Tag: Cats

· Blog, Investigation

WCW Investigation: Tiny Kittens Tortured in NIH-Funded University of Florida Lab

  White Coat Waste’s (WCW) latest investigation has exposed yet another example of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) misleading American taxpayers about funding deadly pet testing. Videos and other records obtained through a WCW lawsuit and investigation have uncovered how the NIH is still bankrolling a University of Florida (UF) lab approved to abuse […]

· Blog, Breaking News

BREAKING: WCW Scores Wins for Lab Animals in Farm Bill

In a major win for taxpayers and animals, the House of Representatives just passed the 2026 Farm Bill with three bipartisan amendments backed by White Coat Waste (WCW) that cut U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funding for wasteful, cruel animal experiments at home and abroad and retire animals from government labs. Great news for accountability […]

· Blog, Investigation, Lawsuit

LAWSUIT: Auburn Sued for Records on NIH-Funded Lab Breeding Sick Kittens For Deadly Experiments 

  White Coat Waste is supporting an Alabama Open Records Act lawsuit by an Auburn University alum to force the school to release documents detailing its National Institutes of Health-funded kitten breeding and experimentation laboratory. WCW’s investigation, first launched in 2023, exposed how Auburn University breeds sick kittens to suffer from debilitating and deadly diseases, […]

· Blog, Instant Impact

WCW-Backed Violet’s Law Re-introduced to Save Govt Lab Survivors (UPDATED)

  White Coat Waste is leading efforts with Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) to pass bipartisan legislation to retire animals from federal labs. The newly reintroduced Violet’s Law, named after a hound rescued by WCW from a taxpayer-funded lab, would require all federal agencies to enact policies […]

· Blog, Investigation

WCW Kittengate Investigation: Tax-Funded Lab Abused Former Pets, Drills into Cats’ Skulls (UPDATED)

  A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation has uncovered that the taxpayer-funded University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC) torments cats in barbaric experiments, and even egregiously obtained cats from an animal shelter to abuse as blood donors by draining dangerous amounts of blood. New records obtained by WCW expose National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded experiments at […]

· Blog, Instant Impact

INSTANT IMPACT: Rep. Nancy Mace Urges RFK Jr. to Cut NIH Funding for Dog and Cat Testing, Cites White Coat Waste Investigations

  Citing new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigations, Rep. Nancy Mace just fired off a letter calling on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to end all current and future National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for painful dog and cat experiments.  Mace referenced new WCW research showing that, in January, the NIH doled out […]

· Blog, Investigation

WCW INVESTIGATION: New NIH Grant Pays Lab to Breed Kittens, Drill Their Skulls, & Induce Strokes at the University of Minnesota

  White Coat Waste’s (WCW) new Kittengate investigation series has uncovered that National Institutes of Health-funded (NIH) experimenters plan to abuse 60 kittens in a deadly lab at the University of Minnesota (UMN).   Documents WCW obtained through state and federal open records requests reveal that kittens as young as two months old will have holes […]

· Blog, Instant Impact

Following WCW Investigations, Lawmakers Target NSF Funding for Painful And Wasteful Animal Labs

  Following White Coat Waste’s (WCW) investigations, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has introduced an amendment to defund the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) painful dog and cat experiments. For years, WCW has exposed how the NSF funds labs that abuse dogs and cats, including inducing strokes in dogs, experimental drug tests involving repeated injections into puppies’ eyeballs, […]