1-Click Action: End NIH-Funded Dog & Cat Experiments
- 600milliondogs.org
- Mar 24
- 2 min read
A three-month-old kitten is placed under anesthesia and locked into a metal frame so her head cannot move.
Surgeons cut away part of her skull to expose her brain.
Researchers inject a virus into her brain tissue and deliberately trigger a stroke to study blood flow and injury.
After the scans, she is killed and her brain is removed and sliced to measure the damage.
Some kittens are bred with severe brain disorders and injected with experimental treatments into their spinal fluid.
When the disease becomes so severe that they cannot lie down properly, the kittens are killed
Dogs are subjected to painful tests as well.
Beagle puppies have containers of infected ticks strapped to their bare skin so the ticks can bite them repeatedly.
Some are denied pain relief, while others are force-fed or injected with drugs every day for months to test toxicity.
These experiments are funded through federal appropriations approved by Congress and distributed through the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Even after public statements about phasing out dog and cat testing, Congress has continued approving the funding that allows these grants to move forward.
More than $1.7 million has recently gone to cat experiments alone, including studies where kittens have viruses injected into their eyes and are later killed so their eyes can be dissected.
About 92 to 96 percent of drugs that pass animal tests fail in human trials, which means animals suffer for nothing.
Other federal departments, including the Department of Veterans Affairs and branches of the Pentagon, have already ended dog and cat testing.
Congress controls the funding to the NIH.
The Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies has the authority to restrict or eliminate funding for these projects.
Your signature will be delivered to the Chairman and members of the committee that controls NIH funding.
They have the power to stop taxpayer funding for these dog and cat experiments.
Taxpayer dollars should not bankroll procedures that cause extreme pain and death to dogs and cats when federal agencies have already shown these experiments can end.
Congress must cut the funding that allows this suffering to continue.
Thank you for taking action for animals!
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