My friend Chris Hoar (Pet Pardons founder) just wrote a beautiful piece on his Facebook about his experience with Shannon Keith (Beagle Freedom Project founder) and their rescue of the El Cajon 10. I want to share with you what he wrote because it moved me to tears. This is from Chris:
The beagles were rescued from a research and it is estimated they are between 5 and 10 years old, and every single one of them had most likely never even seen daylight before. ‘Research’ beagles are usually confined to a cage 24 hours a day 7 days a week, 365 days a year. They are not socialized, they are not exercised, they are not played with, they simply have no idea how to be dogs. They had scars all over their bodies where they had been injected with God only knows what, they had been cut open and poorly stitched back up (many of the wounds were either bleeding and or badly infected) most of them had advanced tooth rot & decay, and a lot of them were clearly in pain.
Beagles are used for ‘research’ and ‘testing’ because they are the most docile, loving, gentle and forgiving of all dogs. They will not fight back, they will not attack you no matter how much torture you inflict upon them and so they are ‘easy’ to ‘work’ with. What’s even worse to me is that the vast majority of ‘testing’ is done for 2 categories, products (such as household cleaners) & cosmetics/personal care products. Do we really need to test eye liner and dish soap on dogs?”
If you would like to find out more about these beagles & the Beagle Freedom Project,or you would like to become a foster parent for one of these beagles then please go to: http://beaglefreedomproject.org You can help these poor babies every day by NOT buying anything tested on animals. #vegansofig
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