A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation reveals that American tax dollars via the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are still funding cruel, outdated experiments on dogs, cats, and rabbits in Canada.

Through Freedom of Information Act requests, WCW recently followed the NIH money to Canadian cat labs at the University of Sherbrooke and Dalhousie University.

Now, WCW has also uncovered how an Australian pharmaceutical company funded by the NIH sent $1 million of U.S. taxpayers’ money to a Canadian lab for invasive drug tests on dogs. And in December 2025, the NIH paid the University of Victoria to infect rabbits with the sexually transmitted infection syphilis.

Read the World Animal News exclusive below. 

REAL photo from inside the Dalhousie University lab that collaborates with NIH-funded U.S. experimenters to sew kittens’ eyes shut to induce blindness and other vision disorders.

WCW’s Worldwide Waste investigation previously uncovered that Canada is the single largest foreign recipient of NIH funding for animal testing, with 45 different laboratories currently eligible for U.S. tax dollars. A 2023 federal audit prompted by WCW found that Canadian animal labs raked in nearly $20 million a year from the NIH.

Taxpayer funding for foreign animal testing continues under the oversight of the NIH’s ‘animal testing czar’, Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer, despite her pledge to phase out dog and cat testing last year. 

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