More pets are being sentenced to death in painful taxpayer-funded experiments because of holdovers and other bad actors at the National Institutes of Health who are lying to the public, attacking critics, and undermining the Trump Administration’s plan to reform the agency.
When Loomer Unleashed recently confronted NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya about the extensive evidence that under his leadership the NIH has been extending Dr. Fauci’s animal testing grants and issuing tens of millions of dollars in new grants that fund testing on dogs and cats, he said, “We’re not.”
That’s a lie. The most recent evidence is that the non-profit White Coat Waste has uncovered how, just last week, Bhattacharya’s NIH quietly issued a new five-year, $7.2 million contract to the University of North Carolina (UNC) to continue its notorious “bleeding dog” lab through 2029.
While current NIH officials like Bhattacharya and his Trump-hating, ActBlue-donating, Fauci-fawning Acting Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer claim that the NIH’s dog testing “predates” the Trump administration, federal records prove the agency has just recommitted new funding to keeping the gruesome decades-old project alive.
A Colony of Cruelty
Freedom of Information Act documents obtained by White Coat Waste paint a chilling picture of the NIH’s 78-year-old dog colony at UNC. The files reveal that the NIH-funded lab maintains between 120 to 150 dogs to “produce and maintain the required number of research animals for collaborative studies.”
The beagles, Scotties, Irish Setters, and other dogs are intentionally bred to suffer from Hemophilia and other severe, painful, and often fatal bleeding disorders. The project has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1947 and was first exposed by White Coat Waste in 2022.
Here are some direct quotes from NIH records obtained by White Coat Waste that detail the horrors these animals endure:
- “The animals bleed spontaneously as well as from trauma. When they bleed, they must be treated aggressively with blood products, and the effects of the treatment must be monitored.”
- “Dogs with Hemophilia A and B exhibit hemorrhages of the legs, chest, face and head, hips, and along the neck and back.”
- “dogs tend to have bleeding mostly from mucocutaneous sites. In all phenotypes, hemorrhages in the tongue and throat are particularly dangerous because of the potential for airway obstruction.”
- “Neonates are subject to hemorrhages when the mother steps on them or puts them in her mouth to move them.”
- “dogs will be needed to replace ones lost to bleeding, infection, or other causes”
- “One weakness of these animals is that they bleed often and if a bleed occurs just prior to an experiment, alternate dogs must be used”
The grant documents explain that some dogs will suffer from “bleeding from which the animal is not expected to recover such as bleeding into the central nervous system with irreversible neurological impairment, bleeding around or into the airway with impaired breathing, or extensive hemorrhage with shock, or overwhelming infection.”
Records obtained by White Coat Waste also confirm multi-million-dollar NIH-funded collaborations between UNC’s bleeding dog lab and Indiana University, Seattle Children’s Hospital, SUNY Buffalo, and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
The $7.2 million contract, titled “NHLBI Maintenance of Canine Models of Human Bleeding Disorders,” was issued by the NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, which is headed by Dr. Gary Gibbons, an Obama administration holdover.
NIH’s Empty Promises
In a July 10, 2025 video podcast that came soon after criticism from Laura Loomer, White Coat Waste, and Congressional Republicans, Bhattacharya and Kleinstreuer asserted that the agency’s problematic dog and cat testing “predates” them and claimed to be “working tirelessly” on a “phase out.”
However, on a weekly basis, White Coat Waste has documented millions in cruel new dog and cat studies funded by the NIH since Bhattacharya and Kleinstreuer’s appointment in April 2025, and millions more in renewals for inhumane research on dogs and cats that began during the Biden administration and Fauci era.
Undermining Trump’s NIH Reform Efforts
The renewed contract also undermines the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to clean up the NIH and cut billions in waste. As part of President Trump’s plan to overhaul bloated agencies, his administration has proposed deep budget cuts to NIH, calling out wasteful animal tests as prime examples of government abuse.
Trump’s Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought has even been highlighting some of the animal experiments exposed by White Coat Waste as examples of why the NIH needs a “dramatic overhaul.”
But instead of following through, entrenched Fauci-era bureaucrats and NIH holdovers are defying reform by quietly renewing animal testing programs that should have been eliminated years ago. While the administration pushes to end unnecessary animal testing and curb taxpayer waste, NIH officials are funneling millions more into the same cruel and outdated labs that have long embarrassed the agency.
Jay Bhattacharya and Nicole Kleinstreuer’s renewal of NIH funding to intentionally breed hundreds of sick dogs to be tortured in experiments is a disgrace. No American should be forced to fund a lab that breeds dogs to bleed to death—let alone one that continues in direct defiance of the Trump administration’s reforms and overwhelming public opinion.
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