Sharyn Lienemann New York United States  
352 10:33 pm PDT, Mar 19 Ken Salazar Illinois United States  
351 5:59 pm PDT, Mar 19 Dianna Mercuri New Jersey United States Stop Thisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

STOP IAMS PET FOOD CO. FROM CONTINUING INHUMAN & HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF THEIR ANIMALS

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING TEXT IN PARENTHESES IS COPYRIGHT TO PETA.ORG

"For nearly 10 months in 2002 and early 2003, a PETA investigator went undercover at an Iams contract testing laboratory and discovered a dark and sordid secret beneath the wholesome image of the dog- and cat-food manufacturer: 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.

Iams lied to PETA with promises to improve the conditions for animals in its contract laboratories, even assuring us that enrichment programs were already in place, but our undercover investigator saw otherwise. She fought for six months to have a single cheap, rubber toy placed in each cold, lonely kennel. This is Iams’ idea of enrichment.

Our video footage shows Iams representatives touring the facility and witnessing dogs’ endless circling in barren cells, sweltering in the summer heat. Iams knew the truth yet did nothing to protect the animals.

The dogs and cats in Iams’ tests are no different from our dogs and cats at home when it comes to deserving companionship, play, a stimulating environment, and the right not to be tormented in painful experiments.

Luckily, caring consumers know that advances in nutrition don’t have to come at the expense of animals in labs. Help PETA force Iams to end these painful and unnecessary tests, as many compassionate companies have already done.

The Investigation
Our investigator videotaped Iams representatives touring the facility. They saw the sad, distressed dogs. They felt the sweltering heat and humidity in the kennels. Then they walked out. But the animals couldn’t.

An Iams veterinarian inspecting a group of dogs purchased from a USDA Class B dealer did nothing when he saw that a mother dog who had just given birth in a cement kennel had been provided with no bedding to rest on. A puppy and an adult dog from that group died during our investigation, most likely the result of neglect and temperatures that fell below 34 degrees in the building.

An Iams “behaviorist” saw dogs spinning in their cages out of madness and yet said nothing. An Iams cat dental researcher even overheard two employees talking about animals who were treated inhumanely at the facility yet Iams continued to conduct business there as usual.

Despite assurances in the Iams research policy that no animal would ever be killed, our investigator documented the destruction of 27 out of 60 dogs who underwent an invasive procedure that involved having huge chunks of muscle cut out of their legs. Two more of those dogs were found dead in their cages after the surgery; one had been suffering for 11 days prior to her death.

When our investigator reported that Humbug, an Iams dog, was limping, she was told by a vet tech that the laboratory had an x-ray machine that dated back to the 1960s but no film for it and that the director of the laboratory preferred to kill, rather than treat, animals with broken bones. In addition, Fifi and the other dogs used in Iams’ metabolic studies were bled by the laboratory in order to sell their blood to other companies even though the studies do not call for blood draws.

Finally, shortly before our investigator left, the lab director told the vet techs to debark all the Iams dogs as he was being disturbed by their desperate cries for attention. Our investigator e-mailed Iams researchers in Dayton with this information, hoping that Iams would intervene. But all she got was the sickening sight of a lab technician covered in blood after a day of performing the debarking surgery.

When our investigator resigned, she told the Iams representative and the lab director that she was leaving because despite her best efforts, nothing was being done to enhance the desperately boring, lonely, harsh lives of the animals. The Iams representative admitted that both he and the lab director were from the “old school.”
What Our Investigator Found: Iams’ Den of Horrors
•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

•a 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"


For more information go to: http://www.iamscruelty.com

For ways you could help go to: http://www.iamscruelty.com/wycd.asp

For a list of pet foods/products that DO NOT test on animals and are cruelty-free go to: http://www.iamscruelty.com/res.asp

Thank you

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