A woman spent 24 hours in a dog crate listening to hounds barking and recreating the smell of urine by spraying vinegar onto hay – to educate others on animal testing.
Anne-Marie Barton, 44, decided to livestream herself in the crate to recreate the experience of an animal bred in a laboratory and used for testing. She stripped her office, which has no windows and is separate to the house, and put down hay in a 125 x 80 x 90 cm (2.95 feets) crate. She played the sounds of dogs barking on a loop through her headphones and only slept for around 20 minutes the whole time – only getting out of the crate for short toilet breaks.
