Most cats on the dissection tray were purchased from animal shelters, where they were waiting for a new home after being lost or surrendered. Some cats sold for dissection are strays picked up off the street, stolen from people's yards, obtained from "free-to-a-good-home" ads, or bred in warehouses, where they are often caged in filthy conditions and eventually killed.

These things don't need to happen!

What you can do:

• Download signs to spread the word about dissection.
• Check out a modern and humane alternative to dissecting cats.

Fetal pigs who end up on the dissection tray come from slaughterhouses, where they're cut from the wombs of their mothers, who were slaughtered for food.

This kind of violence isn't acceptable.

What You Can Do

• Download signs to spread the word about dissection.
• Find a modern and humane alternative to dissecting pigs at your school.

Before frogs end up on the end of your scalpel, they are stolen out of the wild — disrupting families and ecosystems — transported in filthy, cramped conditions; and then killed.

What You Can Do

• Download signs to spread the word about dissection.
• Check out a modern and humane alternative to dissecting frogs.

Who cares about rats? You should! Rats are intelligent, social, and friendly and don't want to be killed and dissected!

What You Can Do

• Check out a modern and humane alternative to dissecting rats and mice.

Animal Organs

The cows' eyes and sheep's brains that commonly turn up on dissection trays were not grown in a test tube. They were cut from the bodies of dead animals who were cruelly killed at slaughterhouses.

What You Can Do

• Check out a modern and humane alternative to dissection.