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petsmart. Monkeys Repeatedly Choked, Struck, and Left Without Vet Care;
PETA Files 253-Page Complaint With the USDA

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earnings release will be distributed the same day, after market close.

To listen to the live call, dial:
Within the United States and Canada: 800-709-7416
Internationally: 706-679-5320
Conference ID #: 3161541
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Listen at www. At the
laboratory, in Vienna, Va."
For more information about PETA's investigation into Covance, please visit
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PHOENIX----PETsMART, Inc., At a news conference in Princeton
today, PETA revealed the findings of an 11-month undercover investigation into
Covance (NYSE: CVD) -- the billion-dollar Princeton , N.S.

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owns one of the world's largest contract animal-testing laboratories .
Broadcast-quality video and high resolution still photographs are available
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conference call announcing its results for the fiscal fourth quarter
and year end on Wednesday , March 2, 2005 at 4:30 p. (EST).com.

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, (NASDAQ: PETM) is the largest specialty retailer
of services and solutions for the lifetime needs of pets.
PETsMART provides a broad range of competitively priced pet food and
supplies, and offers complete pet training, grooming and adoption
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Department of Agriculture is
empowered to stop this type of abuse, yet its inspectors only enter these
monkey prisons once a year, and everyone at the labs knows which day that is.

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"The tape shows experimenters using their power over the monkeys to
torture and torment them while lab supervisors stand by or even join in," says
PETA President Ingrid E.com .

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PETsMART Inc. to Host Fourth Quarter/Year End 2004 Earnings Conference Call

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A replay of the conference call will be available through March 17,
2005. Since 1994, PETsMART Charities, an independent 501(c)3
organization, has donated more than $35 million to animal welfare
programs and, through its in-store adoption programs, has saved the
lives of more than 2 million pets.

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To access the replay dial:

In the United States and Canada: 800-642-1687
Internationally: 706-645-9291
Conference ID #: 3161541

The announcement will be archived at www. Newkirk.

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In 2003, an investigation of Covance's Munster, Germany, primate facility
revealed the same abuses videotaped in PETA's current investigation.

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The company
operates more than 700 pet stores in the United States and Canada, as
well as a large pet supply catalog business and the Internet's leading
online provider of pet products and information (www., PETA secretly videotaped repeated violations of
the federal Animal Welfare Act by Covance workers, including the following:

* Punching, choking, and taunting injured monkeys

* Recycling sick monkeys into new experiments

* Failing to administer veterinary care to severely wounded monkeys

* Failing to provide euthanasia to monkeys in extreme distress

* Failing to properly oversee lab workers, who roughly tear monkeys from
their cages and violently shove them into restraint tubes

* Performing painful and stressful procedures in full view of other
animals

* Monkeys with chronic rectal prolapses resulting from constant stress
and diarrhea

* Daily bloody noses caused by dosing small monkeys by forcing large
tubes up their nostrils and into their stomachs

* Monkey self-mutilation resulting from failure to provide psychological
enrichment and socialization

PETA representatives screened the undercover video and provided details of
a 253-page complaint filed with the U.

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Department of Agriculture that asks
for the laboratory to be shut down until a thorough investigation can be
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