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Meadow (govt ID# 14-062), UC-Davis Cat Lab Survivor
If Meadow could talk, here’s what she’d say: thank you.
I just got back from a visit to Kindness Ranch. I met Meadow, one of over 15
cats we rescued from experimentation at NIH’s UC-Davis laboratory.
Taxpayer, these cats were saved following a White Coat
Waste investigation.
We didn’t just stop NIH’s lethal kitten tests. After our win, UC-Davis also
announced plans to shutter its entire cat breeding colony. It’s a BFD. Keep reading to see why.
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In some hopeful news, the University of California-Davis (UC-Davis) has canceled
plans for new kitten experiments, shut down its cat breeding colony, and retired
15 cats to the Kindness Ranch Animal Sanctuary
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A Kindness Ranch social media post included photos of the rescued cats and
stated, “Fifteen cats used for breeding and nutritional research at UC Davis
have found their way to Kindness Ranch after the college reached out for help
closing its doors on their breeding program.” The sanctuary wrote, “This
collaboration between Kindness Ranch and UC Davis marks a critical turning point
in how research institutions approach the use of animals in science. The
decision to close their cat breeding program is a significant step toward more
humane practices in the scientific community.”
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The shuttering of UC-Davis’ cat breeding colony and the cats’ retirement comes
three months after the non-profit White Coat Waste Project (WCW)
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testing at the lab that intended to use animals from the school’s in-house
colony.
The now-canceled study at UC-Davis, funded by more than $419,000 tax payer
dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), planned to infect at least
10 kittens from the colony with Toxoplasmosis by feeding them mouse brains and
then killing them, according to public records obtained by WCW. The testing was
scheduled to take place in 2024.
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Following a WCW investigation that included Freedom of Information Act requests to UC-Davis and NIH earlier
this year, UC-Davis halted plans for the cat testing and announced its intention
to completely dismantle the cat colony it had maintained for decades to supply
animals for cruel experiments.
WCW’s President Anthony Bellotti stated that the cancelation of the experiments
and breeding program was a major accomplishment with far-reaching implications because UC-Davis supplied
many other labs with cats, including UC-Irvine
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“We’re proud that our investigation led to this important victory for cats and
taxpayers,” said WCW’s Bellotti. “UC-Davis’s decision to scrap its kitten tests and close
its breeding program will spare countless cats from pain and death at the
expense of taxpayers in labs across the country.”
In 2019, Bellotti adopted two cats released from a U.S. government lab that WCW
also stopped from conducting unnecessary toxoplasmosis experiments.
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