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you 😸😸😸! Now we're living lives we never thought were in
the cards for us. We have tons of toys to play with, are fed
lots of yummy treats, and get cuddles every day! We are forever
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Taxpayer, you saved us... and we're not kitten you! 😸

You donated to White Coat Waste Project
You tweeted/called/emailed your Members of Congress
You spread awareness about taxpayer-funded animal testing
You saved us from $22 million in wasteful government spending
You ended USDA's Kitten Slaughterhouse!


Now, we're living our best lives, Taxpayer. And it's thanks to
you!

We have toys to play with. We're fed lots of yummy treats. We get
cuddles from our foster mom who loves us so much! 💜💜💜

We even got to go to Capitol Hill to kiss the Congressmen who led
the charge to de-fund our abuse (see below!!)

You gave us a second chance, Taxpayer.

And we're forever grateful.


Xoxo,
Delilah and Petite
USDA Kitten Slaughterhouse Survivors









Picture purrfect: Cats saved from gov't 'kitten slaughterhouse'
visit Capitol

By Rebecca Shabad and Dareh Gregorian



Two lawmakers are the cat's meow on Capitol Hill.

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D.-Ore, and Rep. Brian Mast, R.-Fla., who were
instrumental in ending the Department of Agriculture's so-called
"kitten slaughterhouse," were visited on Thursday by two cats who
were spared when the government program was shut down earlier
this year.

"I'm so glad you're freed," Merkley said in his Senate office
while holding survivor Delilah, who was brought to the Capitol
along with another cat named Petite by the organization White
Coat Waste Project.






"I'm so glad you're freed," Merkley said in his Senate office
while holding survivor Delilah.


The group is a non-profit that combats wasteful government
spending on animal testing, and issued a report earlier this year
showing U.S Department of Agriculture's lab in Maryland had been
performing gruesome and fatal testing on cats.

Merkley told NBC News that he'd been unaware of the USDA's
decades-old program until advocates presented the information to
him.

"When I heard about the absolutely unnecessary slaughter of these
animals, I just thought that's just wrong, we don't treat animals
that way, and let's apply some pressure and try to change it. And
so I feel like I was a partner at the last moment after they've
done all the real work," he said.

The U.S.D.A.'s Agricultural Research Services lab, based in
Beltsville, Maryland, had been infecting cats with toxoplasmosis
and then euthanizing them since 1982 as part of its effort to
combat the foodborne illness.

"But these were healthy, healthy adoptable kittens," said WCW
president Anthony Bellotti. "Toxoplasmosis is something that is
treatable."

And some of the testing was downright bizarre - including feeding
cats tainted cat meat, the WCW found.


Over the course of the program, which cost $22 million, 3,000
cats were killed by the USDA. Delilah was born at the facility in
2013 and Petite was purchased from a breeder in 2015, the WCW
said. Both were used to breed kittens for experiments.




"It's not often that you necessarily get to just, you know,
have in your office and see the results of some of the work that
you do," Mast said about the cats.

Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., another lawmaker who played a role in
pressuring the USDA to halt the program, met the two cats in his
House office.

Mast and Merkley had been championing bipartisan legislation
called the Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now - or KITTEN -
act when the USDA announced it was ending the program in April.

"It's not often that you necessarily get to just, you know, have
in your office and see the results of some of the work that you
do," Mast said about the cats. "For me, it's nice to have you
bring them in here, and to see the results of a little bit of the
work that we got to do out there."

Fourteen cats that had remained at the facility were adopted out,
and Delilah and Petite are currently being fostered and are
expected to be adopted soon, the WCW said.

"Whether you're an animal lover, or liberty lover, you don't like
the government waste factor of this whole thing, this was
something that everyone could get behind. It's not a Democrat or
Republican issue," Bellotti said.







Please urge your Members of Congress to cosponsor Violet's Law to
provide a second chance to survivors like Delilah and Petite
abused in wasteful government experiments!


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To stop taxpayer-funded
animal tests, we must first stop the $15 billion+ in wasteful
government spending.

We find, expose, and
de-fund wasteful government spending on animal experiments. To
change public policy, we unite liberty lovers and animal lovers
with hard-hitting investigations and public policy campaigns.


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