09/22/2026
PETITION | 2 OF 3
This is not what beagles are bred to become.
15,000 beagles are waiting in New York right now. Your taxes are the reason.
600
heartbeats per minute a dog's heart is driven to, in one NIH-funded experiment, until it fails
15,000+
dogs confined at one U.S. breeder right now, bred to fill orders like it
1 person signs the grants that keep every one of these labs in business
Figures from USDA inspection records and NIH grant records. See our source documentation.
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THIS PETITION IS ADDRESSED TO
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Director, National Institutes of Health
▸ He can't empty the kennel. He can cut the money that keeps it full.
THE PETITION
Stop funding the labs that buy these dogs — and the machine that breeds them stops with it.
In my last message, I told you why the labs choose beagles. Here's what they do to them once they have them.
At Ohio State University, in an experiment your tax dollars fund, a pacemaker drives a dog's heart to 600 beats per minute until it fails.
At Johns Hopkins, dogs are put into complete circulatory arrest on a heart-lung machine, and their brains are studied afterward.
These aren't old cases. They're funded and running now — you can search them yourself in NIH's own grant database.
The dogs come from a company in New York called Marshall BioResources — the largest lab-dog breeder in the country.
USDA inspection records this year put more than 15,000 dogs inside its walls, bred to order, waiting to be shipped to labs exactly like these.
Here's the part that should keep you up: these particular dogs haven't been hurt yet. They're in a kennel right now, healthy, trusting the next person who walks in. We're not too late for them — but only if we move before the orders are filled.
The only thing keeping that breeder in business is a buyer, and every buyer runs on the same federal grants — signed by one man, Dr. Bhattacharya, Director of the NIH. He can't empty the kennel. But he can cut off the money that keeps it full, and he can do it today.
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He'll only do it if the pressure is impossible to ignore. Next: why we know this works.
