• White Coat Waste is a project to get the government out of the cat and dog testing business
• Following WCW investigations and lobbying, Congress just advanced NIH spending legislation demanding a report on efforts to cut cat and dog experiments
• WCW worked with House Democrats and Republicans to secure this NIH transparency and accountability measure
• WCW has documented how the NIH is the worst offender when it comes to funding painful experiments on pets, which are opposed by over 70% of taxpayers.
• Since 2016, WCW has been leading efforts to find, expose and defund NIH dog and cat testing.

Since 2016, White Coat Waste Project’s BeagleGate campaign and other investigations and lawsuits have uncovered how the National Institutes of Health is the country’s single largest funder of cruel and wasteful experiments on pets.

We’ve exposed and stopped the NIH’s $770,000 treadmill experiments on cats in Russia, Dr. Fauci’s $1.8 million runny nose tests on puppies and, most recently, his misguided plan to revive discredited experiments on kittens.

But we’ve also documented how the agency continues to waste tens of millions of tax dollars each year to abuse and kill puppies and kittens in outdated and unnecessary testing in the U.S. and overseas. The NIH is also lagging behind other federal agencies that have reduced or fully eliminated dog and cat testing following WCW campaigns.

Now, referencing WCW’s exposés, Congress is demanding details from the NIH about its efforts to cut wasteful experimentation on pets.

The NIH’s 2025 spending bill advanced by the House Appropriations Committee includes language WCW lobbied for that requires NIH to draft and publicly publish a report outlining what it’s doing to reduce painful testing on dogs and cats, including NIH maximum pain tests where relief is intentionally withheld.

WCW worked with over a dozen Democrat and Republican lawmakers led by Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) to secure this transparency and accountability measure, including Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Brian Mast (R-FL), Bill Posey (R-FL), Aaron Bean (R-FL), Troy Nehls (R-TX), Don Davis (D-NC), Dina Titus (D-NV), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), and Scott Perry (R-PA). 

Our BeagleGate investigation exposing Dr. Fauci’s funding for biting fly tests on beagles in Tunisia made NIH’s pet experimentation a household topic, but that was just the tip of the iceberg.

Recent and ongoing NIH-funded experimentation on pets exposed by WCW include:

• Shocking cats with electric pulses to control their facial movements and slashing their nerves with scissors
• Septic shock experiments that force pneumonia bacteria into beagle puppies’ lungs and bleed them out
• Crippling “playful and purring” kittens, waterboarding them, and forcing them to swallow balloons
• Breeding kittens and puppies to suffer from debilitating genetic disorders for deadly experiments
• Rounding up abandoned pet hounds and strapping capsules full of hungry sand flies to the dogs’ so the insects can “feed” on them
• Cutting out cats’ eyes and electroshocking them
• Injecting beagle puppies with cocaine and fentanyl
• Infecting healthy cats with COVID and killing them

Is this how you want your money spent?