In a crowded breeding mill in Virginia, a beagle spends day after day enduring chronic deprivation and loneliness in a rusty cage. The only food she has to eat is riddled with insect larvae, and the walls of her cage are stained with black mold and waste from other dogs caged above her. All around her, ailing dogs suffer from painful sores that are left untreated by the facility's operator.
This is what PETA uncovered by reviewing records and videos from federal government inspectors.
Beagles' small size and docile nature make them wonderful companions but also leave them vulnerable to breeders and experimenters who lock them in cages and relentlessly torment them. Most of those who survive breeding mills like the one we exposed in Virginia will be shipped off to laboratories, where they'll be subjected to crude and cruel experiments until they're killed or casually discarded like used-up equipment.
With help from caring people like you, we're calling on government agencies to reconsider their ties with Envigo, a major contract animal tormenter and the owner of that Virginia breeding mill; demanding that Texas A&M University release 29 long-suffering dogs from its laboratories; and helping researchers take full advantage of the modern, human-relevant, dog-free testing methods at their fingertips.
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