🐶 A huge dog rehoming effort is underway after 4,000 beagles were removed from a facility in Virginia which was breeding them to be sold to laboratories for drug experiments.⁠ ⁠ In what is thought to be one of the largest dog rescue efforts in US history, the beagles were taken from an Envigo site in Cumberland, Virginia after it was closed down following a litany of animal rights violations.⁠ ⁠ Government inspectors found beagles there were being killed instead of receiving care for easily treated conditions; nursing mother beagles were denied food; the food they received contained maggots, mould and faeces; and over an eight-week period, 25 beagle puppies died from cold exposure, the Humane Society said in a statement. ⁠ ⁠ Some were injured when attacked by other dogs in overcrowded conditions, it added.⁠ ⁠ 📌 Read more at the link in bio⁠ ⁠ #dogs #animals #animalcruelty #rescue #pet