Violet the hound was kept caged in a dark basement laboratory in Washington for most of the first year of her life and never had the chance to play outside.As a puppy she was deliberately infected with hookworms and plied with experimental drugs as part of a Government-funded pharmaceutical trial, before being fitted with a gastric band by medical students so they could practice before performing the surgery on humans.Violet was on course to be enrolled in a terminal study where her dead body would have been dismembered for further experiments. But in 2014, she was adopted by Julie , an activist who volunteered to play with lab dogs on her lunch breaks in the capital.
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