Fairfax's Homeward Trails is one of the nonprofits placing 4,000 beagles recently rescued in Virginia. Here's how you can help:
were bred for pharmaceutical testing. After a series of inspections found more than 70 animal welfare violations—including sweltering living conditions and unnecessary euthanizing without sedatives—a federal judge ordered the surviving dogs be removed from the facility within 60 days.
Of the 1,500 beagles that Homeward Trails is overseeing—meaning the organization is working to find them placements, often through other rescue groups—Homeward Trails itself will physically take in 200 to put up for adoption in the coming weeks. Bell says other local rescue groups will likely help with intake and adoption as well.
“Based on the 500 we previously removed, we found that they come in all sizes and social abilities,” Bell wrote in an email. “Ideally though we will seek those with another confident dog in their home, someone who has experience with shy and under-socialized dogs, most likely in a home versus an apartment due to a high likelihood they will take time to learn to leash walk and may be vocal.”
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