Dear Taxpayer,

I want to make sure you saw the big news:

Richmond has fallen! The White Coat Waste Project (WCW) just shut down the final painful dog lab at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA).

This Richmond lab injected latex into puppies’ arteries, forced dogs to run on treadmills, and surgically induced heart attacks. No pain relief. No anesthesia.

Richmond was the last VA lab still doing painful dog tests. With the end of Richmond’s dog testing, we’ve ended ALL painful and wasteful dog experiments at the VA.

Taxpayer, when WCW launched this historic investigation in November 2016 and our multi-year campaign in March 2017, over 216 dogs were abused annually across VA labs—including 111 in the government’s most painful experiments.

Now, no dogs are being abused in painful VA experiments.

Richmond follows our recent wins shutting down heart harvesting experiments on dogs at the Saint Louis VA (April) and successfully stopping Dr. Fauci’s $1.8 million experiments on beagle puppies (July).

In 2022, WCW shut down three government dog labs. However, since 2007 — for the better part of a generation — no other group has shut down any at all.

We’re effective. And we’re also proud to be the only group to have shuttered dog experiments across an entire federal agency.

Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to bankroll beagle abuse by bureaucrats in white lab coats—and now they aren’t at the VA.

Taxpayer, your support has made this the most effective campaign to end dog testing in American history. Thank you.

Stop the Money. Stop the Madness!

P.S. With your help, we ended painful dog testing at the VA. Now, let's give the same treatment to the National Institutes of Health (NIH)! Please send a pre-written email to your members of Congress demanding they do everything in their power to end NIH's taxpayer-funded experiments on dogs, starting with cosponsoring the Protecting Dogs Subjected to Experiments Act.

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HISTORIC VICTORY: VA ENDS LAST ACTIVE DOG TESTS FOLLOWING WCW CAMPAIGN

In November 2016—almost exactly six years ago—White Coat Waste Project (WCW) released its first major investigation called “Spending to Death.”

In the groundbreaking report, we exposed how government agencies were wasting millions of tax dollars to abuse puppies and dogs in painful and outdated experiments.

We soon launched the first-ever national campaign to defund dog testing at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

We set our sights on the VA because it was experimenting on hundreds of beagles and other dogs at agency labs across the country and was doing the most painful dog tests in the entire federal government.

Since then – with the support of Congress, veterans and whistleblowers – we’ve been steadily knocking out the VA’s deadly (even illegal!) dog labs.

WCW shut down the VA’s wasteful spending to inject latex into puppies’ arteries, drill holes into beagles’ skulls, collapse the lungs of “friendly” dogs, cut out living dogs’ hearts, inject Dobermans with methamphetamines, and force hounds to run on treadmills in heart attack tests.

Now, we’ve obtained documents confirming that following WCW’s six years of relentless campaigning, lobbying, lawsuits, and investigations, the VA has ended painful dog experiments at its Richmond, Virginia lab, the agency’s final holdout. 

Historic Firsts

WCW’s campaign to shut down VA dog testing has been one of historic firsts, including:

• First time ever that Congress enacted a law defunding dog tests and giving an agency a hard deadline to phase out animal tests (dogs, cats, and primates, specifically)
• First time an agency formally committed to cutting experiments on dogs (as well as cats and primates)
• First state law enacted (in Virginia) defunding maximum pain experiments on dogs and cats
• First time a federal agency enacted a lab animal retirement policy
• First time the National Academy of Sciences criticized a federal agency’s wasteful dog tests as “unnecessary” 

WCW Wins Big For Dogs

In 2016, when our effort started, the VA abused nearly 220 dogs in experiments. Now, zero dogs are being tormented in painful and deadly VA testing, and we’re going to work to keep it that way and extend the progress to other federal agencies (hear that, NIH?).

WCW is the only organization to shut down any government dog tests in at least 15 years, and we’ve wiped them out across an entire agency!

Taxpayer, please send a pre-written email to your members of Congress demanding they do everything in their power to end taxpayer-funded experiments on dogs, starting with cosponsoring the Protecting Dogs Subjected to Experiments Act.

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