Story out of Columbia, Missouri:
A quartet of professors at the University of Missouri-Columbia purposefully blinded six beagles — and then killed them after the research they were conducting failed to heal their wounded corneas.
That's according to a paper published in the 2016 Journal of Veterinary Opthamology, which details the ineffective treatment and the dogs' untimely end. The pups were just nine to twelve months at the time they endured the experiment and then were killed.
Dan Kolde is a St. Louis-based attorney for the Beagle Freedom Project, which seeks to rescue and protect the dogs, who are frequently used in scientific research. Even beyond his horror at the study, he says he's horrified that the university failed to work with his group to rehome the dogs.
"We would have found them homes," he says. "The Beagle Freedom Project would have happily taken these dogs."
Kolde had previously filed a lawsuit against Mizzou on behalf of the Beagle Freedom Project, seeking records relating to the university's care of beagles. The non-profit sought basic records that Mizzou is required by law to maintain. Yet the university sought to charge it $82,222 — as much as $7 a page.
The suit is still pending. Cont.
Story from - Riverfront Times
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