- In direct response to White Coat Waste’s investigation and campaign, the University of Washington has confirmed it ended deadly muscular dystrophy experiments on dogs!
- WCW’s investigation uncovered a decades-old National Institutes of Health-funded (NIH) colony at UW that intentionally breeds dogs to suffer from muscular dystrophy and kills them in barbaric experiments.
- Videos and records obtained by WCW through the Freedom of Information Act show the dogs subjected to repeated injections, muscle biopsies, neurological evaluations, and limb twisting. They develop painful, body-wide complications like heart disease, muscle atrophy, difficulty standing and walking, and enlarged tongues so severe that they can’t keep them in their mouths.
- After undergoing this debilitating testing, all canines are killed by UW’s white coats.
- The lab has received $15,267,569 under just one NIH grant, including a $655,475 payout in April 2025, at the expense of American taxpayers. Its funding is set to expire on April 30, but records show that UW planned to apply for additional funding to breed and experiment on more dogs. WCW is working to shut it down.
- While UW insists that its dog testing is “unavoidable,” other Trump agencies like the Navy and the Department of Veterans Affairs have eliminated dog labs exposed by WCW.
- WCW will continue to hold RFK, Jr. and NIH officials accountable for claiming to be “working tirelessly” to eliminate dog and cat testing while doubling down on funding for pet torture at labs worldwide.
UPDATE (6/2/26): VICTORY! In direct response to White Coat Waste’s investigation and campaign that drove thousands of calls and emails, the University of Washington has confirmed it ended its deadly NIH-funded muscular dystrophy experiments on dogs.
University of Washington Confirms that NIH-Funded Muscular Dystrophy Experiments on Dogs Have Ended After White Coat Waste Investigation
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ORIGINAL POST (4/24/26)
In direct response to pressure from White Coat Waste’s (WCW) blockbuster investigations, National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials have claimed to be “working tirelessly” to phase out dog and cat cruelty. In response to recent Congressional questioning about WCW’s beagle lab exposés, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified, “We’ve ended most of it.” But that’s fake news.
In reality, the agency has continued to fund deadly pet testing at labs across the country and overseas — including at a University of Washington (UW) lab uncovered by WCW’s latest investigation.
For decades, UW, in collaboration with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has intentionally bred dogs to suffer from muscular dystrophy and subjected them to barbaric experiments paid for by American taxpayers.
A dog at UW limping through a cruel muscular dystrophy test funded with taxpayer dollars by the NIH.
Under one decades-old NIH grant, UW has received over $15 million in tax funding, including a recent $655,475 payout in April 2025, contributing to the breeding of and experimentation on these dogs.
Muscular dystrophy is devastating for canines. The disease destroys their mobility, atrophies their muscles, and causes enlarged tongues so severe that they can’t keep them in their mouths.
A dog intentionally bred by UW to suffer from muscular dystrophy struggles to keep his enlarged tongue in his mouth.
Videos and records obtained by WCW through state and federal Freedom of Information Act requests in July and August 2025 show that UW’s canine colony recently confined ten dogs for experimentation. It was originally established using animals from a now-defunct Cornell University lab and an NIH-funded University of Missouri-Columbia colony — hosted in the same facility where the agency is still bankrolling Fauci’s maximum pain beagle tests.
UW’s lab preys on senior dogs around six to seven years old by forcing them to endure invasive experiments late in life.
Dogs are subjected to up to 50 injections into muscles or veins, along with muscle biopsies, neurological evaluations, and limb twisting.
The suffering doesn’t end there. They also develop painful, body-wide complications, like heart disease and difficulty standing and walking.
Beyond the main grant, the disabled dogs are also subjected to experiments paid for with other taxpayer funding.
After undergoing this debilitating testing, the dogs are killed.
The UW lab’s funding is set to expire on April 30, 2026, but records show that UW planned to seek additional taxpayer funding to breed more dogs for deadly experiments.
While UW doubles down and insists that its experiments are “unavoidable,” other Trump agencies like the Navy and the Department of Veterans Affairs have already proven that dog testing exposed by WCW can be eliminated.
This wasteful, gruesome lab can’t be allowed to claim another pet’s life or taxpayer dollar.
It’s time for the NIH to end its taxpayer-funded dog torture for good.
