Battery Beagles – It’s Barbaric

Hundreds of dogs at Harlan Laboratories in Wyton, Cambridgeshire, Britain’s biggest beagle ‘farm’, spend just 20 minutes a week outside their small cages.
The dogs are kept in pens with little daylight before being sold for experiments for around £2000 each, after which most are killed.
Some cages measure two by three metres and are used to house two large dogs or eight puppies.
The few animals not sold are used as breeders or donors and have their blood drained for medical use.
Harlan Laboratories is exempt from animal welfare law as it complies with a Government Home Office code of practise.
Luke Steele of the National Anti-Vivisection Alliance said: “They are like battery beagles. It is completely barbaric.”