Animal Right Group Files Complaint Against OSU

An Ohio-based animal rights group has filed a complaint against Oregon State University over seven animal deaths, including two cows at the university dairy. The Corvallis Gazette-Times reports Stop Animal Exploitation Now! filed the complaint with the USDA late last month, claiming the Corvallis school violated the federal Animal Welfare Act in the deaths of two cows, four lambs and one ewe used in teaching or research between February 2017 and September 2018.

University officials dispute the claims, saying the university takes good care of its animals and has done nothing wrong.

The complaint contends university employees failed to properly care for a dairy cow with mastitis, failed to prevent the death of another cow that choked in a headlock at the dairy barn, failed to properly protect four lambs that were killed by predators and failed to provide adequate medical care to a ewe that died following surgery.

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