2/3/05

We are getting a breeding beagle from Johns Hopkins medical research lab we are calling Beatrice. The doctor who's lab will use her puppies is driving her down to severn river vet next wednesday (2/9). Her puppies will die in the experiment. She would have been returned to the VA breeder to be resold to research labs but they now have a policy of not taking dogs back because of potential infections from non-vetted dogs.....so Hopkins called rescues today and I agreed to take Bea.
Mara
 

2/14-BEATRICE: We need to post Beatrice, female, 2 - 3 yrs, 18 pounds (i think...) I have the write up for Bea and Jim (sara's husband) should be sending pictures.
Sara gave me the hard copy of the write up so will send but Beatrice is outgoing and friendly, likes kids, does not like being crated. Is learning to go outside. She has spent her career as a breeding dog for a medical research laboratory (all her puppies have died in experiments). She would have been returned to the breeder to be resold to another research lab except the breeder has stopped taking the dogs back. We got lucky and she came to us.