Beagle Who Spent Years In A Lab Cage Finally Gets A Family

[Bayard]

She was blind from testing by putting drugs in her eyes. Get out your tissues.....

No reason to still be doing animal testing.

[samnsara]

1. didnt the trump admin ok more use of dogs? someone should cage him...

[stonecutter357]

2. K&R

[bdamomma]

3. A beagle of all dogs????

poor thing. I hate these people.

[Coventina]

5. Beagles are most commonly used for testing, because of their easy-going nature and small size.

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Animal testing, no matter the species, is cruel.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. animal testing should be limited to those animals with TrumPutin DNA

A case could be made to also allow testing if DNA from Mnuchin, Pompeo, Ross, or DeVos can be matched.

[bdamomma]

14. That's horrible

what happened with using mice.

[StarryNite]

4. Thank you for sharing this!

Think how many Echos there are and there is NO reason to still be doing animal testing. I'm so happy for Echo and her new family. Finally she knows what it's like to be loved.

[MineralMan]

6. My wife and I adopted a ex-lab beagle four years ago.

The Beagle Freedom Project rescued 9 of them and adopted them out in Minnesota. My wife, who had been supporting the organization had also applied to foster one of the lab beagles, so we got Sam. They call him a "failed foster," since we adopted him right away, and he's been with us now, ever since.

He has no physical ill effects from the experiments done on him, but still has psychological issues. For example, he will not go down the stairs to our basement, nor will he let us carry him down there. We think the lab may have been in a basement.

No information about what was done to him is available. He has a number tattooed inside his ear, though.

He is a sweet doggie, with a very mild disposition. We're glad we were able to add him to our family, where he is loved and overfed.

Here's Sam:

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. that's a hug in those eyes!

[MineralMan]

9. He's a sweetie, for sure.

It took him about a month to relax with us. We got him in the Winter, and he would absolutely not go outside. It was pee pads all the way until April. Then, we leashed him up, carried him outside (he wouldn't go out the door) and off we went for a walk. He was totally amazed at being outdoors. Now, he gets two walks a day and has a dog door in the back wall of the house into our fenced back yard.

He loves children and women, but is nervous around men, so he probably has PTSD connected with men. He and I get along fine, but he still barks at me when I first come upstairs from my basement office.

We also have a beagle/basset mix and two cats, and Sam gets along great with them all. He's a good dog!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. it's probably a good thing you don't know how they mistreated him

The first dog I remember was a (mostly) beagle. He was a community dog; every day he made the rounds in the little town -- pop. 500 -- to check for biscuits at back doors. Toddlers could wallow on him and pull his ears and he never complained.

[Bayard]

13. What a little lover-pup!

Glad you found each other.

[PufPuf23]

10. I love beagles.

There should be a law curtailing or at least greatly restricting the use of beagles for lab animals.

[Karadeniz]

12. Bayard, you've helped a lot of us by posting this on a day when Trump's meanness and

Inhumanity are especially glaring. Thanks!❤

[Duppers]

15. Amen! Poor Echo and others like her.

Glad sweet Echo has a happy forever home now.

The kind of torture as Echo endured that caused her blindness must stop. 😭😡

Just got an email this morning from PETA re: stopping this testing here:

A "look at how PETA scientists, researchers, and campaigners are stopping deadly experiments and making historic progress for animals condemned to laboratories."

https://us.e-activist.com/ea-action/enclick?ea.url.id=313176&clid=10003&ea.campaigner.email=NWhXGNQHwyNciKJ%2FsfowiJku6OPFCMj%2F&ea.campaigner.id=jswyQTvejh0=

[Duppers]

16. More.... Some good news...

"After decades of PETA campaigns and after collaborating with PETA scientists,...

the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is now planning to end experiments on mammals, through the most comprehensive animal testing reforms ever introduced by any federal agency."


But this, unfortunately, doesn't stop China from continuing such testing as they did on little Echo.