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Dear Montcalm County Officials,

Please do not send companion animals to research laboratories. I implore you to cancel the county contract with R&R Research, Inc. and never again engage a Class B dealer to dispose of homeless animals.

Behind a lab’s closed doors, trusting animals undergo invasive surgeries, toxic dosing, food/water deprivation, and prolonged pain. Still, your taxpayers subsidize pound seizure whether they like it or not. They indirectly fund animal tests that delay medical progress with misleading results.

It is particularly irresponsible to support animal research when strides in in-vitro technology, computer automation, and more animal-free methods now uncover data relevant to human health and safety.

Clearly, there is no altruism in dealing cats and dogs for research. There is only profit. In 2006, USDA records reveal R&R Research of Howard City, Michigan grossed $196,723 from the sale of 621 dogs and cats. Moreover, R&R flaunts an unethical history. A 2006 USDA citation shows R&R illegally transported dogs chained to a livestock trailer. In 2005, the company was cited for procuring dogs and cats from Howard City, where there is no pound. Apparently officials sold their strays to R&R.

Before that, the Michigan Attorney General ordered R&R to pull its "animal shelter" listing in the yellow pages. In the 1990s, a WOOD TV investigative video portrayed R&R owners gassing animals in a corroded CO2 barrel.

At the very least, Montcalm officials ought to be embarrassed by their relationship with a Class B dealer. I strongly encourage you to terminate your contract with R&R and permanently stop pound seizure, a shady practice abandoned by most counties nationwide.

This issue has generated worldwide publicity via the Internet. I look forward to your feedback.

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*****THIS ALERT IS NO LONGER ACTIVE***** DO NOT SEND THIS ALERT! STREET ADDRESS FOR ALL COMMISSIONERS Montcalm County Commissioners Administrative Building, 3rd Floor 211 W. Main St. P.O. Box 368 Stanton, MI 48888 Commissioner Marcia Walker, home: 616-754-8236, email: lloydwalker@chartermi.net Commissioner Tom Lindeman, home: 616-754-4918, email: tblindeman@sbcglobal.net Commissioner Ron Retzloff, home: 989-235-6827, email: comish@casair.net Commissioner John Johansen, home: 616-754-5375, email: johm@pathwaynet.com Commissioner Carl Paepke, home: 616-636-5692, email: johm@pathwaynet.com Commissioner Ron Baker, home: 231-937-5465, email: rbaker68amx@hotmail.com Commissioner Pat Carr, home: 989-352-8129, NO EMAIL Commissioner Roger Caris, home: 989-268-5875, email: rcaris@gccmha.org Commissioner John McCrackin, home: 989-584-3713, NO EMAIL

City of Stanton, Mayor Robert Burns 225 S. Camburn St. P.O. Box 449 Stanton, MI 48888 ph: 989 831-4440, fax: 989-831-5756 email: mayor@cityofstantonmi.com Montcalm County Animal Control 154 W. Quarterline St. P.O. Box 368 Stanton, MI 48888 ph: 989-831-7355; fax: 989-831-7410 SOURCE: www.montcalm.org/animalshelter.asp

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