When you think about animal testing, you probably imagine all kinds of different horrors. Maybe you think about how Proctor & Gamble is famous for sewing the eyes of baby kittens shut just to test human beauty products on them. You might imagine lab rats, bunnies, monkeys, and many other animals kept in cages, unable to see the light of day, injected with all kinds of harmful chemicals and diseases just to ensure that we won’t break out by using some new skin cleanser. (Of course, studies have proven this to be ineffective at best and harmful at worst; since humans are not the same as these animals, we often still get sick—even die—though studies showed ingredients safe on animals like pigs.)

But did you ever think that man’s best friend, the domesticated dog, would be the subject of animal testing?

I know that it’s wrong for animals to be tortured in the name of science (especially in the name of cosmetics), but for some reason many people find that they are okay with animals being harmed—until it’s a dog. Maybe it’s because they have dogs of their own. Maybe they actually believe that dogs are better animals somehow compared to bunnies and rats and monkeys (which is just crazy to me, since monkeys are pretty much our cousins and are so much like us to begin with). Whatever the reason, when it comes to dogs being abused, people seem like they are more willing to take action.

Now is the time to take that action.

Indian biotechnology company Vivo Bio Tech Ltd. is trying to build a $140 million animal testing facility in Malaysia. Why Malaysia? Because in Malaysia, there are absolutely no laws against animal testing—nothing on the books that actually protects the welfare of lab animals. The company’s plans include shipping beagles—two of my first dogs were beagles; their names were Casper and Rudy—and monkeys to this lab location to experiment on them without being monitored by any authority. This means that they can be starved, isolated, restrained, cut open, burned, shocked, dehydrated, brain-damaged, injected with drugs and diseases, and more—without any consequence.

Please write to Vivo Bio Tech Ltd. to day and ask it to not go through with these cruel plans. Let them know that there are many humane alternative methods of testing products—and that as a consumer, you do not support the torture of dogs and monkeys.