A Beagle Deemed Too ‘Wiggly’ for Experiments Liberated from Laboratory, Adopted by PETA Rescuers
Home at last! A new PETA video released shows how a beagle named Temple has a new leash on life with a loving adoptive family after being deemed “too wiggly” to experiment on and rescued from a squalid drug-testing laboratory that subjects dogs, cats, and other animals to antiquated experiments.
For two years, Temple languished in a barren concrete pen and windowless cell 24 hours a day, seven days a week at Colorado’s Red Beast Enterprises, also known as High Quality Research. There, experimenters crudely cut into her and other beagles’ vocal cords, without providing any post-operative pain relief, simply to make their cries less “shrill.”
During a six-month PETA undercover investigation into the laboratory, the president, who deemed Temple too “wiggly and jumpy” to experiment on, agreed to release her to PETA’s investigator. PETA staff members flew to Colorado and drove Temple—who had never set paw outdoors before—35 hours through a severe winter storm back to PETA’s shelter in Norfolk, Virginia. There, one of the drivers, Katherine Sullivan Paden, and her husband, fellow PETA staff member Daniel Sullivan Paden, adopted her and named her in honor of the world-renowned animal welfare expert Dr. Temple Grandin.
Due to the trauma and terror Temple experienced at Red Beast Enterprises, it took her a while to warm up to her new life. But now, she’s enjoying a safe, cozy home with her family, including four other PETA-rescued animals: cats Helen, Ezekiel, and Grappa and beagle mix Copper. As the video reveals, for the first time in her life, Temple now has a soft, warm bed to sleep on, a dog friend and toys to play with, walks on the beach to enjoy, and a family to snuggle.
“I’m thankful that we’re the ones she picked to spend the rest of her life with,” Daniel shares in PETA’s video.
Katherine adds, “Just knowing that she will never be used or abused for an experiment or anything else ever again brings us a lot of joy, and we’re so thankful.”
As a result of PETA’s investigation, Red Beast Enterprises was cited for more than 200 alleged violations of 11 federal animal welfare regulations—but nearly 150 kittens, cats, and dogs are still suffering there. PETA is rallying its members and supporters to help spare more animals the suffering that Temple endured by contacting Colorado State University and urging it to reconsider its faculty’s ties to the laboratory.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on or abuse in any other way”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness.