Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-11
Animal Massacre

picture Of mass animal graves
in nearby Virginia must have
been shocking to all humane
minded people.
The Washington Humane
Society has never been anti
vivisection but has worked
increasingly for better care
and housing for animals in
medical laboratories and
schools - and locally with
considerable success.
We have also urged that
the laboratories raise their
own animals on nearby
farms, thereby acquiring
healthier specimens instead
of using former pets. Families
would then be spared the an
guish Of losing to science
animals which have strayed
or. as is too often the case,
been dog-napped.
Now that the public has
been acquainted with some of
the evils associated with ami
NAL research perhaps some
of the suffering. both animal
and human, may be elimi-
mated.
Dorothy E. Watson,
Vice President. Washington
Humane Society.
I have been seeing red"
ever since reading the article
in your paper concerning
hundreds of dogs and cats
which were found dead on a
farm near Gainesville, Va.
Must we sit idly by while
this never-ending experiment
tation and eventual slaughter
goes on year after year?
To someone who loves them,
the knowledge that this ex-
Fermentation not only exists
but actually has the backing
of the courts is intolerable!
My feelings against all of the
individuals engaged in this
revolving traffic are not
printable, so / shall have to
content myself with simply
saying that / trust their sad
little victims will remain for
ever engraved in their men,
DRY long after they have
served their purpose and been
so ANONYMOUSLY discarded.
I suggest to animal lovers,
animal shelters, and humane
societies that they take steps
to have pets spayed or neu-
tered so that, in time. the
dog and cat population will
be kept under control, and
there won't be so many born
into the world to suffer and
die at the hands Of their
tormentors.
M. E. McCallum.
$50
I read with approval In
your March 6 paper. and
other editorials of yours, the
plea for humane treatment
of animals who give their
lives for the testing and
safety of substances used for
human consumption. I also
read Of the terrible cruelty
inflicted on abandoned ami
mails left at the farm in
Gainesville, Va, that was sub
let to a corporation that COL
lected dogs and cats for med
ical use. Every decent humane
person should be aroused to
fight such conditions. Con-
gratulations for your part in
helping to stamp out such
cruelty. Clara II. Fawcett.
Your March 6 story on the
Animal Mass ere" In
Gainesville, Va, rang like a
death knell in the homes Of
thousands Of families VIII o
own pets. II struck with
agonizing pangs at those peo-
pie whose lost pets have never
been found. Anyone making
a living through suffering
and death is a danger TO So
ciety. The disregard today for
living things is appalling for
a country supposed TO be CIV
ilized. Kathleen Summa,
President, Noah's Ark AMI
NAL Society.
This kind OF traffic in
dogs and cats is no news to
some OF us, but TO others 1t
must come as a shock. II is
a crying shame that taxpay-
ers' money is used by Gov
eminent agencies TO finance
this kind OF utterly depraved
and vicious operation. And let
no one think this business
will cease. More will be col
lected and will either be al
lowed TO die under conc0ntra-
ton camp conditions or be
forwarded to some equally
squalid research torture
chamber.
Elsa M. DegerhOlm.
I commend The Star for