BLUE MOUNDS, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Around 100 people gathered outside Ridglan Farms Saturday, May 30, to protest the facility and draw attention to the issues they feel the facility still has.

The protest outside Ridglan Farms had a goal.

Protesters want the remaining 650 beagles still in the facility’s possession to be released, and they hope this movement, which has caught the attention of the nation, will lead to laws that protect dogs from animal testing in the future.

Protesters chanted, “Shut down Ridglan Farms” and “There is no excuse for animal abuse.”

It was a call to save the remaining beagles not only at Ridglan but dogs that are in testing facilities across the country. It was also a message to state officials that testers believed have done too little.

“Ridglan can keep selling them till July 1st to research facilities and we don’t want that to happen they have been through enough here. And we also are worried that they could be euthanized come July 1st,” Kim Kreueger, the director of legislative affairs at Dane4Dogs, said.

Ridglan will lose its dog-selling license on July 1st. But according to Dane4Dogs, it will still have its research license, which allows it to continue to breed dogs for its own research in-house.

“We want there to be legislation that protects these dogs from anything like Ridglan Farms from happening again. And I want an end to experimentation on dogs,” Kreueger said.

A few of the Ridglan Farms beagles were at the protest on Saturday, while others shared stories of dogs they have adopted from other facilities, like Dawn Eberhardt, who adopted Gracie. She held a picture of her in her hand as protested.

“She was actually born at Marshall BioResources in New York State we could tell by the tattoo, and we have witnessed a lot of trauma with her,” Dawn Eberhardt, a protester, said.

She wants local officials to hold Ridglan Farms accountable and make sure the research facility is held accountable. Ridglan Farms, though, maintains it has done nothing wrong and denies the allegations against it. Protesters, though, believe the evidence against the facility is overwhelming.

“These dogs have really suffered, and I don’t understand why we are allowing them to walk away from this. I feel like there should be charges against them,” Eberhardt said.

These protesters say they have written lawmakers in Wisconsin and across the nation in hopes that the dogs remaining at Ridglan Farms will be released.

Protests also took place in North Rose, NY, Worcester, MA, Cleveland, OH, Seattle, WA, and Nashville, TN.

Those involved hope the nationwide protest will catch the attention of lawmakers.

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