Taxpayer-Funded Cat Pipeline Exposes Animal Dealer That Supplied Animals for COVID and Virus Experiments at Cornell and Colorado State

A little-known lab animal dealer has been quietly feeding cats into taxpayer-funded virus experiments at major universities, according to records obtained by the watchdog White Coat Waste Project.

White Coat Waste’s latest investigation identifies Clinvet as a Class B dealer and research facility with ties to Marshall BioResources, one of the country’s largest commercial breeders of dogs and cats for laboratories.

Shipping and donation records show Clinvet has supplied cats that ended up in COVID and feline immunodeficiency virus studies paid for by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

At Cornell University, Clinvet donated cats for experiments in which researchers infected healthy animals with COVID, isolated them, and monitored them as they became sick.

Some cats used as controls were killed without ever being infected.

White Coat Waste says nearly $1.6 million was sub-awarded to Cornell from a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases grant for the work.

A separate $650,000 USDA grant for the same experiments was extended in May 2026 and now runs through May 2027.

New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets records obtained through an open records request show Clinvet transferred 45 cats to Colorado State University in May 2026.

CSU maintains a breeding colony authorized to hold up to 120 cats for up to three years.

The university’s protocol allows experimenters to surgically remove fetuses from pregnant cats and kill them for diagnostic assays. Mothers can be put through the procedure up to three times, with six months between surgeries. Kittens from the colony can be shipped to outside labs.

Between 2021 and 2023, CSU sold or transferred 45 cats to Oklahoma State University and Redbeast Enterprises and collected at least $22,960.

White Coat Waste matched names and microchip numbers in those records to an NIH-funded journal article.

Cats identified as Matcha, Morgan, Dolores, Juliet, and Pierce were among the animals infected with FIV, inoculated with COVID, killed, and dissected.

A separate NIAID-funded project at CSU, totaling $406,846, infected cats with viruses and then killed and dissected them.

The findings come after White Coat Waste released its “MAHA Betrayed” review, which documented more than $225 million in new NIH funding for dog and cat experiments awarded, supplemented, renewed, or extended since last February.

The Gateway Pundit reported on that tally last month in coverage of an FDA purchase order for young baboons.

Earlier Gateway Pundit reporting also detailed NIH’s quiet continuation of Fauci-era kitten experiments at its Bethesda campus and House Republican efforts, backed by White Coat Waste, to cut funding for painful dog and cat tests.

Clinvet is not as well-known as Marshall BioResources, Ridglan Farms, or the now-shuttered Envigo beagle operation.

Smaller Class B dealers and university breeding colonies keep the supply chain moving even as larger mills face scrutiny and as agency officials talk about shifting away from animal tests.

White Coat Waste is calling for the fiscal 2027 NIH, USDA, FDA, and EPA spending bills and the Farm Bill, to stop taxpayer money from paying for maximum-pain experiments on dogs and cats.

Rep. Nancy Mace introduced the PUPPS Act, aimed at lab puppy mills, after White Coat Waste tracked more than 1,500 dogs shipped by another dealer, and Rep. Nick Langworthy is sponsoring the bipartisan COMPACT Act to cut NIH funding for dog and cat testing.

The Cornell COVID cats were the subject of an earlier White Coat Waste investigation linked to Fauci-era NIAID funding.

Anthony Bellotti, President and Founder of White Coat Waste, told The Gateway Pundit in a statement:

“White Coat Waste was the first to expose Dr. Fauci’s ‘pet-to-pain’ pipeline at puppy mills Ridglan Farms, Oak Hill Genetics, Envigo, and Marshall BioResources. Now, our first-of-its-kind investigation has exposed Clinvet— a key supplier of cats to Fauci-era labs that the USDA and NIH support.

Inexplicably, legacy animal rights groups like PETA and PCRM still cheerlead for NIH Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer — RFK’s ‘animal testing czar’ — even as she refuses to shut down this pipeline. Under her watch, NIH approved more than $225 million in new funding for dog and cat experiments, despite Kleinstreuer’s false claim that the spending predates her.

White Coat Waste is leading the fight to end the U.S. government’s cat-a-strophic waste and defund pet profiteers like Clinvet. The solution is simple: Stop the Money. Stop the Madness!”