"Release the Dogs, Please.'"

In my letter to university President Michael K. Young on November 27, 2020, I explained that I suffer from muscular dystrophy and expect to die one day of the disorder. But I OPPOSE the cruelty and nightmares being forced on 24 dogs in the Texas A&M University (TAMU) medical testing laboratory in pursuit of finding a cure to my disease. This is not how I want to be cured. This is wrong. The university interns these dogs (most of them golden retrievers) and isolates them to cages while inflicting painful and frightening experiments on them (see: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2019/09/12/texas-am-researchers-quietly-bred-sick-dogs-in-hopes-of-finding-human-muscular-dystrophy-cure/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFE0NvVk6l4 and https://www.peta.org/features/things-tamu-doesnt-want-know-md-dog-experiments/

The university has agreed to stop breeding the dogs for their research purposes, but 24 of them remain. These 24 must be released to loving homes. 

I am hopeful for a cure for my disease one day, and the lives of others like me matter. But there are other, more effective approaches to researching muscular dystrophy in the works (see: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/1/eaap9004 and https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-oral-treatment-spinal-muscular-atrophy ). We must not seek suffering of others, especially dogs, to alleviate our own suffering.

Please support my letter and myself as a carrier with muscular dystrophy as I fight to free these 24 dogs.