URGENT ACTION: Help Save Dogs, Cats, and Others From Military Experiments

Update (July 15, 2025): Unfortunately, the amendment that would have prohibited the U.S. Department of Defense from funding cruel and deadly wounding experiments on animals didn’t pass the committee vote. Thank you to all who took action.

You can urge the military to do the right thing by taking action below.

Tell the Navy to Stop Killing Animals

Tell the Army to Stop Killing Animals

Original post: A new bipartisan amendment aims to prohibit the U.S. Department of Defense from funding cruel and deadly wounding experiments on dogs, cats, primates, and marine mammals. PETA needs your help TODAY to make it a reality.

In 1983, PETA got a U.S. Department of Defense underground “wound lab” shut down and achieved a permanent ban on shooting dogs and cats in military wound laboratories. That ban now needs to be reinstated.

The life-saving amendment was submitted by Reps. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.-16) and Veronica Escobar (D-Texas-16) to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026 (H.R. 4016).

PETA recently exposed the U.S. Army for quietly reversing a decades-old ban on weapon-wounding tests on animals, allowing dogs, cats, and other animals to be inflicted with wounds from weapons in gruesome and pointless experiments, despite the widespread availability of superior, animal-free alternatives. Subsequently, the Army pulled its explicit permission for such experiments but has not yet outright banned this practice.