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VIDEO. She releases laboratory-bred beagle dogs
The only floor they walked on was that of the laboratory. For the first time, these beagle dogs will feel the grass under their paws. Experimental guinea pigs, they could have ended up euthanized if Virginie had not taken them in. – (Raw.)
The only floor they walked on was that of the laboratory. For the first time, these beagle dogs will feel the touch of grass under their paws. Experimental guinea pigs, they could have ended up euthanized if Virginie had not taken them in.
“Beagles are dogs that are most used for medical experimentation because they have a blood system quite similar to humans”. Four years ago, Virginie founded La Maison des Beagles Libres. Today, she welcomes and releases five new female beagles who grew up in the laboratory. “We try to convince the laboratories to give them to us if they can live instead of euthanizing them when they no longer need them”.
300 beagles collected and released
Taken in until their final adoption into a foster family, when they are “loans”, the beagles are meanwhile becoming familiar with freedom within La Maison des Beagles Libres. “Each time an adopter or a family comes here, we ask them to put a sticker on this map which allows us to have an overview of where our beagles are. We freed them, but now people have to protect them” explains the founder. Since opening her shelter, Virginie has been able to save 300 beagle dogs.