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Apr 22, 2022Liked by Wayne Hsiung

What a powerful message! You are what we needed in this world to change people’s minds! Thank you ❤️

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Apr 21, 2022Liked by Wayne Hsiung

no animals in laboratories no more no more torture and laboratories the public has enough We're outrageous We have to put the pressure on our government to stop the torture laboratories f By the way we're paying for it This must stop and it must stop now right now Together we can do it We are their voice Let's do it This year we could do it Let's do it now

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Apr 21, 2022Liked by Wayne Hsiung

Thank you, Wayne and all at DxE.

It’s same way with rats. Bred to be docile so they can be endlessly abused in labs - or pet store chains where some are called “feeders”- in spite of being as sweet and loving and eager to bond with safe companions as anyone else. They’ll be timid, terrified, traumatized, but they won’t be aggressive. In the past few years I’ve adopted and rescued rats - not directly from labs, but indirectly and from cruel, neglectful, and dangerous housing situations. One of the most heartbreaking things about domesticated rats is, once they know they are safe, they absolutely love kind people. For all of the play-fighting and snatching each other’s treats, they adore their families. And they will bond with the humans who truly love and care for them, just like family. They are so intensely social and socially intelligent they will seek you out when you’re struggling and comfort you. They’re cleaner (and smell nicer) than cats and will return the gentle affection you show them by snuggling against you and grooming you. In leaving a stable job and moving five hundred miles to help care for an ailing parent who passed away not long before Covid isolation and lockdowns began, these rats - painfully short-lived, widely-reviled simply for being and almost universally dismissed or misunderstood - were my source of continuity and solace. They would not let me be or feel alone or lonely. Every minute I spend with them I am seen, known, accepted, and loved: their guardian, their family, their home. As “prey animals” they have very limited ability to defend themselves and about as much reason to fear - and fear humans - as any species there is. Their trust and love are therefore as poignant a gift as I’ve seen any animals give. The way they can stretch out in the open, yawning, eyes closed, limbs extended, bellies exposed, blissfully relaxed - it’s like they’ve rediscovered a naive innocence: beside you, in their home, no one could hurt them. They’re my constant character witnesses. The kind of person I try to be I am trying to be first and most directly for them. If I’ve gotten through my own version of the change and loss and isolation and stress so many of us have experienced in various ways, with any success, so much of it is due to my relationship as their caregiver and dad. A rat who makes it to three and a half years is in human terms about a hundred and five. One very elderly little rat girl emerged, through all of those moves and changes and hurt and loss and anxiety, right beside me. Like the beautiful instinctually empathetic beagle, Anna, she knew and saw me at my most hurt and vulnerable. And she made sure I knew I was hers - I was needed - and whatever else changed we belonged together. Her last several months, she developed osteoarthritis, so I kept her stable when she ate and drank and took her medications, and, in her final weeks, when it was hard for her to groom herself, gave her sponge baths and hairdryer warm-ups. I bargained with her vet for antibiotics and finally a single dose of narcotics to give her before her final trip there. She was just a nervous, skittish little girl, free to a good home, literally handed to me in a slightly-ventilated Tupperware container from a car window outside the Hicksville, LIRR station. The personality that blossomed and bond that grew between makes her almost legendary to me. But they’re all like that, even the most nervous, antisocial rat, or cat, or dog. Seeing them learn to relax, to sleep out in their room, their house, out in open without a fear in the world, remains one of the most healing, centering, and motivating experiences I’ve known. To be safe just the way they [you] are, and to belong.

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Apr 21, 2022Liked by Wayne Hsiung

Bless you wonderful people for helping these Poor suffering animals!! I support you 200%!!

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Thank you for all that you do! You are a blessing!

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Apr 21, 2022Liked by Wayne Hsiung

you are beautiful! thanks for this fight!

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Apr 21, 2022Liked by Wayne Hsiung

Powerfully written. Good luck in court today Wayne! #RightToRescue

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Apr 22, 2022Liked by Wayne Hsiung

Beautiful writing, Wayne. You go to any lengths for the animals! It's so wonderful that now Julie can feel grass & the sun & true caring & love! thank you!!

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Apr 24, 2022Liked by Wayne Hsiung

NO animal in ANY lab! NO animal experiments! This is nothing but animal abuse in the extreme.

NO EXCUSE FOR ANIMAL ABUSE!

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Apr 22, 2022Liked by Wayne Hsiung

You are all so, so brave. Wish I was 1/4 as brave! Thank you for all you do and updating us on all your actions. Thank you. X

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Apr 25, 2022Liked by Wayne Hsiung

In the words of St. Francis of Assisi:"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."

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What can we do about this I can't believe that the law is behind this so what's there part getting money no law that was not involved would not allow this this is a horror story and Yu people are heros this could be a start to stop this plz let me know as a cizen I can do I have tears these people are mental disturb beyond help this ain't about testing they love to torture nobody in there right mind would do this for work that's why our country is sick how many years has this been quite for the law is behind this because they are stealing money the ones that need to be investigated is the place and we're all the money goes for this I know this every one of these people no questio ask will rot in hell these people would kill a human

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