The National Institutes of Health just approved another $826,000 in taxpayer funding for a University of Pennsylvania lab that conducts painful experiments on dogs.

For decades, this lab has bred dogs to develop severe vision disorders, subjected them to invasive eye experiments, and killed them when the research ends. Some disabled dogs have even been sold to other laboratories instead of being adopted.

This program has already cost taxpayers more than $46 million.

At a time when safer, non-animal research methods exist—and while Congress is actively considering legislation to ban painful dog and cat experiments—the NIH is still funding cruelty behind closed doors.

This is not lifesaving emergency research. It is a long-running program that causes extreme suffering to animals who cannot consent and have no way to escape. The public was never asked whether their money should be used this way.

The NIH has repeatedly promised to reduce animal testing. Continuing to fund this lab directly contradicts those promises and undermines public trust in federally funded science.

We are calling on the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, and Congress to immediately halt funding for painful dog experiments at the University of Pennsylvania

and to support passage of the Puppies Assisting Wounded Warriors (PAAW) Act, which would end this type of cruelty for good.

Taxpayer dollars should fund humane, modern science—not suffering.

Sign this petition to stop NIH-funded cruelty and demand ethical research now.