{"id":758700,"date":"2019-11-04T07:08:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T12:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=758700"},"modified":"2019-11-04T07:08:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T12:08:20","slug":"exposed-hell-on-earth-for-dogs-awaiting-death-sentence-in-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=758700","title":{"rendered":"EXPOSED: Hell on Earth for Dogs Awaiting Death Sentence in Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The beagles are kept in cages caked with several inches of feces, rotting and covered with black mold. Roaches and other insects feasting on the dogs\u2019 food stores or laying their eggs in it.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PETA:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;PETA has uncovered shocking video footage taken by feds: At a dog-breeding facility in Cumberland, Virginia, hundreds of beagles being raised for laboratory experimentation are forced to eat food riddled with insect larvae out of moldy bowls and lie in their own waste. Ailing dogs suffer without veterinary treatment in hellish, decrepit buildings with unsealed and chipped concrete and rusted cages with rotting floors&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Inspectors found a dog with an ulcerated mass on her mammary gland, another who had little fur and was covered with scabs, and a young male beagle with red and inflamed ears, abdomen, groin, paws, toes, armpits, and lips. n some areas, cages were stacked atop one another. The beagles kept in the bottom cages were surrounded by walls stained with the waste from the dogs above. Some cages were caked with several inches of feces, rotting and covered with black mold. Roaches and other insects not already feasting on the dogs\u2019 food stores or laying their eggs in it, scurried around and through the cages, inspectors said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The beagles at the facility, bred for their manageable physical size and generally docile nature, face a life even worse than this after they\u2019re sold to laboratories. They\u2019ll be treated as equipment, no different from a beaker or a test tube, suffering through painful and pointless tests&#8230; The facility, previously owned by Covance Research Products and now owned by Envigo\u2014a major scalpel-for-hire, contract animal tormentor\u2014was cited for scads of violations by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspectors following a routine check&#8230; PETA is urging government agencies that have purchased dogs from the Cumberland facility to reconsider their business relationship with the company. 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