• WCW’s new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) investigation reveals the National Institutes of Health has wasted $430,000 for abusive experiments on cats.
• Cats confined at the Georgia Institute for Technology have restraint devices drilled and cemented into their skulls, electrodes inserted in their brains, metal coils implanted into their eyes and are forced to complete an obstacle course over 100 times daily.
• WCW has been exposing similar taxpayer-funded cat abuse at Georgia Tech since 2022, revealing their ties to Putin’s kitten lab and the notorious Louisville Veterans Affairs cat lab.
• WCW has filed a federal complaint calling for this NIH-funded animal lab to be defunded and detailing how it broke federal law by not disclosing how it spent taxpayers’ money 
• The NIH is the country’s single largest funder of cruel cat testing and WCW is on a mission to obliterate it.
• No other animal protection organization has shut down federal feline labs in 40 years.

Federally-funded cat experimenters at Georgia Tech have a long rap sheet.

Most recently, WCW launched an investigation into an NIH-funded lab with Russian partners who took healthy cats, amputated their limbs, replaced their limbs with experimental prosthetics anchored to the bone, and forced them to walk around -sometimes on treadmills- before killing them all. 

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Louisville cat lab that we shut down after exposing it for severing cats’ spines and forcing the disabled animals to navigate obstacle courses had transferred some of the cats to Georgia Tech for deadly experiments.

WCW also exposed and ended a Georgia Tech scheme that shipped $770,000 of tax money from the NIH to a Kremlin-linked lab that severed cats’ spinal cords and forced them to walk on treadmills.

Now, WCW’s newest Freedom of Information Act investigation uncovered that white coats at Georgia Tech are still using US tax dollars to disfigure and torment cats.

This time, they’re implanting headgear in their skulls, coils in their eyes, electrodes in their brains, and forcing them to walk through a chamber over 100 times a day in exchange for food.

NIH-funded white coats crack open the cats’ heads and screw a bulky device into their skull that allows them to restrain the cats for the experiments, sealing it with cement. Then, the cats have metal coils implanted into their eyes and electrodes implanted in their brains.

Using food as a reward, white coats coerce the cats through a plexiglass chamber containing various obstacles. The disfigured cats are forced to repeat the process 90-120 times a day, sometimes even more.

In addition to completing repetitive obstacles for food, the cats are also forced to sit still with their head restrained in front of a computer for up to 30 minutes. They shift their gaze to various targets presented on the screen in hopes of earning their dinner.

When these cats are no longer of use to white coats at Georgia Tech, they are all slaughtered.

Your tax bill? $430,000!

According to Georgia Tech’s acquisition records, just one of these cats cost taxpayers $1,463. Even further, white coats paid $6,215 just to get her shipped! That’s over $7,500 taxpayer dollars to acquire a single cat, disfigure her, then throw her away like garbage.

Our investigation also revealed that Georgia Tech white coats violated long-standing federal law by failing to publicly disclose how much taxpayer funding they spent torturing cats in similar experiments. WCW filed a federal complaint to the NIH demanding they hold the university accountable.  

Is this how you want your money spent?

WCW is on a mission to obliterate taxpayer-funded cat testing. We take pride in exposing and closing U.S. government cat labs, like defunding the VA’s cat abuse and our successful efforts to shut down USDA’s Kitten Slaughterhouse and Fauci’s Kitten Slaughterhouse 2.0.

Up next? Ending NIH’s wasteful cat torture at Georgia Tech. You can help.