The National Institutes of Health are supposed to be phasing out the use of Cats in cruel and fatal experimentation but that does not appear to be the case.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/03/nih-funds-cat-experiments

New grants include $486,000 to study blood flow in the brain after stroke. In the study 60 kittens will have portions of their skulls removed, have viruses injected into their brains, are paralysed and have strokes induced. They undergo brain imaging before being killed.

Another, investigating gene therapy for human glaucoma, received a grant of $439,000. Three-month-old “mutant” kittens bred with glaucoma, are injected in the eye with viruses, restrained for examination and killed. Their eyes are then removed for dissection.

Except with cats (kittens).

Let’s get on with it and finally phase out cat experimentation!

James Alan Pilant