"Some dogs grow to adulthood without ever having felt the sun on their
faces or the grass on their paws. And a great many of these dogs are
beagles.
According to the Beagle Freedom Project’s website,
“Beagles are the most popular breed for lab use because of their
friendly, docile, trusting, forgiving, people-pleasing personalities.
The research industry says they adapt well to living in a cage, and are
inexpensive to feed. Research beagles are usually obtained directly from
commercial breeders who specifically breed dogs to sell to scientific
institutions.”
The Beagle Freedom Project is doing all it can to
change that by working to educate the public about the practice. They’re
also rescuing beagles that have spent their lives being tested in
laboratories and placing them in loving homes.
According to Jean
Geddes, the Beagle Freedom Project’s Outreach and Adoptions
Coordinator, not only are the majority of their adopters LGBT, but many
of their volunteers, donators, and supporters are as well.
Here are a just a few of these amazing pets and the parents who saved them."
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