Published May 18, 2026 by PETA Staff.

Animals at Washington State University are cut open and killed by veterinary students in a cruel Junior Surgery laboratory. After hearing from PETA, our supporters, and veterinarians, the university made the compassionate decision to spare eight healthy horses from this mutilation and death, but their fate is still in limbo. We’re now pushing for the release of the horses to reputable sanctuaries where they can live in peace and urging the university to end the use of goats in another laboratory where students slice them open in invasive practice surgeries before they’re killed. Please join our call:

PETA Scientist Makes Public Plea to End Goats’ Plight

May 07, 2026

At a recent meeting, a PETA scientist urged the Washington State University’s Board of Regents to ban the use of goats and other animals in terminal laboratories and instead use compassionate, animal-free teaching methods that save animals while preparing students for real clinical practice.

Eight Horses Saved From Slaughter After PETA Push

March 18, 2026

After receiving more than 36,000 messages from PETA supporters and the veterinarian group Our Honor, Washington State University canceled its planned horse-killing laboratory, saving eight healthy and adoptable horses from certain death. We’re now asking for the release of the horses to a sanctuary and for the university to continue modernizing its curriculum by ending a similar goat-killing laboratory.

PETA Urges WSU to Nix Plan to Kill Healthy, Adoptable Animals

March 12, 2026

PETA learned that Washington State University plans on killing eight healthy, adoptable horses and 60 goats in its College of Veterinary Medicine’s Junior Surgery laboratory and rushed an urgent plea to the university’s leadership asking them to instead release the animals to suitable sanctuaries.