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The vivisector:
Robert L. Johnson, Jr.
University of Texas Southwest Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, Texas 75235
(214) 648-3426

See what local veterinarian Dr. Hamlin has to say about the experiments.

ACT made The Observer! Check out the article on Dr. Johnson's foxhound experiments.

Physicians Committe for Responsible Medicine also wrote us about these experiments.

 

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The victims:
Foxhounds used in limitation to exercise after 68% of their lungs are removed experiment and high altitude test. Details: Dr. Robert L. Johnson, Jr., a vivisector at the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, has been performing cruel and redundant experiments using foxhounds for the past 11 years! He has approval and the grant funds (your taxpayer dollars!) secured to continue these experiments for another year. When that is up he will more than likely reapply, get another approval and start the same tests all over again! What exactly are the experiments? Dr. Johnson takes healthy foxhounds, which are similar to beagles and are known for their endurance, and performs pneumonectomies on them (pneumonectomy is all or partial removal of an organ - in this case the lung). He then removes 68% of their lung on either or both sides, he sews them back up and forces them to exercise. He then ?recycles? the dogs into yet another experiment which is a high altitude test. The removal of the lung is meant to simulate lung disease. The title of these experiments is Limitations to Exercise After Pneumonectomy. After Dr. Johnson has finished with the dogs they are killed so their lungs can be dissected.

What you can do:
Please help us stop this scientific fraud and stop the senseless torture and death of these foxhounds. Dr. Robert Johnson states in his grant request that he will merely be confirming what he already knows from his previous 11 years of tests.

Please write or call Dr. Robert L. Johnson Jr. at his work address or work phone number listed above, demand that he stop these tests and not reapply for future grants for these redundant and cruel experiments.

Volunteer to help the Dr. Johnson committee! Call the ACT Info-line at 214-373-7867 to volunteer for planned demonstrations against these horrendous experiments.

 


In the Dark
by Susan Oakey

Somewhere, in a cage, in a lab, in the dark,
Are some puppies and dogs - but you won't hear them bark?
Won't know when they suffer incredible pain?
Comprehend that they're tortured for financial gain.
And, saddest of all (though you won't hear them cry),
These tests are a fraud.
So they die
For a lie.


Argument against:
Not only are these experiments redundant and cruel they are a gross waste of our taxpayer dollars. Our money should and could be spent on testing that can be used to help humans! Southwest Medical Center is not a veterinary clinic, however Dr. Johnson seems to think it is. On Dec. 1, 1997, when one of our activists talked with Dr. Johnson he justified his use of animals in testing by stating that both animals and humans would benefit by the tests. He also stated that he does use humans in the tests as well! If this is the case, we urge him to choose this more accurate form of testing and STOP his unethical use of dogs in tests.

By his own admission, this is a choice. The ethical alternative would be clinical studies of humans who already have lung disease, and or partial lung removal, subject them to exercise on a treadmill, then observe clinically their lung growth.