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This is a link post.Alexandra Paul carrying a beagle away from Ridglan Farms

I was released from Dane County jail this week where I was held for two nights for my participation in Sunday's mass rescue at Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin. I wrote post in jail and posted it on my Substack shortly after.

It is freezing in the rain, with bits of hail coming down on me. I am surrounded by police, accompanied by over twenty activists at Ridglan Farms, a notorious dog testing and breeding facility. The police tell us if we leave the facility, they won’t arrest us. We are not sure what to do.

Two days ago, I joined nearly a hundred activists in walking into the second largest dog breeding and research facility in the United States. We walked onto the property in broad daylight to rescue the animals inside. Ridglan Farms has been a site of public controversy for years for confining thousands of beagles for cruel experiments, including force feeding them commercial laundry detergent and surgically ripping out their eye glands without anesthesia. The abuses are so bad that a local court ordered them to be prosecuted for felony animal abuse.

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First published:
March 21st, 2026

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Fbi7bHo3PogFwvD3i/today-i-was-released-from-jail-for-rescuing-the-ridglan-dogs

Linkpost URL:
https://urbananimal.substack.com/p/today-i-was-released-from-jail-for

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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