Monday, February 6, 2012

liberating the 'spanish 40'...

while waiting for the estate agent - the "assistant relationship executive" actually (don't you just love the titles they come up with!?!!) - to arrive for a property inspection, i thought i'd share a video of the 4th rescue of arme's beagle freedom project...  

"On November 23, 2011, ARME's Beagle Freedom Project rescued 40 beagles from a laboratory in Spain where some had spent their entire lives. Others had come from other labs to the lab in Spain, only to be tested on in there. When we heard the lab was closing and the dogs would be killed, we stepped in and rescued them by flying them to Los Angeles, CA, to BFP Headquarters."



you may need some tissues handy - i did - but they'll be tears of joy you'll shed for these beautiful beagles, finally released from their imprisonment and torture... 

now i'm just going to ponder the prospect of another rent rise (far out, it was only 8 months ago the rent rose by $30 per week - surely they wouldn't put it up again so soon, would they??!!)...


4 comments:

parlance said...

I watched it! The surprising thing is that they looked okay. I wonder what they had endured.

Was it you who posted another one a while ago showing some beagles taking their first tentative steps out of a cage? It was so sad.

What has become of the human race that we have forgotten that we are only one of many species? How can we do the things we do? What must it be like to work in a laboratory that tests drugs on animals?

I reminds me that I wondered once what it must be like to work in an abattoir.

proud womon said...

hi parlance... guess it's "the luck of the draw" as to which lab they end up in and what experimentation they're involved in... and who knows the psychological scars over time...

yes, i posted that one a few months back... the 'spanish 40' may have already experienced the world outside their cages for a brief moment before their arrival into arme's caring volunteers...

many years ago i made myself walk through an abattoir, and a battery farm - horrific experiences... unfortunately we're a society desensitized to the pain and suffering of non-human animals - perhaps these places should be on every school's educational excursion lists because in seeing, you can never unsee...

Edinburgh Flats said...

Thank yoi for sharing this post

proud womon said...

and thank you 'edinburgh flats' for reading it...