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- Big Dog Ranch Rescue and Center for a Humane Economy signed a deal to buy 1,500 beagles from Ridgelan Farms.
- Police used tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray on about 1,000 activists on April 18, leading to 29 arrests and a federal lawsuit alleging unnecessary force.
- Ridgelan Farms agreed in October to surrender its state breeding license by July 1 after a prosecutor found its eye-procedure practices violated veterinary standards.
