Overview
- Organizers say a large crowd will gather Sunday at Ridglan Farms in Blue Mounds to try to remove about 2,000 beagles from the facility.
- The Dane County sheriff says deputies will allow peaceful protest but will arrest people for trespassing, burglary, property damage, or obstruction if laws are broken.
- Ridglan Farms calls the plan a pre-announced break-in and warns the effort could cause up to $6 million in damages.
- After a March 15 action that removed about two dozen dogs, the sheriff referred about 70 charges against more than 60 people to prosecutors.
- Ridglan remains licensed and under a 2025 settlement must end outside sales of research-bred dogs by July 1, 2026, while a special prosecutor previously found some surgeries there violated state veterinary standards.