One of the biggest dog rescues in U.S. history is complete, as officials say nearly all 4,000 beagles have been removed from a mass breeding facility where they would have been sold to laboratories for drug experiments.
One of the biggest dog rescues in U.S. history is complete, as officials say nearly all 4,000 beagles have been removed.
The Humane Society of the United States said the last group of 312 beagles at the Envigo RMS LLC’s facility in Cumberland, Virginia, were removed on Thursday, and 52 of them were being transported to the non-profits care center. Eventually, they will all be taken to independent shelterss and rescue partners"to find loving homes."
"Our Animal Rescue Team’s work to transfer these beagles is a milestone in a fight we’ve been waging for years," Kitty Block, president and chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States,."It’s ironic that these dogs were only spared from a lifetime of pain, suffering and isolation in testing labs because this breeding facility was cited for Animal Welfare Act violations. Most of them would have been sold and spent their short lives in laboratories.
Beyonce, a rescue Beagle with one ear from the Envigo breeding and research facility, plays in a backyard at Homeward Trails Animal Rescue on Aug. 7, 2022 in Fairfax, Virginia.
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