{"id":765737,"date":"2021-11-12T08:13:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T13:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=765737"},"modified":"2021-11-12T08:36:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T13:36:25","slug":"undercover-investigation-desperate-dogs-bred-for-experimentation-in-prison-like-warehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=765737","title":{"rendered":"EXPOSED: Puppy dogs bred in horrific conditions for experimentation in prison-like warehouse"},"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>Over the course of the investigation, more than 350 puppies were found dead among their live littermates and mothers. Some puppies had been inadvertently crushed to death by their mothers inside the cramped cages.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>PETA:<\/strong> A 2021 PETA undercover investigation found 5,000 beagle dogs and puppies intensively confined to small, barren kennels and cages 24\/7 at a massive breeding mill in Cumberland, Virginia. During the course of the investigation, the mill was owned and operated by Envigo. Based on PETA\u2019s evidence, a team of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials conducted a multiday inspection of the mill&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Over the course of the investigation, PETA\u2019s eyewitness found more than 350 puppies dead among their live littermates and mothers. Some puppies had been inadvertently crushed to death by their mothers inside the cramped cages, while others suffered from hydrocephalus (in which fluid builds up inside the skull and puts pressure on the brain), were eviscerated, or just couldn\u2019t survive the harsh conditions&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>PETA\u2019s investigator found a puppy whose body was split open, was rotting, and smelled rancid in a cage with the puppy\u2019s mother and littermates. A worker said, \u201cThat puppy\u2019s probably been in there since Friday&#8221;&#8230; Some puppies fell through holes in the cages and ended up in drains, soaking wet and covered with feces, bedding, and waste. Typically, they did not survive. The dogs had no beds, no toys, no stimulation\u2014no real lives. For more than 50 years, various companies have bred them at this dog factory farm to sell to laboratories for experimentation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The dogs were kept in sheds that stretched as long as a football field and were deafeningly loud when hundreds of them barked at once. The noise level reached over 117 decibels\u2014louder than a rock concert\u2014and of course, the dogs have no way to escape from the virtually constant noise. Dogs\u2019 hearing is much more sensitive than humans\u2019\u2014they hear sounds that we cannot and from much farther away. The crowded and stressful conditions cause the animals to fight, often resulting in injuries, especially to their ears.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Female dogs are bred repeatedly for years. Many gave birth to puppies on the hard floor. &#8220;A supervisor found one pregnant dog afflicted with a fever. The next day, a worker found her \u201cdead\u2014like stiff as a board,\u201d with \u201ctwo puppies in her and \u2026 they had torn through her uterus [and] were just kind of floating around in her abdomen. So all like \u2026 the afterbirth \u2026 was all \u2026 in her stomach. And I think that just led to a massive infection&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Workers [KILLED] some puppies by trying to inject euthanasia solution into their hearts while they were conscious and able to feel the needle penetrating their chest, contrary to veterinary guidelines for euthanasia&#8230; Some workers did little\u2014or nothing at all\u2014to verify that animals were dead before putting them into plastic bags&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>For their final 48 hours with the puppies, workers intentionally deprived nursing mothers of food. According to a supervisor, USDA inspectors told management in July to feed the dogs through their last nursing day, but the supervisor refused and continued to deny the mother dogs even half a cup of kibble.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>After telling PETA\u2019s investigator and another worker that nursing dogs \u201cdid not get fed,\u201d the supervisor cautioned, \u201c[I]f too many people know it, it\u2019s gonna get out that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing, and then it\u2019s gonna get bad&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Experiments on these beagles and other animals are cruel and unethical, but did you know that a staggering 90% of basic research, most of which involves animals, fails to lead to treatments for humans? Yet the biggest funder of research in the U.S., the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spends nearly half its annual budget on animal studies. That\u2019s $19.6 billion down the drain every year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>We need a better way\u2014and PETA scientists have come up with it. The Research Modernization Deal outlines a roadmap and strategy for optimizing our nation\u2019s investment in research to cure disease\u2014by ending funding for experiments on animals and investing in research that\u2019s relevant to humans. <a href=\"https:\/\/investigations.peta.org\/dog-beagle-breeding-mill-envigo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fIpkY7mLtQ4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETA: A 2021 PETA undercover investigation found 5,000 beagle dogs and puppies intensively confined to small, barren kennels and cages 24\/7 at a massive breeding mill in Cumberland, Virginia. During the course of the investigation, the mill was owned and operated by Envigo. 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