Landing Today at LAX: 40 Adorable Beagles!

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Travelers braving the sky today may catch a glimpse of an unusual group of passengers. The Studio City-based Beagle Freedom Project has successfully rescued 40 beagles from a lab in Spain and is currently flying them to safety in Los Angeles.

The organization tweeted and posted on their Facebook wall earlier this morning, "Our 40 rescued lab beagles from Spain are in the air on their way home to freedom!!" Some sources cite the number of rescued dogs as 41, but the actual total is 40.

Since December 2010, The Beagle Freedom Project has taken on a mission to rescue and find homes for beagles used in laboratory research. The project's site explains that beagles are the most popular breed for lab use due to their "friendly, docile, trusting, forgiving, people-pleasing personalities." That sounds about right. Let's find the sweetest breed of dogs and force them into lives of torture and neglect.

The project works with university and other research facilities to legally remove and transport the canines to loving homes. The beagles en route to LAX today were rescued in collaboration with the Little Pod Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to helping animals in the Orihuela Costa region of Spain.

Having spent their entire lives confined to a testing laboratory, the dogs are flying high and in need of foster and adoption parents. Interested? Apply via the the Beagle Freedom Project website. And if you do adopt, please send us photos.

We know what we're adding to our lists to Santa: one happy beagle, please.

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By Lauren Lloyd in News on November 23, 2011 11:00 AM 0 Comments

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The_Truth_Seeker

We need to publicize the names of all those "scientists" and other workers who allowed this to go on so long, so that they may be PUBLICLY SHAMED for the rest of their miserable lives!! These people are not human, they are MONSTERS! What they did was clearly unethical (as judged by society) , so they need be shamed forever (if they can't be prosecuted). Let them spend the rest of their lives in a cage!!

The law cannot protect someone from being publicly shamed for what they have willingly done but society does not condone!

We need those names publicized, so everyone in their city, or village, knows who these people are and can remind them of what they did, every day!!

Doran

We had a beagle as a family pet and I've got to second Andrew's comment about them being docile. Maybe they're docile when they aren't tearing something up, or barking at neighbors, or barking at cats, or just barking because they like to bark. Still, great dog.

galaxytime

i hope they have happy little lives!

Andrew Nethery

funny because i grew up with a beagle and have to say that this is quite a mischaracterization. They are extremely intelligent and because of this are not docile, rather conniving and even vindictive at times. Ours was known to pee on someones bed if that person yelled at her! That said, beagles are cute and awesome!