The Department of Defense has confirmed the cancellation of a $10 million contract to shove marbles up the anuses of cats and electroshock them, after Laura Loomer and taxpayer watchdog and animal advocacy organization White Coat Waste exposed the cruel experiments.
The unhinged tests, conducted as research into constipation, were highlighted by Loomer and WCW earlier this month.
BREAKING! Following a WCW investigation & campaign, @DeptofDefense has canceled wasteful & deadly $10M cat experiments!
We’re so grateful for advocacy from @LauraLoomer @elonmusk @SenRandPaul @RepNancyMace pic.twitter.com/gUU2cFdYFm
— White Coat Waste (@WhiteCoatWaste) May 17, 2025
Loomer reported, “White Coat Waste (WCW) has learned that the DOD’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently extended a $10 million contract to the University of Pittsburgh for inhumane experiments on cats. In these absurd DOD-funded animal tests, cats have marbles and balloons shoved into their rectums and are then electro-shocked for constipation and erectile dysfunction studies.”
“The DOD contract was supposed to expire in May of 2025, but a federal spending database shows the contract was recently extended to run throughout 2027,” the report added.
President @realDonaldTrump’s own Department of Defense just RENEWED a $10 million contract to shove marbles into cats’ rectums and electroshock them for constipation research.
How are experiments like these STILL happening under the Trump administration and why are they being… pic.twitter.com/1UcF2bebMO
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) May 8, 2025
Less than two weeks later, the Department of Defense confirmed in a post on X, responding to Loomer, that the funding was being terminated.
This is canceled. All waste at DOD is being removed. https://t.co/xo3InmZLrn
— DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) May 17, 2025
“This is canceled,” the DOD Rapid Response account wrote. “All waste at DOD is being removed.”
In April, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced plans to phase out animal testing requirements, starting with monoclonal antibodies and expanding to other drugs after a long pressure campaign from WCW.
FDA’s Move to Phase Out Animal Testing Hailed as Victory for White Coat Waste Project
The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has also pledged to eliminate animal testing, reinstating a plan originally introduced during President Donald Trump’s first term.
Earlier this week, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins also confirmed the department will end at least some of its primate testing before the 2026 deadline set by Congress. Since 2016, WCW had worked to expose how the VA was giving puppies heart attacks, injecting monkeys with angel dust, crippling kittens, drilling into cat’s skulls, and much more.
WCW is the only animal advocacy organization to shut down any government primate lab in nearly a decade, any government dog testing labs in almost 20 years, and any government cat lab in the last 40 years.
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