@TomTiffanyWI Where do you stand on ineffective animal testing that exploits animals to no benefit? The Ridglan Farms beagles are neglected and abused by performing surgeries like debarking and cherry eye removal with NO anesthesia or pain meds, cysts on feet from living on a cage floor.
@RepTiffany Where do you stand on ineffective animal testing that exploits animals to no benefit? The Ridglan Farms beagles are neglected and abused by performing surgeries like debarking and cherry eye removal with NO anesthesia or pain meds, cysts on feet from living on a cage floor!
The Ridglan Farms beagle scandal is not going away.
“Our taxpayer dollars are subsidizing the beagle abuse that’s happening in Ridglan.”
The horror that these Ridglan puppies are still going through in Fauci-funded labs will shock you:
“They buy these puppies.”
“They lock them in a lab.”
“They shave their fur off.”
“They glue capsules full of mutant ticks to their bare skin, and let them bite them to infect them with diseases to test experimental vaccines and drugs.”
And these are not just old projects.
Under RFK Jr., the NIH has renewed and extended Fauci’s old projects and given out new dog testing grants that will last another 5 years.
WCW Senior VP Justin Goodman revealed that NIH officials actually came to us last year to ask for a “list of projects to prioritize cutting.”
Then, they completely disregarded our list, and approved new funding for the projects we exposed.
Goodman: “I’ve met with Jay Bhattacharya personally.”
“One of the top [projects] on that list was a series of grants that Fauci personally signed off on to fund experiments on beagle puppies purchased from Ridglan.”
“Secretary Kennedy and his staff have the ability to cut that funding overnight.”
Citing our investigations, Senator Rand Paul criticized the NIH last year for renewing the funding for these Fauci-approved tests on Ridglan beagles.
All they have to do is cut that funding, and this scandal will also go away overnight.
Why are they refusing to do anything about this?
@JustinRGoodman@RyanSchmelzFOX@SenRandPaul
Join me in calling on our legislators to NO to provisions that would wipe out animal cruelty laws in the Farm Bill 2.0! https://t.co/GFrmnxgH1j via @TheHumaneLeague
After years of pressure, breeding beagles for experimentation at Ridglan Farms is coming to an end—but the dogs still trapped inside are not safe yet. Email the Governor to make sure that the dogs are released to reputable shelters and rescue organizations: [email protected] https://t.co/lPnu2ZjJIS
2⃣— USDA, people need to go to USDA APHIS Animal Care is the APHIS program that handles Animal Welfare Act inspections, compliance, and enforcement.
APHIS also has a public Animal Care Search Tool where people can pull inspection reports, enforcement actions, and annual reports, and if a record is not there, APHIS tells people to use FOIA.
The Animal Care complaints team’s public contact is [email protected], phone 970-494-7478, fax 970-494-7461, mailing address 2150 Centre Ave., Bldg. B, Mailstop 3W11, Fort Collins, CO 80526.
APHIS’s FOIA page says requests can be submitted online, and the APHIS FOIA Office help number is 301-851-4102.
RIDGLAN FARMS—A breakdown of the problem, and what YOU can do to make a difference.
There are three parts to this atrocity — and most people are only focused on the first one.
1. Breeder: Ridglan
2. Regulator: USDA
3. Buyers: Labs / Universities
1. Ridglan — the breeder
Ridglan is forced to stop selling dogs in July, but that does NOT mean they are forced to fully shutdown, and it does NOT mean the dogs are automatically safe.
Where are the ~2,000 dogs going? Who is taking them? Is there a written, documented plan? Are dogs still being sold before July?
🔴If you want to do something, contact:
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and the Wisconsin Attorney General’s office.
Ask for the plan in writing. Ask what enforcement looks like if the terms aren’t followed.
2. USDA — the federal regulator
Ridglan still has a FEDERAL license through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). That’s why this doesn't end in July.
USDA APHIS Animal Care — handles inspections and enforcement under the Animal Welfare Act. (see thread for details)
🔴Here’s what to actually do:
Go to the USDA Animal Care Public Search Tool and pull every inspection report, annual report, and enforcement record for Ridglan.
If anything is missing, file a FOIA request with APHIS and ask for:
– inspection reports
– photos and videos
– compliance letters
– complaint records
– enforcement actions
– and any written plan for where these dogs are going
Ask USDA directly: What would trigger restriction or revocation of this facility’s license? What happens after July?
That is what determines whether this abuse actually stops or just shifts.
3. The BUYERS — labs, universities, pharma
This is the part almost no one is talking about enough.
📢WHO IS BUYING THESE DOGS AND TESTING ON THEM?
Ridglan exists because someone is BUYING.
➡️This is supply and demand.⬅️
If buyers stop buying, then breeders like Ridglan cease to exist.
I found records compiled by Rise for Animals and The Marty Project and cross-checked parts of the data against NIH grants, institutional disclosures, and USDA inspection reports. See the attached list.
Almost 1/3 of the list are major universities —the same places we send our kids, donate to, and support publicly.
So if people want to direct their energy somewhere that actually matters, start asking those institutions:
Do you use dogs in research?
Do you source from Ridglan or breeders like them?
Which grants are funding this work?
What is your plan to stop?
Contact:
– Office of Research
– IACUC (animal care & use committee)
– compliance/ethics offices
– and leadership
1⃣Ridglan is one part of the problem.
2⃣USDA is one part of the problem.
3⃣The buyers are one part of the problem.
Most people are only yelling at the first one.
If we actually want this to change, we have to go after all three — not just the one that’s getting the most attention online.
In my district, a beagle breeding facility called Ridglan Farms has hundreds of code violations, including serious harm to the health of the dogs, yet the NIH is still giving funding to groups that use the beagles from this facility.
Today, I urged Secretary Kennedy to stop this practice.
“Dear @POTUS,
As a rescued laboratory dog, I’m asking you to please issue an Executive Order, to action the immediate rescue of 2,000 Beagles, incarcerated at the notorious Ridglan Farms, Dane County, Wisconsin.
In 2025, Dane County Circuit Court Judge, Rhonda Lanford, found Ridglan Farms GUILTY of violating Wisconsin’s animal cruelty laws, on many accounts, but Dane County’s District Attorney, Ismael Ozanne, is still allowing these criminals to continue.
Please help me save my Beagle friends from this terrible situation.
Thankfully, the head of the FDA, @DrMakaryFDA, stated only last week that experiments on dogs, and other animals, have a *90% FAILURE RATE* when applied to humans. That’s because animals are treated by veterinarians, not human medical doctors !! Us animals have *very* different biologies from humans.
You can watch @DrMakaryFDA’s statement, on the 90% failure of animal-tested drugs, here: https://t.co/NlaOtwvpZm
I know that you love dogs. Please help my friends escape the horrors at Ridglan Farms, quickly.
With very loud wooooooofs!”
@BetsyAmbassador 🐾❤️
@WhiteHouse
FURTHER READING
Former State Prosector’s recent article: https://t.co/kv9jWfY5tB
@waynehhsiung
New chilling footage of the puppy dragged back by the police to be tortured at Ridglan Farms.
The police falsely claimed Ridglan is exempt from all cruelty laws. At any moment, this pup could die in an illegal procedure or experiment. He needs our help.
Join us on April 19.
Filmed by Be Here Now Films.
🙏 Lord, I pray for all animals suffering at the hands of humans, and the pups at Rigdlan Farms that we plan to save. Please grant them your peace and protect them from the evils of this world.
🙏 Lord, please guide their rescuers and help them. Amen.
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