Following a WCW exposé documenting that the Cleveland Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center experimented on and killed dogs it told reporters it “adopted out,” the VA is being urged to create a formal policy allowing dogs to be adopted out from its laboratories.
In a letter to VA Secretary Shulkin last week, Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA), Dan Donovan (R-NY), Dave Brat (R-VA), Brian Mast (R-FL) and Dina Titus (D-NV) inquired about existing policies and procedures for releasing dogs from the VA’s experimentation facilities and encouraged Shulkin to adopt out healthy dogs to veterans. Read the full letter here.
After news that a VA testing lab killed dogs it said it adopted, colleagues & I are urging @SecShulkin to adopt out lab dogs to veterans. pic.twitter.com/pKclpgakrW
— Dina Titus (@repdinatitus) September 28, 2017
Now, WRIC is reporting that the Richmond SPCA is urging the Richmond VA Medical Center–home to the VA’s most painful dog laboratory–to release its dogs to the rescue group.