Pepper was a female Dalmatian dog from

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, United States, who disappeared in 1965, eventually to turn up euthanased in a New York hospital, having been stolen by an animal dealer who supplied

vivisection Vivisection () is surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure. The word is, more broadly, used as a pejorative catch-all term for experiment ...

ists. Pepper's story, along with a ''Life'' magazine article titled "Concentration Camp for Dogs", led to members of the

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and

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being bombarded with angry letters, the volume of which surpassed briefly those about either

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and the

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. This campaign resulted in lawmakers passing the

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* - first of a five-part article analysing the impact of Pepper Individual dogs Animal welfare and rights legislation in the United States {{dog-stub

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