Seventeen dogs rescued from a laboratory in North Carolina that was shut down last week for allegedly abusing animals will be flown to shelters in New York today. Cloud Nine Rescue Flights, a Montoursville, Pa.-based volunteer organization that transports rescued animals, said it will fly 17 of the more than 200 dogs removed from the Professional Laboratory Research Services Inc....
Seventeen dogs rescued from a laboratory in North Carolina that was shut down last week for allegedly abusing animals will be flown to shelters in New York today.
Cloud Nine Rescue Flights, a Montoursville, Pa.-based volunteer organization that transports rescued animals, said it will fly 17 of the more than 200 dogs removed from the Professional Laboratory Research Services Inc. facility in Corapeake, N.C., to New York.
Thirteen of the dogs will be flown to Montgomery in Orange County, where they will be turned over to the Pets Alive rescue group, Cloud Nine said. The other four dogs will be flown to the former Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome in Oneida County, where they will be given to the Verona-based Rescue Me Purebred K9 Rescue organization.
Sherry Slocum, acting director of the Rescue Me organization, said the group will shelter the four dogs in foster homes while it looks for people to adopt them. Anyone interested in adopting them can call Karen Trunfio at (315) 794-1474, Slocum said.
The laboratory shut its doors after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals revealed an undercover video showing what the group said was extreme animal abuse at the facility and filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
PETA said one of its investigators worked undercover for nine months inside the laboratory, a place it described as filthy, deafeningly loud kennels tucked away in rural North Carolina. It said the lab takes money from large pharmaceutical companies to test insecticides and other chemicals used in animal products.
It said lab workers yelled at cowering dogs and cats, used pressure hoses to spray them with water and harsh chemicals, and dragged dogs who were too frightened to walk. The group said many dogs had raw, oozing sores from being forced to live constantly on wet concrete.