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Posted on 04/19/2026 9:01:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
BLUE MOUNDS, Wis. (AP) — About 1,000 animal welfare activists who tried to gain entry Saturday to a beagle breeding and research facility in Wisconsin were turned back by police who fired rubber bullets and pepper spray into the crowd and arrested the group’s leader.
It was the second attempt in as many months by protesters to take beagles from the Ridglan Farms facility in Blue Mounds, a small town about 25 miles (about 40 kilometers) southwest of the capital, Madison.
Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett, said in a video statement that 300 to 400 protesters were “violently trying to break into the property” and assault officers. He said protesters have ignored designated areas for peaceful protest and blocked roads to prevent emergency vehicles from entering.
“This is not a peaceful protest,” Barrett said.
The sheriff’s department said a “significant” number of people were arrested out of about 1,000 protesters at the site but did not give an exact total as they were still being processed as of the afternoon.
Protesters tried to overcome barricades that included a manure-filled trench, hay bales and a barbed-wire fence. Some protesters did get through the fence but were unable to enter the facility, where an estimated 2,000 beagles are kept, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
“I just feel defeated,” activist Julie Vrzeski told the newspaper about three hours into the operation after no dogs had been successfully seized.
Activists later moved from the Ridglan facility to protest outside the jail in downtown Madison.
The group Coalition to Save the Ridglan Dogs had publicized plans to seize the dogs Sunday but launched its operation a day earlier. The X account of the group’s leader, Wayne Hsiung, posted a picture of him being arrested.
The sheriff’s department said a person who “recklessly” drove a pickup...
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That entire scene reads like something you would see on a Michael Moore type Documentary or in a staged satire.
The Pink, Green and Blue Haired Welfare activists chanting their slogans, the sweet baying Beagles in their rusty cages, the rubber bullets and pepper spray drifting in all directions!
Is fauci hiding out there?
Protesters tried to overcome barricades that included a manure-filled trench, hay bales and a barbed-wire fence. Some protesters did get through the fence but were unable to enter the facility,
Anyone engaging in beagle torture should die a protracted and painful death.
Not to be outdone by “12 Monkeys”, Hollywood brings us “13 Beagles” infected with the Howling Virus. Blue, Green, Purple haired howling zombies everywhere.
hundreds, thousands, then 3-400?
I agree. This is not a lefty issue. It is a righty (as opposed to WRONGY) issue.
They picked the wrong target. The source for all of those beagles is the “Daisy Hill Puppy Farm” in Minnesota.
Beat you by nine seconds.
“I just feel defeated,” activist Julie Vrzeski told the newspaper about three hours into the operation after no dogs had been successfully seized. Just get some rabbits Julie and turn them loose.
Ridglan (torture)Farms: Jim Burns: allegedly the president and co-owner. Richard Van Domelen: allegedly the manager of the facility
It has crossed my mind more than once that, should I get a terminal disease, I would spend my remaining days meting out a little street justice. Those thoughts are only thoughts and are far removed from my actions and potential future actions.
Maybe we should do the same process for activists and breed them for study. Forcibly breaking into private property is against the law. If it was a personal home, the castle doctrine would come into effect and they could have been shot with real bullets. There are better ways to approach toe issue..
wy69
This is one story where I say, “A pox on all their houses.”
I thought Reump banned testing on Beatles?
John and George were unavailable.
“Before a new medication reaches human clinical trials, regulators typically require testing in both a rodent species and a non-rodent species. Beagles fill that non-rodent role more often than any other animal....That regulatory framework keeps beagles embedded in the drug approval pipeline.”
“Dogs, including beagles, fall under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), the federal law governing standards of care at research facilities. This is notable because roughly 95 percent of animals used in research, such as rats, mice, birds, and fish, are excluded from AWA protections entirely.”
“New technologies are beginning to chip away at beagle testing...The most promising are organ-on-a-chip systems: tiny devices lined with layers of living human cells”
https://scienceinsights.org/why-are-beagles-so-commonly-used-in-lab-testing/
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