The Ridglan Buyers Campaign · 2026
1,500 beagles are out. ~500 are still in cages.
Ridglan Farms stays in business because research companies keep buying. We have a list — every buyer, every shipment, every contact. Pick one and write to them today.
Built on 272 Wisconsin DATCP shipment certificates (2023-03-27 → 2026-04-08) covering 5,433 dogs. Every record links to the source PDF.
Take action
Email every buyer in one go
Multi-recipient auto-emailer with personalization — opens one pre-filled email per buyer in your own mail client.
Phone, social, email scripts
Pre-written outreach scripts plus contact details (phone, email, decision-maker names, IACUC contacts) for every known buyer.
Sign the petition
Stand with the campaign to free Ridglan's remaining beagles and end interstate sales to research.
The records
Every shipment is in here, with the source PDF one click away.
The campaign rests on a complete public-records archive of every interstate beagle shipment from Ridglan Farms, extracted from Wisconsin DATCP Certificates of Veterinary Inspection.
The case against Ridglan
311 DATCP violations · suspended vet license · devocalization testimony · media coverage.
Every buyer
61 distinct destinations · filter by period · monthly timelines per buyer.
Every shipment
272 records · search by buyer / state / date · export CSV / XLSX / PDF.
Methodology
What this data is, what it can and can't prove, update cadence, how to flag errors.
Recent activity
Last 6 months
2025-10-07 → 2026-04-08
across 20 shipments to 9 distinct buyers
2026 year-to-date
2026-01-01 → 2026-04-08
across 9 shipments to 4 distinct buyers
Around April 19, 2026 (±30 days)
2026-03-20 → 2026-05-19
across 4 shipments to 2 distinct buyers
Windows reflect shipping dates declared on the source CVI. Dog counts sum the total_animals field; some CVIs leave it blank, so totals are a lower bound.
Last 12 months
Top buyers · most recent year
Buyers who took the most dogs in the past 365 days. Use the tabs on the full Buyers page to switch to 6 months / 90 days / 30 days / 2026 YTD / the April action window / all time.
| # | Buyer | State | Shipments | Dogs | Largest single | Last shipment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | T.R.S. LAB | GA | 12 | 224 | 44 | 2025-11-24 |
| 2 | Elanco Animal Health | AL | 5 | 160 | 40 | 2026-03-27 |
| 3 | Midwest Veterinary Services (MVS), Inc. | NE | 5 | 152 | 36 | 2026-03-17 |
| 4 | IIT RESEARCH INSTITUTE | IL | 6 | 128 | 46 | 2025-11-10 |
| 5 | CLINVET | NY | 2 | 82 | 41 | 2026-04-08 |
| 6 | MERCK ANIMAL HEALTH | NE | 3 | 75 | 30 | 2025-07-21 |
| 7 | MOUNTAIN WEST RESEARCH | CO | 2 | 68 | 44 | 2025-09-22 |
| 8 | Boehringer Ingelheim-Merial | GA | 3 | 48 | 30 | 2026-03-09 |