Animal Partisan的动态

This week, we filed a request with the Montgomery County (VA) Commonwealth’s Attorney seeking criminal charges against a former researcher at?Virginia Tech. The complaint stems from the neglect of two fruit bats shipped to Virginia Tech from Colorado for use in research. Despite acknowledging that the bats appeared “weak and lethargic” after the grueling transport, the researcher failed to summon emergency veterinary care as required by both law and Virginia Tech protocol. The bats suffered for 12 hours until they died. Virginia Tech has a deplorable history of animal welfare in its research program, including agreeing to pay nearly $19,000 to the USDA in 2024 because of repeated animal welfare issues. These issues included failure to provide proper veterinary care for pigs involved in traumatic brain injury experiments, the prolonged starvation of a 6-day old piglet, and the strangulation of a gerbil while attempting to restrain the animal during a botched blood draw. Despite this history of animal welfare issues, Virginia Tech has openly resisted legislative efforts to improve transparency in animal research. Our complaint seeks two counts of animal cruelty against the former researcher.