Beagle rescued from research facility finds new home on Long Island

Mandu, a 9-week-old beagle, was adopted by a pair on Lengthy Island.
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One of many 4,000 beagle puppies rescued from deplorable dwelling circumstances at a analysis facility in Virginia final month has discovered her ceaselessly dwelling with a newlywed couple on Lengthy Island.

Mandu, a 9-week-old beagle, has moved in with nurse Leigh Cohen Martz in Lengthy Seaside after the pup was rescued from the Envigo breeding and analysis facility in Cumberland in one of many largest canine rescue efforts in US historical past.

The puppies had been to be bought to be used in pharmaceutical and biotech analysis. However since their rescue, which drew nationwide consideration, they've been shipped to animal shelters throughout the nation for adoption.

Mandu was rescued together with 4,000 different beagles from a Virginia analysis facility.

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One seven-month-old beagle, Mamma Mia, was adopted by royals Prince Harry and Meghan Markle after Markle learn in regards to the Envigo lab and wished to assist out.

“I used to be really strolling Mandu on our morning stroll and a bunch of our neighbors had been speaking about Meghan and Harry rescuing a pet from the Envigo lab and we had been all sort of laughing as a result of so is Mandu,” Martz informed CBS. 

Mandu’s mom gave start to a litter of six the day after she was rescued from the lab, the outlet reported.

On the facility, investigators found malnourished, sick and injured beagles, in keeping with a federal grievance. The canines had been locked in cages the place feces and meals waste piled up. Greater than 300 puppies died on the facility between January and July of final yr, officers mentioned.

“She doesn’t really understand how fortunate she is,” mentioned Martz. “She would have been bought for experiments.” 

Martz, who's not too long ago married to her husband Jessie, mentioned it was an emotional expertise driving hours to select up the latest member of their household.

“I used to be crying randomly simply out of the joy,” she mentioned. [Mandu was] wrapped in a child’s blanket from the hospital, but it surely had her mother’s scent on it and her litter’s scent. Jessie and I acquired actually emotional.” 

The canine’s identify is private and particular as effectively.

“My grandmother is from Korea and Mandu is a Korean dumpling. So we name her our little dumpling,” mentioned Martz.