• Following a relentless White Coat Waste (WCW) campaign, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now saying it will phase out dog and cat testing after months of excuses, delays, and defending animal labs. 
• But the NIH hasn’t announced any spending cuts, timelines, benchmarks, or funding prohibitions, and is blaming others and claiming its hands are tied. Meanwhile, WCW is working with other Trump agencies to cancel and ban animal tests and retire survivors. 
• Now, WCW’s ongoing investigation has exposed Bhattacharya’s BeagleGate—renewed funding for Fauci-era dog and cat labs and bankrolling of brand-new beagle labs by the Trump NIH.
• Disturbing videos and related documents obtained by WCW show that the NIH just gave new funding and a five-year extension to a lab breeding over 600 dogs to suffer from crippling diseases and abusing them in painful, deadly experiments. 
• The golden retrievers, dachshunds, and other dogs—including newborn puppies—suffer seizures, brain damage, bone fractures, and vision loss. Experimenters inject substances directly into their eyeballs and hearts, slice them open and electroshock their muscles, and drill screws into their skulls. 
• The lab is also buying beagles to abuse in these experiments from the notorious Ridglan Farms puppy mill
• Documents obtained by WCW show that the NIH has also issued millions in new funding for projects, including cocaine and methamphetamine tests on beagles. 
• WCW is the only organization holding the NIH accountable for wasteful spending that harms both taxpayers and pets. While legacy groups issue performative applause for NIH bureaucrats, WCW follows the money, uncovers the cruelty, and forces Congressional oversight. 

Last week, directly following relentless pressure from White Coat Waste and Congress, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and NIH Acting Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer finally said they will phase out testing on dogs and cats after defiantly defending animal labs and refusing to take action for months. Meanwhile, other Trump agencies like the Pentagon have cut and banned dog and cat experiments virtually overnight. 

To be clear, despite its recent promise to “phase out” dog and cat labs, the NIH hasn’t actually announced details of this effort, including any spending cuts, timelines, benchmarks, or funding prohibitions. 

Instead of accepting responsibility and taking immediate action, Bhattacharya and Kleinstreuer are passing the buck and claiming the active NIH funding we’ve exposed for dog and cat labs “predates them,” but that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Our ongoing investigation has uncovered that on their watch, the NIH has wasted millions to start up many brand-new beagle experiments.

Bhattacharya and Kleinstreuer are also playing the blame game, telling the public that “legal constraints” force them to continue funding for dog and cat experiments initiated by their predecessors, even though they have the authority to cut funding now. 

A new White Coat Waste investigation has uncovered videos and documents detailing the University of Missouri-Columbia’s (UMC) multi-million-dollar, deadly dog labs for which the NIH recently renewed funding.   

Veterinary records, videos, and other documents obtained by WCW through the Freedom of Information Act and other research show that the NIH-funded UMC lab is wasting millions to breed hundreds of dogs to suffer from muscular dystrophy and other debilitating diseases that cause pain, vision loss, seizures, and death. 

Records show that in active experiments alone, there are 620 dogs slated to be bred and abused in this NIH-funded lab. 

The dogs receive injections directly into their eyeballs, muscles, and hearts, are sliced open for their muscles to be exposed and electroshocked, and have holes and screws drilled into their skulls, while some are killed by being bled out. 

The disabled dogs are also forced to walk on treadmills, navigate mazes, and undergo visual testing trials. 

WCW obtained internal lab records for the dogs that state: “These dogs suffer similar disease as human patients. They may have rapid weight loss, difficulty swallowing, muscle atrophy, respiratory and cardiac complications (such as aspiratory pneumonia and arrythmia), dermatitis, fever, hernia, bacterial infection, bone fracture, lymphoma and sarcoma.” 

This NIH-funded lab starts experimenting on these poor puppies when they are less than a week old. They state that the “neonatal death rate for affected puppies is 28-32%” and “[w]e will euthanize few normal and carrier puppies to collect tissues if control tissue is required.” 

The UMC lab breeds dachshunds to suffer from a disease that causes loss of visual tracking, retinal detachments, vision loss, progressive cognitive decline, seizures, brain atrophy, and ventricular enlargement, all of which become so profound that the dogs have to be euthanized when they are only 10 months old. 

This barbaric breeding operation has been actively funded by the NIH since at least 1999, wasting more than $23 million of taxpayers’ money. Bhattacharya’s NIH just gave it another $598,000 and extended its funding for another 5 years, allowing it to abuse dogs until 2030. 

Documents obtained by WCW show that the lab is also buying beagles to abuse in these experiments from the notorious Ridglan Farms puppy mill.

New records obtained by WCW show that, in July 2025, a @NIH-funded lab at @Mizzou bought beagles from the disgraced Ridglan Farms for deadly muscular dystrophy tests

WCW also uncovered another NIH-funded lab at Mizzou is buying puppies from Ridglan for max-pain tick bite tests pic.twitter.com/JBUh7VTPjE

— White Coat Waste (@WhiteCoatWaste) October 24, 2025

If this facility sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the one where Bhattacharya’s NIH is still funding Fauci grants for maximum-pain tick infestation experiments on beagle puppies. 

Is this how you want your money spent?