About 4,000 beagles are looking for homes after animal rescue organizations began removing them from a Virginia facility that bred them to be sold to labs for drug experiments.
“It’s going to take 60 days to get all these animals out and work with our shelter and rescue partners across the country, working with them to bring these dogs to an ever-loving home,” said Kitty Block, president and chief executive of the US Humane Society. .
Shelters from South Elgin, Illinois to Pittsburgh have begun taking in the dogs, which will undergo medical examinations, vaccinations and other treatments before being made available for adoption.
In May, the US Department of Justice sued Envigo RMS LLC alleging Animal Welfare Act violations at the facility in Cumberland, Virginia. In June, parent Inotiv Inc. said it would close the installation.
In July, Envigo made a deal with the government, without paying any fines. Inotiv did not respond to a request for comment.
Government inspectors found that the beagles were being killed rather than being cared for for easily treated conditions; nursing beagle mothers were denied food; the food they received contained maggots, mold and feces; and over an eight-week period, 25 baby beagles died from exposure to the cold, the Humane Society said in a statement.
Some were injured when attacked by other dogs in overcrowded conditions, he added.
The beagle rescue effort began much earlier, according to Bill Stanley, a Republican state senator from Virginia. “I tried to close them in 2019, but I was not successful. But over the years, we never stopped fighting.”
Source: CNN Brasil
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