Nude Mice Indecent, Says the Society for Indecency to Animals

Nude Mice Indecent, Says the Society for Indecency to Animals

SINA, the Society for Indecency to Animals is once more in the news.

SINA, (pronounced 'sinna') swam into public view in 1959  when bewildered pet owners found notes attached to the collars of their pets.  “Put clothes on me!” was the message.  SINA’s president, one G. Clifford Prout, Jr. went on television with a plea to clothe all animals taller than 4 inches. SINA’s motto was “A nude horse is a rude horse”.  The vice-president, Alan Abel went so far as to picket the Kennedy White House.

SINA magazine

While early on group membership soared, the organization was dealt a near-fatal blow when Mr. Prout was recognized as none other than Buck Henry, a CBS employee.  Alan Abel, the brains behind the hoax announced in a Time magazine article in 1963 that he had launched the movement as a protest against censorship. This, you would think, was the end of SINA.  But  no.  While membership did fall off, a core group of SINA followers vowed to continue to fight the good fight despite the treachery of its creator.However, the group had faded into obscurity until recently.

Wardrobe malfunction

Now, SINA is back!  The once-ridiculed Society had a brief resurgence over the 2004 Janet Jackson Super Bowl snafu, (Nipplegate).  SINA demanded publicly that humans cover their nakedness with clothing, but the group’s thunder was stolen when numerous other groups joined in the outcry.  Infighting began, with some of the members demanding that they stick to their mission of putting pants on dogs.  Others within the group disagreed. One member is quoted as saying “The  fact that all humans are animals aside, Miss Jackson is most certainly an animal!”  “Have you heard her sing?” one outraged member added.  “Case closed.”

The group remained quiet for several years, only to roar back into the public consciousness earlier this month.  What has this usually quiescent group up in arms?  Nude mice.  “It’s bad enough that animals with fur go around in dishabille”, a spokesperson stated recently, “but to breed a rodent to be intentionally nude goes against everything we stand for.”

Now with nude mice as a rallying point, membership is once again on the rise.

Nude Mouse

Nude mice, bred for their complete lack of an immune system are the darlings of researchers everywhere.  But there are drawbacks.  In fact, it is not only the nudity of the mice that has SINA up in arms.  It’s the cannibalism.  Researchers at the University of Kentucky found this a hard accusation to deny, given that the ‘nude mouse room’ is named for notorious cannibal Alferd Packer.

Packer ate his friends

SINA’s cause was beginning to gain some traction when news filtered down from Homeland Security that nude mice were being employed as state-of-the-art listening devices.  “These little fellows are impossible to detect with bug sweepers” a spokesperson announced proudly.  We just turn ‘em loose and wait.  When we collect them everything they’ve heard is stored in their little tiny brains.  We just wire 'em up and download the sounds directly to the computer.."

SINA’s spokesperson was not available for comment.

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