Ridglan Farms beagles: Last dogs released

For the first time in 60 years, the cages at Ridgeland Farms are empty. The last 155 beagles left the Dane County facility this morning. Fox 6 investigator Brian Paulson was there to greet them at a private farm nearby. He's in our newsroom now with the latest. Brian, yeah, Ted and Christina. Next month, Ridgeland Farms would have completed 60 years of breeding and selling beagles for scientific research instead a series of criminal and regulatory investigations left them little choice but to sell the remaining dogs to animal rescuers. Today, Florida's Big Dog Ranch rescue removed another 14. Adult dogs and 141 puppies, many of them as young as just three or four months old. That brings the total number of rescued beagles now to more than 2100 since May 1st and once again they were taken for medical screenings and their first chance to touch grass at a group of small private farms. In Marshall, Wisconsin, one of them owned by Jennifer Kobenstein. It's amazing to know the last beagles out to and to know that Ridgeland Farms will never hurt another dog again makes every bit of this worth every second of it. I've spent all of my PTO, all of my spare time working on this, and I would do it 100 times over again for that little old mom that walked out the door because she deserves freedom and now she's free. According to the executive director of Big Dog Ranch Rescue, Ridgeland Farms is now out of business. For good, but animal rights activists say their fight against animal testing is far from over. Some are now focused on a smaller breeding facility in Spring Green, Wisconsin Tri Valley Resources, which has about 150 coonhounds also bred for research, but activists across the country are turning their attention to Marshall Bio Resources in New York, the nation's largest beagle breeding farm. It is eight times larger than Ridgeland Farms in the newsroom. Brian Poulsen Fox 6 investigators Brian. We know there were charges against some of those activists in this Ridgeland Farms case. Is that changing the way these activists are going about these other situations that they are working towards? It's not clear if it changes the way they're going about it, although I don't see or haven't seen any mention of an open rescue attempt at Marshall Bio Resources. They are instead organizing a massive march across the state of New York in September that will end at Marshall Bio Resources. They are certainly continuing the efforts to try to draw attention to that facility. Alright, Brian Poulsen from the newsroom. Thanks so much.