The Beagle Effect: How Saving Puppies Enriched These LGBT People

[William769]

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 they 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.

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2012/03/05/The_Beagle_Effect_How_Saving_Puppies_Enriched_These_LGBT_People/

[joeybee12]

1. People who breed dogs to make them suffer need a special

level of Hell.

Animal research is about 99% unncessary.

[xchrom]

2. Du rec. Nt