SUPPORT THE BEAGLE FREEDOM BILL!
BFP’s life-saving legislative efforts involve enacting laws which ensure dogs and cats used for testing and experimentation in laboratories receive the opportunity to have a real life after the labs and get adopted into loving homes.

This is a simple, common-sense, and compassionate proposal to help rescue dogs and cats from tax-payer funded research laboratories. The legislation facilitates a relationship between laboratories that use dogs and cats for research purposes and registered non-profit animal rescue organizations, so that when the animals are no longer needed for testing, they can be placed up for public adoption.

This law is needed! No federal or state laws (except for those states who have passed a Beagle Freedom bill!) or regulations address what happens to animals when the testing ends. In the US, approximately 43,000 dogs and over 12,000 cats are being used for animal experimentation to test cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, household products and for other scientific curiosities. Nearly 95% of the dogs used are beagles, mainly because of their friendly, docile, and submissive nature. The industry standard practice is to euthanize the animals after the experiments are over. The only opportunity for a post-laboratory life for these animals is completely dependent on the discretion of research workers to volunteer their time to try to find homes for them. After all these animals have endured for human products, pharmaceuticals, and academic curiosities, they deserve a chance at a real life!

In 2014 Minnesota became the first state to pass and successfully implement the Beagle Freedom Bill. Since then, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Washington, Oregon, and Virginia have all passed similar laws. Currently, Beagle Freedom Project is supporting similar bills in Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, and Wisconsin. If you live in one of these states, please support our efforts by signing the petition, emailing, writing, calling your representatives, or even personally lobby at your state’s capitol. Please also contact your representatives in Congress and tell them you want the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to require the implementation of Research Animal Adoption Policies for all publicly funded animal experimentation.