You already know about the Department of Veterans Affairs’ cruel and wasteful experiments on dogs. With your help, we’ve made historic steps toward defunding and defeating it. We also worked with Congress last year to secure a phase-out of the VA’s testing on cats and primates by 2025.

Documents we obtained—including shocking never-before-seen photos and videos—through the Freedom of Information Act show that since at least 2015, the Cleveland VA has wasted over $3 million of your tax money on projects that involve torturing cats as young as 6 months old in disturbing constipation and incontinence experiments.

Photos and other records obtained by WCW show Copper the cat was killed on October 21, 2019. He was experimented on in a taxpayer-funded lab at the Cleveland VA.

The VA purchases healthy cats, performs invasive surgeries to implant electrodes to remotely stimulate their bladders or colons, severs some of the cats’ spinal cords, and then kills and dissects them.

The Cleveland VA implants electrodes into healthy cats so their bladders and colons can be remotely stimulated. Some of the cats’ spinal cords are also severed.

Some of the cats have artificial stool made from “bran, potato flour and saline” inserted into their anuses for the experiments. Records show the experimental procedures caused cats distress, seizures, bloody urine, and even depression.

Records show Odie the cat was killed on May 7, 2019. He was experimented on at the Cleveland VA.

The VA plans to kill 35 cats in these bizarre and wasteful experiments. Invoices we obtained show that the VA buys a batch of cats each August and September, meaning that the next delivery is coming up soon.  

VA Continues to ‘Torture’ Cats in Medical Research, Rights Group Claims https://t.co/hg5zKSnQHJ

— Military.com (@Militarydotcom) August 5, 2020

WCW already defunded the VA’s dog tests, and knocked out the USDA’s kitten slaughterhouse lab—which was the largest cat abusing lab in the entire federal government.

With your help, we’ll knock this one out next. We are 2 million members strong, and we get results.