Tell Congress: Pass the PUPPERS Act!

The PUPPERS Act will permanently end dog testing at the Dept. of Veterans' Affairs.

WHY IT MATTERS:

White Coat Waste Project has exposed how the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been using your tax dollars to conduct wasteful and painful experiments on dogs. VA's experiments include giving 6-month-old hound puppies heart attacks, drilling into beagles' skulls, and severing "friendly" dogs' spinal cords.

The VA is the only agency conducting "maximum pain" experiments on dogs in which significant pain is unrelieved.

Following our campaigning, Congress has enacted legislation to cut funding for and dramatically restrict VA dog experiments in 2018 and 2019, but the VA is skirting the restrictions and we need to make this de-fund permanent.

Urge your Congress members to cosponsor the bipartisan Preventing Unkind and Painful Procedures and Experiments on Respected Species (PUPPERS) Act (HR 1155) to permanently stop taxpayers' money from being spent on the VA's wasteful and cruel dog experiments.

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As your constituent, I urge you to cosponsor the bipartisan Preventing Unkind and Painful Procedures and Experiments on Respected Species Act (PUPPERS Act) (HR 1155) to defund the VA's wasteful and most painful experiments on dogs.

I was troubled to learn from taxpayer watchdog group White Coat Waste Project that the VA is performing "maximum pain" heart attack tests on puppies and other wasteful studies.

Like 75% of Americans, I oppose these experiments and don't want my tax dollars paying for them.

A majority of veterans and many national veterans' groups--including AMVETS, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Retired Enlisted Association and others--oppose these wasteful and cruel taxpayer-funded experiments. So does former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, who recently stated he opposes VA's dog testing program.

In the 2018 omnibus and the 2019 VA funding bill signed by the President, Congress defunded these wasteful and cruel VA dog experiments, and the PUPPERS Act would make this spending restriction permanent.

Please cosponsor this bill to end taxpayer funding for the V.A.'s painful and wasteful dog experiments.

Thank you,

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