At the end of the government’s beagle experiment, the contract says the dogs are “humanely sacrificed, necropsied, and telemetry transmitters recovered for refurbishing and future use.”

Read it again, Taxpayer.

The equipment gets saved. The dogs get thrown away.

That line isn’t ours. It’s the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s own statement of work, pulled off the government’s own contracting site by White Coat Waste. For contract #75N95024F00001, there is a $1,487,646 taxpayer-funded order to poison purpose-bred beagles with a drug the NIDA won’t even name.

And here’s the part that should have ended this argument years ago, Taxpayer: no law requires any of it.

HERE’S WHY: Congress already cut this red tape. The FDA Modernization Act 2.0 struck the animal-testing mandate out of federal law in 2022.

The FDA has said it flat out, on the record to WCW: “The FDA does not mandate that human drugs be studied in dogs.”

The mandate is gone. The spending isn’t.

WCW went through the awards that are still open right now. One of them runs out today:

• NIDA → SRI International — $1,487,646: contract #75N95024F00001, described by the government in four words: “GLP SINGLE DOSE TOXICITY STUDY IN DOGS.” Clock runs out September 12.

• NIDCR → RevBio, Inc. — $2,350,357: grant #R44DE029369, “A Novel Opioid-Free Targeted Pain Control Method for Acute Post-Operative Localized Pain Related to Oral Surgical Procedures.” Clock runs out September 18.

• $3,838,003 of your tax dollars. Two federal deadlines. Two chances to say no.

Taxpayer, this is what NIDA’s contract actually directs its lab to do to dogs:

• CUT OPEN FIRST: Beagles are “instrumented with surgically implanted transducers” and “implanted with a titanium vascular access port,” then given 4 to 6 weeks to “fully recover” before the dosing even starts.

• COCAINE BY BACKPACK: The drug goes in through “a programmable infusion pump carried in a jacket or backpack worn by the animal,” the contract names cocaine and methamphetamine.

• LEFT ALONE: “There shall be no personnel in the animal room after the vehicle control or test article has been administered.”

• DOSED UNTIL THEY BREAK: Another task on the same contract raises the dose “for 4-day intervals until determining the MTD” — the maximum a dog can tolerate before it can’t.

• THEN REUSED: Survivors are returned to what NIDA calls “the NIDA stock colony.”

And the waste is as documented as the cruelty. The FDA’s own harmonized guidance says “separate single-dose studies are not recommended” when the information already exists, and that “lethality should not be an intended endpoint.”

NIDA bought a “single dose toxicity study in dogs” for $1,487,646 anyway.

Taxpayer, here is why the next week matters more than the last three years: only $409,742.75 of that $1,487,646 has actually gone out the door. More than $1,000,000 is still sitting in the account with the clock running out. NIDA quietly pushed the end date back a full year in August 2025.

This is money we can still stop.

Without action, this will keep happening. The main contract has nearly $7.7 million left over through September 2028. The NIDA can use that money to order more dog tests. They will not even have to ask for new bids.

500,000 Taxpayer Signatures Needed!

Taxpayer, when you add your name, you are telling Congress and HHS to do three specific things:

• Audit NIH. The Government Accountability Office should determine how many open NIH awards are still paying for animal tests that federal law no longer requires, and what those tests cost.

• Let them expire. HHS should let expiring animal-testing awards expire instead of quietly extending the clock the way NIDA did last August, starting with #75N95024F00001 on September 12.

• Name the animals and the drug. NIH should publish the species and the number of animals on every award it funds. On this contract, the government redacted the compound out of the study’s own title. Taxpayers paid for it. Taxpayers get to know what it is.

Taxpayer, WCW has already proven this works. WCW helped end the mandate in law. WCW got FDA on the record saying dogs aren’t required. WCW has closed the largest federal dog lab and the largest federal cat lab, and cut off more than $99,000,000 in taxpayer-funded animal testing.

But a law on the books doesn’t cancel a contract. A deadline does if enough taxpayers are watching it.

Two deadlines. Two opportunities to help. Are you in?

Stop the Money. Stop the Madness!

P.S. The clock on NIDA’s beagle contract #75N95024F00001 runs out September 12 — that’s a hard government deadline. More than $1,000,000 of the $1,487,646 hasn’t been spent yet. Add your name before it is. Sign the Petition >>