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Please Meet the Faces Behind IAMS
Nov 28, 2007




Christmas
The last three letters of his lab identification are “mas,” thus his name. But his life is far from a celebration. An investigator discovered that his ears had been allowed to reach a level of such extreme filth that they required medication. She noticed the problem only by giving Christmas hands-on attention which he had never previously received. His feet have developed sores from years of living on cement and slatted metal.


Fifi
Fifi has been used in Iams studies for at least six years. She hides in the back of her cage constantly.


Maddog
MadDog is frustrated by his life in a 3-foot-by-3-foot cage. He often pushes his food bowl onto the floor to get attention but it hasn’t done any good. He has been caged for Iams metabolic studies for six years. His voice was taken from him surgically during an investigation.


Maisy
Maisy loves attention but rarely gets it. It’s even harder now that she’s been debarked and has no voice. Maisy has been caged since September 18, 1997.


Maxine
Maxine hides in the back of her steel cage and in the gutter of her cement kennel. Maxine has trouble eating when she is locked in the metabolic cage. She was surgically debarked along with 18 other Iams dogs during an investigation. Iams did nothing to stop Maxine or the others from losing their voices.


Mickey
Mickey has spent almost her entire life in Iams metabolic studies. She becomes extremely depressed when taken from her cement kennel to be put into the steel metabolic cage.


No Name
This Iams dog has no name—only a laboratory identification number. She lives in a dark building with no access to the outdoors or natural light, along with approximately 100 other dogs. Because she has no resting board and is not removed from the cage during cleaning time, she often is forced to sit or lie on wet concrete. She is lonely, sweet, and depressed.


Sally
Sally is extremely timid. She was born on April 10, 1996, and has spent the last six years trying to sleep and walk on cold wide-slatted floors. Many dogs injure themselves when their legs become stuck in between the slats.



Companies that are not on this list either responded to let us know that they do conduct laboratory experiments on animals or failed to respond to our numerous inquiries and are assumed to conduct laboratory experiments on animals.

If you are concerned about animals in laboratory tests, you should purchase companion-animal food exclusively from the following companies:

(Click here for the U.K. version of this list.)

Active Life Pet Products
1-877-291-2913
www.activelifepp.com

Amoré Pet Services, Inc.
1-866-572-6673
www.amorepetfoods.com

Animal Food Services
1-800-743-0322
www.animalfood.com

Artemis Pet Food
1-800-282-5876
www.artemiscompany.com

Azmira Holistic Animal Care
1-800-497-5665
www.azmira.com

Boston Baked Bonz, Inc. (entirely vegan)
781-752-4040
www.bostonbakedbonz.com

Bravo Raw Diet
1-866-922-9222
www.bravorawdiet.com

Burns Pet Health, Inc.
1-877-983-9651
www.burnspethealth.com

Canusa International
519-624-5697
www.canusaint.com

CountryPet Pet Food
1-800-454-7387
www.countrypet.com

Dr. Harvey’s
1-866-362-4123
www.drharveys.com

Dry Fork Milling Co.
1-800-346-1360

Dynamite Marketing, Inc.
208-887-9410
www.dynamitemarketing.com

Evanger’s Dog and Cat Food Co., Inc.
1-800-288-6796
www.evangersdogfood.com

Evolution Diet, Inc. (entirely vegan)
1-800-659-0104
www.petfoodshop.com

Good Dog Foods, Inc.
732-842-4555
www.gooddogfoods.com

GreenTripe.Com
831-726-3255
www.greentripe.com

Halo, Purely for Pets
1-800-426-4256
www.halopets.com

Happy Dog Food
1-800-359-9576
www.happydogfood.com

Harbingers of a New Age (entirely vegan)
406-295-4944
www.vegepet.com

Holistic Blend
1-800-954-1117
www.holisticblend.com

The Honest Kitchen
858-483-5995
www.thehonestkitchen.com

Know Better Dog Food
1-866-922-6463
www.knowbetterdogfood.com

KosherPets, Inc.
954-938-6270
www.kosherpets.com

Kumpi Pet Foods
303-699-8562
www.kumpi.com

Natural Balance Pet Foods, Inc. (has vegan options)
1-800-829-4493
www.naturalbalanceinc.com

Natural Life Pet Products, Inc. (has vegan options)
1-800-367-2391
www.nlpp.com

Nature’s Variety
1-888-519-7387
www.naturesvariety.com

Newman’s Own Organics
www.newmansownorganics.com

Onesta Organics, Inc. (entirely vegan)
619-295-1136
www.onestaorganics.com

PetGuard (has vegan options)
1-800-874-3221
904-264-8500
www.petguard.com

Pied Piper Pet & Wildlife
1-800-338-4610
www.piedpiperpet.com

PoshNosh Inc.
613-747-1542
1-866-893-4006 (Outside Ottawa-Outaouais)

Raw Advantage, Inc.
360-387-5158
www.rawadvantagepetfood.com

Sauder Feeds, Inc.
260-627-2196
www.sauderfeeds.com

Stella & Chewy’s LLC
718-522-9673
www.stellaandchewys.com

Timberwolf Organics, Inc.
407-877-8779
www.timberwolforganics.com

V-dogfood LLC (entirely vegan)
1-888-280-8364
www.V-dogfood.com

Veterinary Nutritional Formula
1-800-811-0530
www.vnfpetfood.com

Wow-Bow Distributors Ltd. (has vegan options)
1-800-326-0230
www.wow-bow.com

Wysong Professional Diets (has vegan options)
1-800-748-0188
www.wysong.net
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Posted: Wednesday November 28, 2007, 3:22 pm
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nasale M. (53) 		Wednesday November 28, 2007, 5:12 pm
Acknowledged! And good to know!

Past Member (0) 		Sunday December 2, 2007, 3:26 pm
So sad! I hate IAMS!

. (0) 		Friday February 8, 2008, 7:29 am
I can't see Veggiepets.com on this list, does that mean that it's not veggie/vegan??? it says it is, I've been to one of their talks at a vegan fest, it's what I buy.

Elizabeth Aldam (270) 		Tuesday April 1, 2008, 4:27 am
They are bloody ""$%/()=)=)!!!!They should have the experiments carried out on themselves,not on the poor animals!

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