“A bombshell White Coat Waste investigation released this week documents more than $225 million in new National Institutes of Health funding for dog and cat experiments awarded, supplemented, renewed, or extended since February 2025.”
📰 NIH Continues Pouring More Than $225 Million Into New Dog and Cat Experiments Despite Trump Admin Efforts to Shift Toward Modern Alternatives
By Cassandra MacDonald, Gateway Pundit
“A bombshell White Coat Waste investigation released this week documents more than $225 million in new National Institutes of Health funding for dog and cat experiments awarded, supplemented, renewed, or extended since February 2025.
The total includes new grants and contracts, additional discretionary money for existing awards, and project extensions that keep taxpayer-funded laboratories running.
By June, White Coat Waste had identified more than $150 million, and by early September the figure had jumped to more than $225 million, a roughly 50 percent increase.
Nearly 44 percent of the identified spending, more than $98 million, went to pharmaceutical companies conducting dog tests. Another $11.7 million supported invasive cat experiments.
That $225 million-plus exceeds the NIH’s highly publicized $150 million investment in non-animal methods, or new approach methodologies, by more than $75 million.
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Records show a new grant of up to $2.4 million to the University of Minnesota for experiments on 60 kittens as young as two months old that include drilling holes in their skulls, injecting viruses into their brains, inducing strokes, and killing them.
A $439,016 award went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to maintain a colony breeding nearly 300 kittens with glaucoma, some of which are killed before they are one day old so their eyes can be dissected.
Vanderbilt University received approximately $3.9 million, including a new five-year grant approved in February 2026, for glucose experiments that put dogs on high-fat, high-fructose diets to induce obesity, diabetes, and liver failure before inserting catheters and harvesting tissue.
Roughly $2 million flowed to the University of Utah for heart studies that tie off arteries, implant pacemakers and electrodes, deliver electric shocks and radiation, then harvest the dogs’ hearts.
An additional $1.9 million went to a University of Missouri laboratory that infests beagles with ticks.
Temple University received $305,627 to sever cats’ spinal cords and force them to walk on treadmills.
A new $7.2 million contract supports a University of North Carolina colony breeding puppies with bleeding disorders.
Syntis Bio got $916,400 to force-feed experimental weight-loss drugs to beagles.
Dozens of Small Business Innovation Research awards totaling tens of millions more pay pharmaceutical firms to run investigational new drug studies on dogs for conditions ranging from cancer and ALS to opioid-use disorder.
NIH officials, including Fauci-fan girl Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer, have said they are working to phase out certain animal tests and that much of the activity predates the current administration. White Coat Waste notes that while some projects began earlier, the agency retained full discretion over whether to issue new awards, add discretionary funds, renew grants, or extend contracts after February 2025.
Those decisions continued.
White Coat Waste, which previously forced the cancellation of nearly $2 million in planned Fauci-era beagle experiments in 2022, argues that a genuine phase-out requires an immediate halt to new dog-and-cat grants and contracts, a ban on supplements and extensions, and an enforceable deadline with measurable spending cuts rather than press releases about future intentions.”
