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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Emma Dunn & Paul Britton

Woman spends 24 hours in dog cage after making it smell of urine - and streams it live on Facebook

A woman raising awareness of animal testing spent 24 hours in a dog cage listening to barking sounds and spraying vinegar onto the hay-covered floor to smell like urine.

Anne-Marie Barton, 44, who live-streamed herself inside the cage, said she wanted to recreate the experience of an animal bred in a laboratory and used for testing to educate others. So she stripped out her office, which has no windows and is separate to her house, and put down hay inside a cramped metal crate.

Then Anne-Marie played sounds of dogs barking on a loop through headphones she was wearing and only slept for around 20 minutes the whole time - getting out of the cage only for a couple of short toilet breaks.

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