HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS USED IN RESEARCH 349 
I submit and respectfully ask that the following excerpts from this complaint 
be placed in the Congressional Record in evidence of the great and immediate 
need for legislation to protect the millions of laboratory animals sacrificed 
annually in the United States. 
VISIT, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1962 
I was escorted through the animal quarters by the chief pathologist of the 
hospital. The animal quarters are on the fourth and top floor of the oldest 
part of the building. 
We first visited the room where the long-term dogs are housed. The dogs 
were all in old metal mesh cages, none of which contained resting boards. 
Although the State inspector had recommended that paper sacks be put on the 
bottom of the mesh cages, none were in evidence. The dogs were forced to 
sleep on the mesh bottoms of their cages. Many of the dogs were much too 
large for the small cages and could not move about, and some of them had 
difficulty in standing erect. 
We then visited the room where the short-term dogs are housed. These dogs 
were also housed in metal mesh cages ; there were no resting boards or paper 
sacks on the floor of the cages. The cages were old and dirty. Fur hanging 
in dark billowy strands from the top of two of the cages resembled Spanish 
moss. There were deep cracks in the concrete floor in this room and the rafters 
were covered with sooty black webs. The door leading from this room to the 
roof outside had been carelessly repaired with pieces of plywood, but one large 
hole still remained in the door. 
One very sick dog had traces of recent surgery on his right side. I stopped and 
spoke to the dog and he made an effort to get up in response. As he did so, large 
quantities of a bloody puslike substance exuded from his nostrils and he coughed 
so hard he was not able to stand. I called the pathologist’s attention to the dog 
and asked if something could be done to help him. The pathologist did not know 
what had been done to the dog (there was no identification of any kind on the 
cage) and he called the caretaker. The caretaker informed us the dog had had 
three operations — all unrelated — the last one having been performed on Friday, 
July 14, 6 days prior to our visit. I then asked if the dog had received any post- 
operative care. The pathologist did not know what postoperative care the dog 
had received — nor did the caretaker. Nothing was done to help this pitiful ani- 
mal while I was there. A dirty dustpan, a rolled-up garden hose, and a pail were 
on top of this dog’s cage, and pieces of fur were stuck on the grimy metal mesh 
of his cage. 
VISIT, OCTOBER 19, 1961 
Mrs. Christine Stevens accompanied me on this second visit. We were escorted 
through the animal quarters by the director of the hospital and the pathologist 
who was present on my first visit. 
The room where the short-term dogs are housed contained about 15 dogs, 1 cat, 
and 12 or 15 rabbits excessively crowded in two upper-tier dog cages. The rabbits 
were so squeezed they could not even crouch quietly, but kept jostling. Rabbit- 
fur hung in billowy strands from the top of these cages. 
The majority of the cages had no identification although most of the cages 
contained animals. A few of the cages had paper sacks covering the bottom of 
the cage. 
Two of the dogs had had anastomosed intestines. The paper sack on their 
cage floor was sopping wet and dirty with moist and slimy excrement. One of 
these dogs was in a lower tier cage and he was dripping wet. These dogs were 
forced to sit, stand, and lie in this incredible filth. At Mrs. Stevens’ request the 
wet and filthy papers were removed from these two cages. The floor in this room 
was dripping wet, giving evidence that it had recently been hosed. Most of the 
cages were wet as were the dogs who occupied the lower cages, giving evidence 
that they must have been in their cages when the hosing was being done. 
Some of the food pans had been chewed almost to pieces — bits of tin were stick- 
ing up in all directions like lacework. We asked if the dishes were ever sterilized 
to avoid transfer of germs. We were told by the pathologist that the dishes are 
not sterilized because they do not have facilities for sterilization. 
Various items were lying about here and there on top of the cages, including a 
pail, a dirty dustpan, and a cruel-looking dog stick with many tooth marks in it. 
It was the first time I had ever seen a dog stick in a laboratory. The many 
tooth marks it contained gave silent evidence that it had received a lot of use. 
