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In this breeding, beagles are bred for a specific purpose: to provide laboratory dogs. And if this race was chosen, it is for its docility. Between supporters and opponents of animal experimentation, the tone is rising…
Beagle dogs were born here for a specific purpose: to become laboratory dogs. After having lived their first months in this breeding, they were sold to laboratories to carry out various tests. This kennel is one of the two French dog kennels reserved for research. This breeds only beagles, a breed chosen for its docility. During the tests, they are given or injected with human or animal drugs, food products, or other products, in order to test them before marketing them. They are also used to study certain diseases. These experiments, and this breeding in particular, crystallize two radically opposed positions: “Today, we come to pay attention, show, see these animals that some do everything to hide and that we forget that they are sentient beings.“, laments Cédric Villani, deputy of Essonne, mathematician. “What is reproached to this breeding is really caricature“, believes Gircor.
The owner does not wish to communicate the exact number of dogs present on site. We just know the maximum authorized limit, which is 2000 animals. These video images, shot by drone by the L214 association in 2020, are the rare close-up images that exist of breeding.
In France, there were nearly 1.9 million uses of animals for scientific purposes recorded in 2019, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. Among them: nearly 4900 dogs, that represents 0.3% of the total, and it is far behind other animals such as rats, mice or even fish. For light tests, dogs can then be re-adopted, but for other experiments they must be killed so that their tissues can be analyzed.