Campaign Updates: Animals Sickened, Mutilated, Killed in Military-Funded Tests Abroad
Campaign Updates: Animals Sickened, Mutilated, Killed in Military-Funded Tests Abroad | PETA Close Mobile Menu PETA Donate Now Search Help Animals Urgent Alerts Our Campaigns Action Team Activist Guide Get Active Online Leaflets & Stickers News Features Videos Adoptable Animals Rescue Stories Investigations Investigations & Rescue Fund Report Cruelty to Animals Animal Rights Issues Animals Used for Experimentation Food Clothing Entertainment Companion Animals Wildlife Lifestyle Lifestyle 101 Personal Care & Fashion Food & Health Recipes Parents Humane Home Entertainment Animal Companions Students peta2 PETA Kids TeachKind Shop PETA SHOP Cruelty-Free Database Literature PETA Shopping Guide PETA-Approved Vegan PETA Presents About Our Story Our Views Victories Milestones Volunteer Work at PETA Intern FAQ Contact Us PETA Global Donate Now Donate Now Vanguard Society Tribute More Ways to Support Membership Services Gifts in Wills Corporate Partnerships Report Cruelty to Animals Skip to Content Menu PETA Donate Now Open Search People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Report Cruelty to Animals Animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way. Help Animals Urgent Alerts Our Campaigns Action Team Activist Guide Get Active Online Leaflets & Stickers News Features Videos Adoptable Animals Rescue Stories Investigations Investigations & Rescue Fund Report Cruelty to Animals Animal Rights Issues Animals Used for Experimentation Food Clothing Entertainment Companion Animals Wildlife Lifestyle Lifestyle 101 Personal Care & Fashion Food & Health Recipes Parents Humane Home Entertainment Animal Companions Students peta2 PETA Kids TeachKind Shop PETA SHOP Cruelty-Free Database Literature PETA Shopping Guide PETA-Approved Vegan PETA Presents About Our Story Our Views Victories Milestones Volunteer Work at PETA Intern FAQ Contact Us PETA Global Donate Now Donate Now Vanguard Society Tribute More Ways to Support Membership Services Gifts in Wills Corporate Partnerships Search Search Close Search Help Animals Urgent Alerts Our Campaigns Action Team Activist Guide Get Active Online Leaflets & Stickers News Features Videos Adoptable Animals Rescue Stories Investigations Investigations & Rescue Fund Report Cruelty to Animals Animal Rights Issues Animals Used for Experimentation Food Clothing Entertainment Companion Animals Wildlife Lifestyle Lifestyle 101 Personal Care & Fashion Food & Health Recipes Parents Humane Home Entertainment Animal Companions Students peta2 PETA Kids TeachKind Shop PETA SHOP Cruelty-Free Database Literature PETA Shopping Guide PETA-Approved Vegan PETA Presents About Our Story Our Views Victories Milestones Volunteer Work at PETA Intern FAQ Contact Us PETA Global Donate Now Donate Now Vanguard Society Tribute More Ways to Support Membership Services Gifts in Wills Corporate Partnerships Search Features Videos Adoptable Animals Rescue Stories Home / News / Campaign Updates: Animals Sickened, Mutilated, Killed in Military-Funded Tests Abroad Campaign Updates: Animals Sickened, Mutilated, Killed in Military-Funded Tests Abroad Share Share on Facebook Post Share on X Share Share on LinkedIn Published September 17, 2026 by PETA Staff . 2 min read Experimenters in foreign laboratories scald rats in near-boiling water, sicken dogs, mutilate mini-pigs, slice open octopuses, blind animals, and more—and American taxpayers are footing the bill. The U.S. Department of War has squandered more than $35 million since 2019 by bankrolling cruel and deadly experiments on animals overseas. PETA is calling on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to cut waste, fraud, and abuse by banning the Pentagon from funding foreign experiments on animals. Please join our call: Take Action PETA Demands End to U.S.-Funded Mouse Strangulation Experiment Attempting to Study ‘Intimate Partner Violence’ in Canada September 17, 2026 PETA sent a letter to the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering urging the Department of War to stop squandering more than $21 million on cruel Canadian tests on animals—including one in which an experimenter at the University of British Columbia subjects mice to strangulation, oxygen deprivation, and brain-injury in purported attempts to simulate “intimate partner violence” in humans. The Pentagon is also bankrolling experimenters in Canada who slice open animals, injure their brains, deprive them of oxygen, damage their vision, and more. This mouse is one of many restrained in a device developed in Cheryl Wellington’s laboratory in which an air-powered metal piston rapidly strikes the animal’s skull, causing the head to whip backward and rotate. Now, Wellington is using this method in a purported attempt to model traumatic brain injury associated with so-called “intimate partner violence,” including procedures that compress animals’ neck blood vessels and airways in a crude