About this project
Why this archive exists
Approximately 500 beagles remain at Ridglan Farms, Inc., a USDA-licensed facility at 10489 W. Blue Mounds Road in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin. They are expected to be sold to research-related buyers. This site exists to make it harder for those sales to happen quietly.
Wisconsin already publishes the trail. Every time Ridglan ships dogs across a state line, federal regulations require a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection — a one-page form naming the buyer, the date, the destination, the number and ages of the animals, and the issuing veterinarian. Wisconsin's Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection publishes every one of those certificates on its public records page.
What was missing was an aggregated, searchable view. This archive compiles three years of Ridglan-origin CVIs into a single, sortable, exportable index so any journalist, attorney, advocate, or regulator can see — at a glance — who has bought these dogs in the past, and therefore where the remaining 500 are most likely headed.
How to use it
- Take action — three pre-written outreach scripts (phone / social / email) and a directory of contact info for every known Ridglan buyer. Includes a multi-buyer auto-emailer.
- The case— what's already been documented about Ridglan: 311 DATCP violations, suspended vet license, devocalization testimony, and major-outlet coverage.
- The Buyers page ranks every entity that has purchased dogs from Ridglan in this window. Recent and recurring buyers are the most likely future recipients.
- The Shipments page lets you search and filter the full 198-shipment ledger by buyer, state, date range, and headcount. Every page of results can be exported to CSV, XLSX, or PDF.
- Every certificate number is a direct link to the original PDF on cvicentral.com — the primary-source record published by Wisconsin.
Verifiability
Every assertion on this site is derived from a specific CVI; click any certificate number to see the source. Where the extraction pipeline produced low-confidence or cross-model-disagreement results, the row is flagged in pale amber on the shipments table. The full extraction methodology — including the models, prompts, and provenance schema — is documented at /methodology.
Attribution
This archive — the DATCP data extraction, the pipeline, the public site — is the work of Dane4Dogs. The campaign directory and outreach scripts surfaced on /take-action and /the-case are compiled by Rise for Animals and The Marty Project, mirrored here with permission.
Contact
Errors, omissions, or new monthly batches to ingest — reach Dane4Dogs at hello@dane4dogs.org.