Cold, damp, and empty. This is what my heart feels like. Pain is a daily feeling for me, emotional and physical. Maybe im going insane, maybe thats a good thing. This place I am forced to live in, is every animals worst nightmare. Our cages are dirty from our own waste, blood and fallen fur, our food is tasteless and grinds against our throats when we swallow, and the water has a rusty, old taste. Being a former house cat, my owners gave me fresh canned food daily, and crystal clear water that tasted like it had come straight from the heavens. My old life is nothing compared to the life I live now. I'm not known as Hunter the house cat anymore, I am now known as Test Subject #14. I'm being used for experiments, I'm a victim of animal testing and there's nothing I can do but endure it. I don't know why I was brought here, or why my owners gave me away to be like this. I wish I knew why they stuck needles in me, and I wish I knew why they found it as a good sign when my body whethered in pain, and most of all I want to know why they burned my eyes with acid, now I can't see. What about the sun? I wanted to see the sun againl. I want to feel grass under my paws again, and I want to cuddle up on my owners lap by the fire on cold winter nights. I miss my soft, feathery bed by the window, and my tall scratching post. But I have non of that here now. In my cage I have enough room to turn around, only because every bone in my body is showing. They wouldn't be able to fit my cat bed in here, so I sleep on the cold steel floor every night, my muscles ache from every sleep. I have given up wishing that they would let me go home, for these days would haunt my dreams every night, like murder while I slept. Instead I wish for them to let me die, to let me shrivel up in my sleep like a dying plant. But this dream won't come true until they have ripped my very heart from me. They have taken my dignity, they have taken my sight, and they have taken my name. If there was one thing I could have returned to me in this pitiful life, it would be my freedom. Because now nothing else matters. I am alone, cold, and afraid with no one here to guide me. My name is Hunter, and this is my life.
Please everyone help stop animal testing by buying products from companies that don't do animal testing. This is what thousands of animals are going through EVERY DAY and we need to unite and put an end to it!