{"id":72110,"date":"2026-04-18T20:59:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/police-use-gas-and-rubber-bullets-on-activists-at-beagle-facility-in-wisconsin\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T20:59:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:59:47","slug":"police-use-gas-and-rubber-bullets-on-activists-at-beagle-facility-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/police-use-gas-and-rubber-bullets-on-activists-at-beagle-facility-in-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Police use gas and rubber bullets on activists at beagle facility in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement rebuffs protesters at breeding and biomedical research farm amid attempt to remove dogs<\/p>\n<p>A chaotic scene unfolded Saturday at a beagle breeding and biomedical research facility in Wisconsin as about 1,000 animal rights activists seeking to breach the property were rebuffed with rubber bullets and pepper spray by law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>It was the latest attempt by protesters to take beagles from the Ridglan Farms facility in Blue Mounds, a small town about 25 miles (4okm) south-west of Madison. In a March raid, activists removed 13 dogs from the facility. The Dane county sheriff\u2019s office has since referred charges for burglary and trespassing, among others, to the local district attorney\u2019s office against 62 people related to that incident.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/18\/wisconsin-animal-activists-beagles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement rebuffs protesters at breeding and biomedical research farm amid attempt to remove dogs A chaotic scene unfolded Saturday at a beagle breeding and biomedical research facility in Wisconsin as about 1,000 animal rights activists seeking to breach the property were rebuffed with rubber bullets and pepper spray by law enforcement. It was the &#8230; <a title=\"Police use gas and rubber bullets on activists at beagle facility in Wisconsin\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/police-use-gas-and-rubber-bullets-on-activists-at-beagle-facility-in-wisconsin\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Police use gas and rubber bullets on activists at beagle facility in Wisconsin\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}