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Ross Vet School accused of cruelty to animals
By L.K. Hewlett
Editor- SKNVibes.com
 (BASSETERRE, St Kitts)- PEOPLE for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has taken issue with the teaching procedures conducted at the Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, accusing the school of performing “invasive and deadly teaching procedures on dogs, donkeys, and sheep”.
The world's largest animal rights organization group based in Virginia, USA, has written to the St. Kitts Attorney General (AG) Hon. Dennis Merchant asking his office to investigate the school’s curriculum for procedures which appear to violate St Kitts’ Protection of Animals Act (Cap 111 of the 1961 Revised Edition of the Laws of St Christopher and Nevis).
In a letter to the A.G., PETA claims to have received complaints and undercover photographs from students at the Vet School which depict “healthy dogs having their stomachs, intestines and urinary bladders needlessly cut open; sheep having tissue removed and suffering from infected wounds because skin flaps were improperly sutured; donkeys having the nerves in their toes severed, their ligaments cut, plastic tubes inserted through their noses to their stomachs, their abdomens punctured, their tracheas (windpipes) cut, and fluid removed from their joints”.
The correspondence goes on to say that the animals are then killed so that students can “practice amputating animals’ bones and drilling into their skulls”.
PETA claims that the officials at the Ross Vet School appeared to have ignored their previous appeals to cease the alleged practices and that suggestions at more humane procedures have also gone unheeded. The group then resorted to contacting the government’s legal head. ~~Adz:Right~~
“We have enclosed specific information about these procedures and their alternatives. Other veterinary schools train their students without resorting to multiple surgeries on animals and euthanizing healthy animals,” the letter stated, “We urge you to investigate this matter and pursue prosecution against Ross if the university refuses to discontinue its abusive and apparently illegal practices.”
SKNVibes.com attempted to contact the A.G. only to be informed that he is currently “off island” and that no comment could be given on the matter except by Merchant himself.
Ross Vet School, which is now owned by Chicago-based DeVry Inc., was also contacted by this media house but was told that anyone who could give a comment was indisposed at the time.
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