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Taxpayer, remember NIH’s last in-house beagle lab?
Remember the 2,133 dead dogs— stuffed in a refrigerator?
We just obtained records showing Jay Bhattacharya’s NIH was STILL defending that
lab as recently as April 15—Tax Day—and planning to kill 24 more dogs.
Legacy groups ignored it.
White Coat Waste shut it down.
We’ve got the receipts.
Read the full investigation below.
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NIH Beagle Lab Shut Down By WCW Planned to Kill Dogs Through 2026
* Last month, following a nine-year White Coat Waste (WCW) campaign, the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) shut down its last in-house beagle
laboratory.
* WCW first exposed this lab in 2016—no one else did. Over 40 years, it slaughtered more than 2,100 beagles. It was the federal
government’s largest and last confirmed in-house dog lab.
* NIH defended the lab’s merit as recently as April 15, 2025—and planned to
kill 24 more dogs through 2026. New NIH records obtained by WCW show the lab was funded through August 2026
and scheduled more painful experiments. WCW’s campaign spared those beagles.
* WCW didn’t just lead this campaign—we built it from scratch. We filed 15 FOIA requests, launched 3 federal lawsuits, mobilized a national
grassroots uprising, and ran the only federal lobbying campaign to shut it down. WCW alone brought the case to
DOGE—and forced the closure.
* No legacy animal group targeted this NIH lab. None filed lawsuits, submitted FOIAs, or lobbied to shut this beagle lab down—and none has closed a government dog lab in nearly 20 years.
Last month, the Trump Administration shut down
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nine-year WCW campaign.
Our investigation
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pneumonia-causing bacteria into beagles’ lungs, bled them out, and forced them
into septic shock. The NIH then killed the beagles—over 2,100 of them—and
stuffed their bodies into a refrigerator.
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Now, NIH records obtained by WCW through the Freedom of Information Act show
that—before we got the Trump Administration to take action in May—the agency
planned to continue funding this barbaric dog lab through at least August 2026
and kill 24 more beagles. The NIH also told Congress that the project was still
active as of April 15, 2025, just two weeks before the cancelation announcement.
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If not for WCW, these dogs would have met the same fate as the last group of
beagles the NIH purchased in the spring of 2024.
Invoices and other NIH documents secured by WCW show that this NIH lab purchased
4 beagles in April 2024 and another in June 2024. Lab records detail how all
were abused in the deadly experiments the NIH just shut down.
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Records show that the dogs had holes cut into their throats, bacteria that cause
pneumonia pumped into their lungs, and were then allowed to suffer for up to 92
hours as they went into septic shock. Any beagles who survived for 92 hours were
then killed.
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Taxpayers and pet owners shouldn’t be forced to pay for the NIH’s beagle abuse,
and now, following a WCW campaign, they won’t have to.
We’re on a roll, too. Days after the NIH announcement, the Department of Defense
canceled a $10 million contract for cruel cat experiments
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