Exhibit A: Iams

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) filed a claim with the FTC that Iams commercials were misleading, simply by saying their food was "Good for Life." The claim came out of a nine month under cover investigation of the research labs.

"When it comes to caring about dogs and cats, Iams is telling consumers one thing and doing another," said PETA Senior Vice President Mary Beth Sweetland. "Iams' customers love animals and would be outraged to find out how dogs and cats have suffered for Iams' bottom line."

Guy Webster, owner of Earth Pets Market in Gainesville, FL, explains that the tests Iams was doing were to determine how low-quality the food can be, and still have the dog retain muscle mass.

To do this, Iams cut chunks of muscle out of the dogs' thighs. PETA caught these images on video.

Other things shown on the video are:

• Dogs and cats, with names like H0B101 and HILMLM circling in their barren cages
• Paws that are splaying from walking on the slats of the cages
• A lab tech telling the undercover PETA worker to slap the dogs on the chest if they stop breathing
• Dogs laid on a cement floor after their operations, barely able to move
• Dogs with open wounds and hair loss
• Dogs and cats circling in their cages, suffering from loneliness and lack of socialization

The PETA representative also saw and heard things that were not caught on tape. She claims:

• The vets at Iams stuck tubes down dogs' throats to force them to drink vegetable oil.
• She heard coworkers talking about a kitten that had been washed down the drain.
• Coworkers who had to go home because ammonia fumes so bad that their eyes burned. The animals stayed in their cages.
• Cats had only a wood board to lie on, and they had nails sticking out of them. The boards weren't removed when one fell on a cat and crushed it, only when the lab director heard they were going to be inspected.
• The lab director ordered all the dogs to be debarked because the barking disturbed him. The PETA representative tried to intervene, but then saw a lab tech covered in blood after performing surgery after surgery.

The PETA Video

PETA's Web site about Iams