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This week’s scorching temperatures—expected to reach the upper 90s in New Orleans—will put dogs at high risk of enduring heat prostration and dying, so PETA is issuing an urgent warning to anyone with a dog. Please be sure to do the following:

• Touch the pavement before walks to ensure that it won’t burn dogs’ foot pads.
• Be alert to a long, curled-up tongue and heavy panting, as dogs cannot sweat as humans can and heat builds up inside their bodies.
• Walk only in the shade or on earth or grass, and never leave animals outdoors in extreme heat or inside vehicles.

In May, PETA fieldworkers discovered the body of a dog who had died after being left chained up in the hot sun, and similar reports nationwide are starting to roll in. Recently, a law-enforcement officer mistakenly left his patrol car with a dog inside it, and the K-9 succumbed to heat prostration and died. Already this year, 23 dogs have been reported dead from heat-related causes. (Figures are far likely higher, as most heat-related companion animal deaths go unreported.)

Anyone who leaves animals outside to suffer in severe weather may be prosecuted for cruelty.

For more information, visit PETA.org.

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In a win-win situation for patients and pigs, obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) medical residents at Aurora Sinai Medical Center will no longer practice surgical procedures on live animals, following discussions with PETA.

In response to a March survey from PETA and a Utah physician regarding animal use in OB/GYN residency programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in the U.S. and Canada, Aurora Sinai Medical Center confirmed that it has been using three live pigs annually for training 13 medical residents in an assortment of reproductive surgical procedures.

After approximately four months of discussions with PETA, the hospital announced its transition to human simulation–based OB/GYN residency training, writing to PETA, “We will no longer be utilizing live animals. Decision is in effect now.”

“Aurora Sinai Medical Center’s OB/GYN residents deserve the best medical education possible, and that means human-relevant simulation models,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA is ready to help medical centers across the country switch to modern, animal-free options that spare animals’ lives and allow trainees to practice invasive procedures until they’re confident and adept.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—notes that studies show that doctors who learn lifesaving surgical skills on human simulators are more proficient than those who use animals. In 2016, PETA donated an advanced virtual reality surgical system to Rush University Medical Center in Chicago to replace its use of live pigs in OB/GYN residency training.

For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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This week’s scorching temperatures—expected to reach the upper 90s in Terre Haute—will put dogs at high risk of enduring heat prostration and dying, so PETA is issuing an urgent warning to anyone with a dog. Please be sure to do the following:

• Touch the pavement before walks to ensure that it won’t burn dogs’ foot pads.
• Be alert to a long, curled-up tongue and heavy panting, as dogs cannot sweat as humans can and heat builds up inside their bodies.
• Walk only in the shade or on earth or grass, and never leave animals outdoors in extreme heat or inside vehicles.

In May, PETA fieldworkers discovered the body of a dog who had died after being left chained up in the hot sun, and similar reports nationwide are starting to roll in. Recently, a law-enforcement officer mistakenly left his patrol car with a dog inside it, and the K-9 succumbed to heat prostration and died. Already this year, 23 dogs have been reported dead from heat-related causes. (Figures are far likely higher, as most heat-related companion animal deaths go unreported.)

Anyone who leaves animals outside to suffer in severe weather may be prosecuted for cruelty.

For more information, visit PETA.org.  

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Below, please find a statement from PETA Foundation Director of Captive Animal Law Enforcement Rachel Mathews regarding the just-announced birth of an elephant calf at the Pittsburgh Zoo’s International Conservation Center, a facility with a history of missteps:

Federal records show that in 2017, the Pittsburgh Zoo was understaffed and unprepared for the birth of an elephant calf, who was taken away from her mother, was put on display, and died at just 3 months of age. PETA is calling on the zoo to learn from that tragedy and to allow this vulnerable new calf to be raised by her mother and given as natural an existence as possible. The zoo’s exploitative elephant-breeding program should be ended immediately.

Last year, PETA exposed a bid by the facility to have baby elephants captured in Zimbabwe. The facility would have paid for the capture of the animals, a process in which sharpshooters typically shoot the juvenile elephants with sedatives or tranquilizers from helicopters, which are then used to chase off their protective families. Conservationists and elephant specialists roundly condemn these traumatic operations.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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