In the NIH-funded experiments, dozens of cats have their spines severed, vertebrae removed and electrodes implanted into their spines. The cats have water and balloons forced down their throats to force the cats to swallow on demand. The goal of the experiments is to identify the effects of spinal cord disruption on swallowing. All cats are killed at the end of the experiments.
ALLISON MCDONALD: The NIH has shipped millions of dollars to the notorious University of Louisville (UL)…for sickening and unnecessary tests to study how cats swallow after their spines are intentionally severed.
In UL’s NIH-funded experiments, dozens of cats have their spines severed, vertebrae removed and electrodes implanted into their spines. The cats have water and balloons forced down their throats to force the cats to swallow on demand. All cats are killed at the end of the experiments…
Records obtained by the White Coat Waste Project (WCW) through open records requests show that friendly, playful, and purring cats were tormented and killed by callous and greedy UL white coats with our tax dollars.
One small female cat, identified only as #M209882, was just over a year old when UL white coats killed her. One note in her records says, “She was purring so loudly. I couldn’t hear anything.”
Another orange-blotched tabby cat named Torti (ID# M209629) was also killed by UL white coats right after her first birthday. Heartless experimenters noted that she was “playful and purring” just four days before they killed her…
NIH grant funding UL’s cat experiments received $336,875 just this year and nearly $1.7 million since it started in 2018. This grant is slated to expire next week and we’re urging the NIH not to renew it. Other NIH grants that have funded these same experiments have raked in over $25 million in taxpayers’ money. SOURCE…
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