A Wisconsin dog-breeding operation that state investigators cited for nearly 500 violations has surrendered its license and released its last beagles to rescue groups, while federal regulators logged just six violations at the same facility over the past decade. The final 155 beagles from Ridglan Farms arrived at Big Dog Ranch Rescue in Florida this […] The post More than 2,000 beagles freed from Wisconsin breeding facility as federal oversight gaps draw bipartisan scrutiny appeared first on American Almanac .
A Wisconsin dog-breeding operation that state investigators cited for nearly 500 violations has surrendered its license and released its last beagles to rescue groups, while federal regulators logged just six violations at the same facility over the past decade. The final 155 beagles from Ridglan Farms arrived at Big Dog Ranch Rescue in Florida this month, completing a monthslong effort that moved more than 2,000 dogs out of the facility and into adoption pipelines. The relocation caps a saga that included a state criminal investigation, a judicial finding of probable cause for animal cruelty, mass protests, arrests, and a settlement that let the breeding operation avoid prosecution in exchange for giving up its state license to sell…Open
Kindred Companion Sciences is working to create pets, particularly dogs, free of allergens using a gene-editing technique called CRISPR. CEO Matt Walker joins "Morning in America" to introduce Bailey, a hypoallergenic beagle whose DNA was edited to remove the gene that makes people allergic to dogs. Start your day with "Morning in America," NewsNation's live three-hour national weekend morning newscast hosted by Anna Kooiman. Saturday and Sunday starting at 6a/5C. #MorningInAmerica NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
Matt Walker couldn't pet a dog without sneezing, until he and other scientists used a gene-editing technique to produce a hypoallergenic beagle named Bailey.
David Muir speaks with the two animal nonprofit organizations that helped remove the pups and shared their effort to get them adopted as the beagles head to some 40 states for their forever homes.
Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett said in a video statement that between 300 and 400 demonstrators were “violently trying to break into the property” and assault officers.
Some 1,000 protesters tried to storm a private breeding and lab facility in Wisconsin in an effort to free thousands of beagles that are bred for medical experimentation.
