Julie O'Connor

- A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation exposes National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded experiments at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) that cut cats’ nerves and spinal cords, pump irritating acid into their bladders, and wire them for electrical stimulation before killing them. - Three NIH grants involve eight cats slated for spinal cord severing, including four stimulated 23 hours a day for up to four weeks, 90 Marshall BioResources cats for invasive bladder tests, and 15 cats for lethal spinal cord and nerve experiments. - Pitt’s federal reports also document experiments in Category E — the USDA’s highest pain and distress reporting category — involving cats given spinal cord injuries and stimulator implants. - NIH awarded these three Pitt projects $1,767,348 in new funding under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., adding to the rhetoric-versus-receipts scandal exposed in WCW’s MAHA Betrayed investigation. - Following WCW’s campaign, the Pentagon cut its Pitt cat-testing contract in May 2025, yet NIH continues funding related cat experiments, including a project involving researchers from the canceled DOD work.

“PETA has been telling its donors that the ‘lights are out’ on Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone’s cruel infant-monkey lab, but federal records say otherwise.” via @CassandraRules @gatewaypundit thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09…

The press release says “reducing.” The checks say otherwise. 🧾 Every dollar, itemized here: whitecoatwaste.org/blog/2026…

“A bombshell White Coat Waste investigation released this week documents more than $225 million in new National Institutes of Health funding for dog and cat experiments awarded, supplemented, renewed, or extended since February 2025.” 📰 NIH Continues Pouring More Than $225 Million Into New Dog and Cat Experiments Despite Trump Admin Efforts to Shift Toward Modern Alternatives By Cassandra MacDonald, Gateway Pundit “A bombshell White Coat Waste investigation released this week documents more than $225 million in new National Institutes of Health funding for dog and cat experiments awarded, supplemented, renewed, or extended since February 2025. The total includes new grants and contracts, additional discretionary money for existing awards, and project extensions that keep taxpayer-funded laboratories running. By June, White Coat Waste had identified more than $150 million, and by early September the figure had jumped to more than $225 million, a roughly 50 percent increase. Nearly 44 percent of the identified spending, more than $98 million, went to pharmaceutical companies conducting dog tests. Another $11.7 million supported invasive cat experiments. That $225 million-plus exceeds the NIH’s highly publicized $150 million investment in non-animal methods, or new approach methodologies, by more than $75 million. … Records show a new grant of up to $2.4 million to the University of Minnesota for experiments on 60 kittens as young as two months old that include drilling holes in their skulls, injecting viruses into their brains, inducing strokes, and killing them. A $439,016 award went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to maintain a colony breeding nearly 300 kittens with glaucoma, some of which are killed before they are one day old so their eyes can be dissected. Vanderbilt University received approximately $3.9 million, including a new five-year grant approved in February 2026, for glucose experiments that put dogs on high-fat, high-fructose diets to induce obesity, diabetes, and liver failure before inserting catheters and harvesting tissue. Roughly $2 million flowed to the University of Utah for heart studies that tie off arteries, implant pacemakers and electrodes, deliver electric shocks and radiation, then harvest the dogs’ hearts. An additional $1.9 million went to a University of Missouri laboratory that infests beagles with ticks. Temple University received $305,627 to sever cats’ spinal cords and force them to walk on treadmills. A new $7.2 million contract supports a University of North Carolina colony breeding puppies with bleeding disorders. Syntis Bio got $916,400 to force-feed experimental weight-loss drugs to beagles. Dozens of Small Business Innovation Research awards totaling tens of millions more pay pharmaceutical firms to run investigational new drug studies on dogs for conditions ranging from cancer and ALS to opioid-use disorder. NIH officials, including Fauci-fan girl Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer, have said they are working to phase out certain animal tests and that much of the activity predates the current administration. White Coat Waste notes that while some projects began earlier, the agency retained full discretion over whether to issue new awards, add discretionary funds, renew grants, or extend contracts after February 2025. Those decisions continued. White Coat Waste, which previously forced the cancellation of nearly $2 million in planned Fauci-era beagle experiments in 2022, argues that a genuine phase-out requires an immediate halt to new dog-and-cat grants and contracts, a ban on supplements and extensions, and an enforceable deadline with measurable spending cuts rather than press releases about future intentions.”