Forced Swim Test

University of Bristol experimenters must drop these dead-end experiments and switch to superior, human-relevant methods before it comes back to bite them.

Activists gathered outside the Home Office to demand an end to near-drowning tests on animals with a 40,000-strong PETA petition.

Forced swimming experiments cause mice, rats, and other small animals to suffer for dead-end science. A new PETA campaign highlights their ordeal with a satirical image of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

Love Island star Lucie Donlan “treads water” to highlight the cruelty of the forced swim test on animals.

A giant “rat” visited the University of Bristol today to hand out freebies to students – revealing a truth they perhaps didn’t know.

PETA activists stormed the University of Bristol’s 2022 open day with disruptive actions to warn prospective students about cruel forced swim experiments happening on campus.

We’re urging universities and research and testing facilities to stop intentionally stressing animals using the forced swim test.

The forced swim test is no fiesta for the terrified animals who may think they are going to drown, says PETA “rat”.

Experimenters absurdly claim that the forced swim test tells us about human mental health conditions, but the science does not hold water and distressing animals does not help humans.

The University of South Australia has become a little kinder to animals after dropping the forced swim test. When will the University of Bristol follow its lead?