The 91 beagles rescued by Anderson Humane from a breeding facility in Virginia were picked up by their foster families Tuesday morning in South Elgin. (Rick West | Staff Photographer)
Ninety-one beagles that had been bred for medical research in Virginia got a new lease on life when they were introduced to new foster families Tuesday in South Elgin.
“They haven’t been on this earth very long,” Anderson Humane CEO Beth Foster told the foster families Tuesday morning. “But the whole time, it’s been scary, and people have not always been very good to them.
“This is the beginning of their new life,” she said.
Roughly 4,000 beagles were rescued in late July by the Humane Society of the United States from Envigo, a breeding facility in Virginia. A federal judge had recently approved the rescue after U.S. Department of Agriculture officials found dozens of federal regulation violations that resulted in dogs being ill, injured and underfed, and in some cases, their death.
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