UPM Cruelty to Animals

[hatemetoday]

The dead dog was in a posture that showed that it was trying to crawl out with all its entrails hanging out, eyes popped out - frozen - of course.

..adui speechless aku...

[melmel]

ATTENTION :

Re : Dogs / Cats Adoption Drive
Date : 28 (Sat) & 29 (Sun) Mar
Venue : Lobby, NZX Mall , Ara Damansara
Organised by : M'sian Dogs Deserve Better

Some of d animals r vaccinated or neutered.

U can lend a hand by :

a) adopt an animal
b) b a volunteer on tat day
c) pass d word around

4 directions / further details, pls contact 019-3576477

[melmel]

DVS Deputy D-G Being Questioned by Star on UPM-DBKL Pound Dog Research :
http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.as...18&sec=central


Star Saturday March 14, 2009
Pound animals used for research
By CHARLES FERNANDEZ

IT IS a general practice for students of Veterinary Sciences to use animals like dogs and cats for research but only after they are humanely put to sleep, Department of Veterinary Services (DVS) deputy direcor-general (development) Dr Ibrahim Che Embong said.

He was responding to a complaint by a reader that students at the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences of the University Putra Malaysia (UPM) are using live animals supplied by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) for experiments.

However, he said the department had no knowledge of any long-standing arrangement by UPM with the DBKL to supply dogs from their pounds for research.

“We do not have any information on this nor is the faculty required to inform us of such arrangements to use pound animals for their training,’’ said Ibrahim.

He said although DVS opposed the use of abandoned animals from pounds and shelters, he was sure that the UPM had their own reasons to use pound dogs supplied by DBKL as claimed.

He added that when he was a student, he never came across healthy animals being used for research although sometimes mongrels (mangy looking and diseased) that were put to sleep were used for experiments and lab tests.

“Sometimes dead animals are brought in for anatomy and pathology studies for the veterinary students to have hands-on practice.

“The animals are then either buried or incinerated,’’ he added.

Ibrahim said abandoned animals in pounds and shelters already suffering from fear and distress of losing their carers.

He added that if there were objections from the public that their use in research should not be condoned, then such practices should be re-evaluated.

[melmel]

The Star Online > Central
Thursday April 9, 2009

Stray dogs shipped off to an island

RESIDENTS of Pulau Ketam turned dogcatchers recently, to help curb the stray dog population on their island.

The residents, mostly fishermen, had built contraptions to trap the dogs that were then sent to a nearby-uninhabited island.

According to village head Cha Keng Lee, the residents had written to the Klang Municipal Council (MPK) alerting them about the large number of strays on the island.

Helpless: Some of the trapped dogs awaiting to be transported to Pulau Tengah.

“The MPK councillor in charge of Pulau Ketam used the money allocated to his service centre on the island to fund the dog- catching project,’’ said Cha adding that residents were paid RM10 for a big dog, RM8 for a medium-sized dog and RM5 for a small dog that they managed to trap.

Cha claimed the money was used to build the traps as well as transport the dogs to the uninhabited island known as Pulau Tengah.

He added about 400 out of the estimated 2,000 stray dogs in Pulau Ketam were trapped and sent to the island last month alone.

When asked if they would be able to survive on the island, Cha said there were a lot of food source on the island such as fish, crabs, lizards, snakes and wild boar.

He said the dogs were sent to the island to prevent them from being destroyed by the MPK.

When contacted MPK councillor in charge of Pulau Ketam Tee Beng Lee said residents had in the past caught and sent dogs to another island, which was nearer to the main island than Pulau Tengah.

“But the dogs kept swimming back and that is why they are being sent to an island which is quite a distance from Pulau Ketam,’’ he said.

[Joni]

I am thoroughly disgusted with such acts from UPM! I hope the whole world would know how low-standard are these people!!!

[melmel]

heard tat besides of getting dogs fr DBKL dog pound, UPM oso gets dogs fr MPSJ dog pound located in Puchong

[Ezer]

Sad story...

DIMB.. nice poster!! as usual...

[melmel]

University Hospital, PJ set up a unit so called "Animal House", Tis unit gets healthy dogs supply from MBPJ 2 udrgo all kind of cruel experiments for one mth period for each dog. can u imagine how much d dog has 2 suffer ! d experimentation is still on

[melmel]

recently an animal NGO wrote in 2 UPM 2 show its concern in regards 2 UPM Faculty of Vet Medicine post-grad students operate DBKL pound dogs alive 2 study d organ & never stitch back properly & d cancer experimentation on d dogs.

Tis NGO asked whether UPM vet faculty has a`Animal Ethics Commitee' that strictly looks at all animal handling procedures in research carried by their post-grad students. After 2 wks, UPM replied with a letter by giving all kind of baseless excuses 2 rebut d allegation.

On d other hand, tey posted on some animal-related website eg petwonder, hompet, confessed on d above-captioned matters.