For its annual Summer Tour, from July 26th to August 11th, GAIA staged actions across 11 Belgian cities, to inform the general public in an original way on the suffering endured by dogs and cats used in laboratories for scientific and medical experiments.
Armed with paper forms and tablets, our team of staff and volunteers approached passers-by in order to collect as many signatures as possible for our “Pattition/Pootitie” – indeed one-of-a-kind, since it also collects signatures from our furry, four-footed friends to demand a ban on testing on dogs and cats.
It is clear that an overwhelming number of dogs (and their human friends) wholeheartedly support our petition: in total, 10.000 signatures were collected just during the Summer Tour. In addition, the feedback gathered by our team throughout the summer was also extremely positive.