{"id":780353,"date":"2026-01-21T08:42:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=780353"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:09:46","slug":"ridglan-farms-lawsuit-against-animal-rights-activists-is-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=780353","title":{"rendered":"Dane4Dogs: Ridglan Farm\u2019s lawsuit against animal rights activists is dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><em>A Wisconsin Dane County judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by embattled beagle breeder Ridglan Farms against an advocacy group that accused it of abusing animals. The breeder cited actions by animal rights group Dane4Dogs, including an &#8216;open rescue&#8217; effort, and alleged that the former employee gave false testimony leading to Ridglan&#8217;s facility being investigated. In an order dismissing Ridglan&#8217;s suit, the judge held that Dane4Dogs&#8217; actions were protected free speech, citing decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEOS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lDHkt_3D5AU?si=qh7CCXa6I4qGzkH2\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-3uj6iroCww?si=nEYXs9RSJg5mlw0m\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>SOURCE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dane4dogs.org\/ridglan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dane4Dogs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wisconsin Dane County judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by embattled beagle breeder Ridglan Farms against an advocacy group that accused it of abusing animals. The breeder cited actions by animal rights group Dane4Dogs, including an &#8216;open rescue&#8217; effort, and alleged that the former employee gave false testimony leading to Ridglan&#8217;s facility being investigated. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":780359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,20,23,24,25],"tags":[26,27,29,30,31,35],"class_list":["post-780353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-justice","category-rights","category-science","category-welfare","tag-compassion","tag-cruelty","tag-experimentation","tag-exploitation","tag-farming","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780353"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780360,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780353\/revisions\/780360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/780359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}