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Nearly 4,000 beagles were rescued after the Department of Justice alleged the Envigo facility in Virginia violated the Animal Welfare Act.

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In what's thought to be one of the biggest dog rescue efforts in the U.S., nearly 4,000 beagles are looking for forever homes after being saved from a Virginia facility that bred them to be sold to laboratories for drug experiments.

Animal rescue organization volunteers started moving the first batch of dogs late last month, the Humane Society of the United States reported. As of Tuesday, just over half of them had been removed, the non-profit reported on its website.

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