On May 4, 2025, the Trump administration’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) shut down the last beagle experimentation lab inside its Maryland headquarters, following a nine-year campaign led by the watchdog group White Coat Waste (WCW), investigative reporting by journalist Laura Loomer, and public pressure from Elon Musk.
Now, Loomered can exclusively report that 100 more beagles have been rescued from cruel government testing in a rescue operation by Kindness Ranch this week. WCW and the Kindness Ranch Animal Sanctuary have offered to partner with the Trump Administration to relocate animals from taxpayer-funded labs—at no cost to the public.
BEAGLES RESCUED FROM ABUSIVE TESTING LABS
Beginning last week and continuing throughout early June, Kindness Ranch Executive Director John Ramer will travel across the country to rescue more than 100 beagles from four laboratories in three different states.
Loomered has obtained exclusive photos and video footage from this week’s beagle rescues by Kindness Ranch.
FROM FAUCI’S LABS TO LOVING LAPS
Kindness Ranch, a nonprofit animal sanctuary based in Hartville, Wyoming, was founded in 2007 with a very special mission: to secure the release of former research animals and give them a chance at a happily ever after.
These innocent animals are released for various reasons—some because experiments have ended, others simply for being deemed too uncooperative for abusive research. Kindness Ranch accepts them all, helping each one move from labs to laps.
Amid growing pressure to end federal funding for unnecessary research on companion animals, John Ramer and Kindness Ranch have recently seen a remarkable increase in lab facilities’ willingness to work with them.
The sanctuary has rescued more than 2,000 dogs, cats, rabbits and other animals from laboratories across the U.S., China, and beyond. Kindness Ranch employs full-time staff who live on-site with the animals, providing the rehabilitation the former research animals need to be placed in loving homes across the country.
Ramer and Kindness Ranch recently rescued and adopted out over a dozen cats from a Fauci-funded laboratory at the University of California-Davis, which was shut down following a WCW investigation.
Ramer and his beagle, Uno— rescued from the breeder that supplied dogs to the recently shut down NIH lab and Fauci’s experiments—have joined WCW on Capitol Hill to lobby lawmakers to cut funding for cruel animal testing and ensure dogs, cats and other animals are retired to sanctuaries like Kindness Ranch.
Groups Offer to Help Trump Administration Retire Lab Animals
Kindness Ranch and WCW have informed officials in the Trump administration that they are ready, willing, and able to coordinate the rescue of animals from taxpayer-funded labs now being defunded by the President. They also recently partnered with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) to reintroduce Violet’s Law—legislation aimed at making lab animal retirement a government-wide policy.
This is good news, because during his first administration, President Trump previously supported lab animal retirement and signed an executive order making animal cruelty a felony.
Following WCW’s advocacy, the first Trump administration shut down the government’s largest cat laboratory, adopted out dozens of cats, ended nicotine tests on primates, and retired the animals to a sanctuary. President Trump also enacted the federal government’s first-ever lab animal retirement policies at key agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, Department of Veterans Affairs, Food and Drug Administration, and Department of Defense.
At the end of the first Trump administration, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler directed the agency to retire the bunnies in its labs. However, the Biden administration reversed that plan—resulting in the killing of several of the animals instead.
Trump Administration Retires Lab Animals
Trump officials have pledged to end the government’s barbaric experiments on dogs, cats, and other animals. Elon Musk has also promised to help eliminate this taxpayer-funded waste and abuse.
The Trump administration should accept WCW and Kindness Ranch’s offer to rescue the dogs, cats, and other animals that have survived government experimentation on taxpayer dime.
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