No more pain: Cruel cat experiment lab closes for good

Stop it: The University of Wisconsin announces that its Department of Neuroscience laboratory, notoriously known for conducting inhumane experiments on live cats, is closing down for good.

A US research laboratory that conducts controversial experiments on live cats finally shuts down. (Warning: Article contains graphic images.)

The University of Wisconsin, in Madison, has announced that its Department of Neuroscience will no longer conduct experiments related to “sound localisation” because Tom Yin, the department interim chair and chief researcher, is retiring at age 70.