Taxpayer, as you may have heard, Petite — my pet and hero — has earned her wings.  

My grief is softened by knowing how this brave animal testing survivor changed history and left the world a better place.

Sold for $695 to the U.S. government’s largest cat laboratory, Petite weighed just 4.9 pounds. They named her ‘Lil Petite’ and tattooed #15KEY5 in each ear. 

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For nearly five decades — inside our government and on the taxpayers’ dime — the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture bred, killed, and burned kittens in a secretive $22.5 million toxoplasmosis research program.  

Thousands of stray pets were rounded up from Chinese and foreign wet markets. The victims were fed to lab kittens in cannibalism tests… just 30 minutes from the White House.

Over 5,436 perished in USDA’s ‘Kitten Slaughterhouse.’  

Petite was a breeder in this laboratory, Taxpayer.  

On Apr 11, 2018 — less than 24 hours after White Coat Waste investigators discovered her — Petite weaned her first and only baby (govt ID #8072).  

Within three months, her kitten would be “killed and incinerated.”  

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I hadn’t met Petite yet. But I was determined to save her.   

WCW started a campaign.

CNN. Washington Post. Time. USA Today. BBC. We sued. We ran advertisements. ‘Kitten Lady’ joined her fight.  

Lil Petite united a big tent coalition of Republicans and Democrats in Congress. 

And… we won. WCW SHUT DOWN the fed’s top cat lab! 

Petite, on the ride home, the day WCW rescued her from USDA’s Kitten Slaughterhouse. 

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I was blessed to adopt Petite. Today, her big legacy is alive and well:  

• COVID Origin Revealed. After following USDA’s foreign money trail for kitten cannibalism experiments, our investigators asked: what else are we funding in China? In April 2020 — twelve months after closing Petite’s lab — WCW uncovered how U.S. taxpayers funded the Wuhan lab. It’s how the world learned NIH funded a likely lab leak. 
• Cut Animal Tests in Russia. But Wuhan wasn’t alone. WCW exposed how NIH funded 353 more animal labs across 57 foreign countries, including $770,00 to a Russian lab that forced crippled cats to run on treadmills. Then, we united the GOP and President Biden to end it — the first time funding was cut for animal testing across an entire country.  
• Closed the Fed’s #1 Cat Lab. Petite’s historic campaign ended the culture of losing. No other animal protection group had shut down a federal feline lab in four decades! 
• Ended Painful Cat Testing in U.S. Govt Labs. Petite’s was the first cat lab WCW shut down. But it wasn’t our last. Petite inspired WCW’s unprecedented five-year winning streak that closed every other confirmed lab causing pain and distress to cats inside the U.S. government.   
• Gave Other Pets a 2nd Chance. Before Petite’s campaign, no federal agencies had policies to retire animals as pets. They were killed and burned like trash. Now, dogs and cats have a second chance at NIH, FDA, Dept. of Defense, and Veterans Affairs labs. 

Immortalized for the ages: Petite’s campaign included in Webster’s dictionary. 

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Despite a rough early life, Petite loved everyone.  

She had a gigantic personality and a microscopic ‘meep’ for a meow. Petite loved her KitNipBox. She loved Cat TV.  

Petite even became something of a second mom, helping to foster orphaned and homeless kittens my family took in over the years. 

She was the sweetest pet I ever had. 

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As you’ll see in her official memorial video, WCW closed Petite’s old “home.” But I gave her a new one.  

Taxpayer, thank you for saving her life. 

So, I hope you’ll watch it. Then, I hope you’ll sign Petite’s official memorial card and share it with every taxpayer and pet owner you know. 

You Give. We Win. They Survive. 

Anthony Bellotti President/Founder White Coat Waste Project

P.S. Taxpayer, this small cat leaves a giant hole in my heart. But she also leaves the world a better place. As you’ll see here, Lil Petite has earned a big pair of wings. Please watch her unbelievable but true story. Then, sign and share Petite’s memorial card to honor her legacy. Sincerely —AB 

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