Nearly 4,000 beagles are searching for new homes after being rescued from a breeder who sells them to laboratories for drug experiments. The dogs were being bred in a facility in Virginia, America, and would have been used as test subjects until they no longer served a use to the laboratory.
Owned by a company called Envigo RMS, the facility was sued by the US Department of Justice in May following accusations of multiple acts of animal cruelty. Inspectors have described the dogs ' poor living conditions, with many being fed with food containing mould, faeces and maggots.
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