What is Omelette’s Promise?
Omelette, a beagle rescued from Ridglan Farms, was found dead in a canal in Florida. It is believed that he was tragically killed by an alligator after he went missing from his new family’s Boynton Beach home. He had just felt the sun on his face and the grass beneath his paws for the first time. He was finally in a loving home where he could decompress and learn how to “be a dog.” Now, he’s already gone. We refuse to allow him to be forgotten, and we must ensure that this never, ever happens again.[1]
We worked tirelessly, some for nearly a decade, to free these sweet beagles from captivity and biomedical experimentation. Many of us were tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, and shot with rubber-coated steel bullets as we attempted to free them ourselves after years of inaction by authorities. We love every single one of these precious dogs, and we continue to fight for the approximately 500 remaining at Ridglan Farms, the 15,000 or more at Marshall BioResources, and all of the dogs trapped in university labs and contract research organizations in the United States.
We don’t hold any ill will towards Omelette’s adopters, but we must insist that this kind of easily preventable tragedy never occurs again. That is why we are asking every rescue organization, shelter, and adopter of a Ridglan Farms beagle — or any dog from a research laboratory, breeding facility, or other traumatic setting — to sign Omelette’s Promise.