A beagle came into my life in 2022, weighing just 13 pounds, a trembling 1 year-old. Branded in her ears was “CHM CCJ” — not a name, but an inventory number. Now called Phoebe, she spent her first year as inventory at Virginia’s Envigo facility, one of 4,000 beagles rescued when it was shut down.

When I met her, the damage was heartbreaking. She had never felt grass, couldn’t drink from a bowl, and took weeks to find her howl. Hoodies and baseball hats still trigger memories we’ll never understand. She struggled to believe people could love her without wanting harm.

Pennsylvania can say enough through the bipartisan “Beagle Bill” (SB 381). It would end state funding for painful experiments on dogs while requiring survivors be offered for adoption rather than automatic euthanasia.

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