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The IAMS Company have funded and participated in laboratory experiments on hundreds of animals that caused kidney failure, obesity, malnutrition, liver damage, severe allergic reactions, stomach inflammation, diarrhoea, severe skin disorders, lesions, skin wounds and other painful illnesses, and animals have been kept in barren dungeon-like conditions.

Dogs have been force-fed vegetable oil, had chunks of muscle removed from their thighs, and been 'de-barked' by having their voice-boxes cut out in a painful and bloody procedure.

Click here for a list of other pet food companies who test on animals, including Hills Science Diet.
IAMS and Cruel Animal Experiments: Introduction

In August 2000, in a response to a supporter of Uncaged, IAMS stated that "no invasive testing on animals is carried out on the IAMS diets."

Uncaged first exposed IAMS/Eukanuba's painful, invasive and lethal experiments on cats, dogs and other animals in 2001 after trawling through articles published in scientific journals. In some of the most horrific research cats and dogs suffered and died due to surgically-induced kidney damage. Severe allergies were inflicted on husky puppies and cats were killed in invasive abdominal experiments. See further down this page for more information about IAMS practices. A front-page story in the Sunday Express revealed these experiments to an unsuspecting world.

IAMS then suddenly developed a 'Research Policy,' claiming that they would not harm or kill cats and dogs. We asked IAMS to provide proof that, after 25 years of vivisecting animals, they had genuinely implemented such a policy. Tellingly, IAMS refused to do this, or even answer our searching questions about their so-called 'research policy.'