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A stunning new investigation by the watchdog group White Coat Waste (WCW) has revealed that the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH) continues to fund disturbing and painful experiments on cats on the College of Missouri-Columbia (UMC), regardless of public claims that the company is “working tirelessly” to section out testing on pets.Newly obtained state and federal data present that UMC at the moment holds energetic NIH funding to experiment on 91 cats, backed by $528,052 in taxpayer {dollars} via April 2026. The undertaking intentionally inflicts spinal twine accidents on these animals earlier than subjecting them to cranium surgical procedures, pressured air flow, and repeated bodily stimulation designed to impress misery. These are sentient beings pressured to endure excessive ache and invasive procedures, in the end dropping their lives, all funded by the general public regardless of mounting opposition.Much more troubling, data obtained by WCW reveal that in recent times, UMC maintained a colony of cats used as blood donors, together with at the least 15 homeless cats acquired from Jefferson Metropolis, MO’s public animal shelter. The paperwork record the microchip numbers of cats, which means that the animals have been probably pets who ended up on the shelter after being misplaced or surrendered by their guardians. These weak animals, who ought to have been given a second probability at discovering loving properties, have been as a substitute positioned in laboratory cages and compelled for use as blood banks.The donor cats have been reportedly susceptible to anemia and dangerously low blood ranges because of repeated blood attracts. After spending as much as two years confined within the lab, they could possibly be killed if deemed “medically mandatory” reasonably than adopted out. Missouri doesn’t prohibit shelters from surrendering animals to laboratories in a observe often known as pound seizure, leaving deserted pets susceptible to ending up in experiments.In a separate NIH-funded undertaking at UMC, 32 cats have been deliberately bred to undergo from polycystic kidney illness, a painful situation that slowly destroys the kidneys. Funded with $214,570 in taxpayer {dollars}, younger kittens have been positioned on experimental diets, repeatedly scanned, and subjected to invasive pattern collections, inflicting infections, irritation, and extreme misery. When the research concluded, many have been killed by overdose and dissected.These revelations will not be remoted. Earlier WCW investigations uncovered extra NIH-funded experiments at UMC wherein canine have been contaminated with illness via tick-filled containers glued to their pores and skin and have been bred to undergo from deadly genetic issues.Whereas NIH Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer has described testing on canine and cats as ‘unconscionable’ and instructed that the company is working to scale back such testing, funding continues to circulate to laboratories conducting painful and deadly research on pets.“White Coat Waste’s new investigation exposes that the taxpayer-funded abuse of cats in laboratories—together with misplaced and deserted pets—is alive and properly. Paperwork obtained via open data requests element how the College of Missouri is losing state and federal taxpayer {dollars} to cripple cats by severing their spinal cords and drain blood from misplaced and deserted pets rounded up from a neighborhood animal shelter,” Anthony Bellotti, President and Founding father of White Coat Waste, advised WAN. “Taxpayers shouldn’t be pressured to bankroll the barbaric abuse of pets in wasteful experiments. It’s time to chop the funding and shut state and federal loopholes that permit misplaced pets to be tortured with taxpayer {dollars}. The answer is easy: Cease the cash. Cease the insanity.”In 2024, WAN broke an unique on WCW’s investigation revealing that the U.S. Division of Protection (DOD) was spending $1 million on painful canine experiments. Following WAN’s protection, Congress enacted a bipartisan modification to the 2026 Protection finances slicing funding for the DOD’s painful canine and cat testing, highlighting the facility of investigative transparency and public strain.Advocates are actually calling on lawmakers to move the Stopping Animal Abuse and Waste (PAAW) Act to assist cease the NIH from funding merciless experiments on canine and cats within the U.S. Signal White Coat Waste’s petition HERE!
A stunning new investigation by the watchdog group White Coat Waste (WCW) has revealed that the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH) continues to fund disturbing and painful experiments on cats on the College of Missouri-Columbia (UMC), regardless of public claims that the company is “working tirelessly” to section out testing on pets.
Newly obtained state and federal data present that UMC at the moment holds energetic NIH funding to experiment on 91 cats, backed by $528,052 in taxpayer {dollars} via April 2026. The undertaking intentionally inflicts spinal twine accidents on these animals earlier than subjecting them to cranium surgical procedures, pressured air flow, and repeated bodily stimulation designed to impress misery. These are sentient beings pressured to endure excessive ache and invasive procedures, in the end dropping their lives, all funded by the general public regardless of mounting opposition.
Much more troubling, data obtained by WCW reveal that in recent times, UMC maintained a colony of cats used as blood donors, together with at the least 15 homeless cats acquired from Jefferson Metropolis, MO’s public animal shelter. The paperwork record the microchip numbers of cats, which means that the animals have been probably pets who ended up on the shelter after being misplaced or surrendered by their guardians. These weak animals, who ought to have been given a second probability at discovering loving properties, have been as a substitute positioned in laboratory cages and compelled for use as blood banks.
The donor cats have been reportedly susceptible to anemia and dangerously low blood ranges because of repeated blood attracts. After spending as much as two years confined within the lab, they could possibly be killed if deemed “medically mandatory” reasonably than adopted out. Missouri doesn’t prohibit shelters from surrendering animals to laboratories in a observe often known as pound seizure, leaving deserted pets susceptible to ending up in experiments.
In a separate NIH-funded undertaking at UMC, 32 cats have been deliberately bred to undergo from polycystic kidney illness, a painful situation that slowly destroys the kidneys. Funded with $214,570 in taxpayer {dollars}, younger kittens have been positioned on experimental diets, repeatedly scanned, and subjected to invasive pattern collections, inflicting infections, irritation, and extreme misery. When the research concluded, many have been killed by overdose and dissected.
These revelations will not be remoted. Earlier WCW investigations uncovered extra NIH-funded experiments at UMC wherein canine have been contaminated with illness via tick-filled containers glued to their pores and skin and have been bred to undergo from deadly genetic issues.
Whereas NIH Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer has described testing on canine and cats as ‘unconscionable’ and instructed that the company is working to scale back such testing, funding continues to circulate to laboratories conducting painful and deadly research on pets.
“White Coat Waste’s new investigation exposes that the taxpayer-funded abuse of cats in laboratories—together with misplaced and deserted pets—is alive and properly. Paperwork obtained via open data requests element how the College of Missouri is losing state and federal taxpayer {dollars} to cripple cats by severing their spinal cords and drain blood from misplaced and deserted pets rounded up from a neighborhood animal shelter,” Anthony Bellotti, President and Founding father of White Coat Waste, advised WAN. “Taxpayers shouldn’t be pressured to bankroll the barbaric abuse of pets in wasteful experiments. It’s time to chop the funding and shut state and federal loopholes that permit misplaced pets to be tortured with taxpayer {dollars}. The answer is easy: Cease the cash. Cease the insanity.”
In 2024, WAN broke an unique on WCW’s investigation revealing that the U.S. Division of Protection (DOD) was spending $1 million on painful canine experiments. Following WAN’s protection, Congress enacted a bipartisan modification to the 2026 Protection finances slicing funding for the DOD’s painful canine and cat testing, highlighting the facility of investigative transparency and public strain.
Advocates are actually calling on lawmakers to move the Stopping Animal Abuse and Waste (PAAW) Act to assist cease the NIH from funding merciless experiments on canine and cats within the U.S.
Signal White Coat Waste’s petition HERE!
