SUPPORT THE BEAGLE FREEDOM BILL!
BFP’s life-saving legislative effort is enacting laws which ensure dogs and cats used for testing and experimentation get every opportunity to have a life after 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 they can be placed up for public adoption.

The law is needed! No federal or state laws or regulations address what happens to animals when the testing ends. In the US, more than 60,000 dogs and nearly 20,000 cats are being used for animal experimentation to test cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, household products and for other scientific curiosities. Nearly 96% of the dogs used are beagles, mainly because of their friendly, docile, and submissive nature.
The industry standard practice is to euthanize these 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 these animals a home.
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. In 2022, Beagle Freedom Project is supporting similar bills in Colorado, Indiana, New Jersey, Texas, and Wisconsin. If you live in one of these states please sign the petition, email, write, and call your representatives or personally lobby at the capitol. Also, contact your representatives in Congress and tell them you want the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to implement a Research Animal Adoption Policy for all publicly funded animal experimentation.

Take Action!
For this law to pass your political representatives need to hear from you. The more direct and personal – the more effective. Please send an email to your representative, give them a call, and lobby in person!