End the breeding of dogs and cats for experimentation.
Dane4Dogs is a grassroots organization in Dane County, Wisconsin. Our mission is to end the breeding, sale, and use of dogs and cats for painful and distressing experimentation. We support modern scientific alternatives.
30 minutes from Madison, thousands of dogs live in stacked cages.
Only 30 minutes west of Madison, in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, there are thousands of dogs kept in stacked cages in windowless sheds, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Instead of becoming companions, they are repeatedly bred and their puppies are sold to labs across the country for experimentation, almost always ending in premature death.
Dane County experiments on more dogs than it adopts.
December 2023 USDA inspection records: 3,110 breeding dogs and 148 in active experimentation.
Across the entire Dane County Humane Society — fewer than the dogs caged at one breeding facility.
Dane4Dogs has helped pass dog and cat experimentation bans in seven cities — to our knowledge, the only ones in the country.
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Ridglan Farms agreed to shut down its breeding and selling operation.
After years of advocacy, Ridglan accepted a settlement requiring voluntary license relinquishment by July 1, 2026 to avoid criminal animal cruelty prosecution. The work isn't over — every dog there still needs to make it out alive.
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We're a small team of volunteers, neighbors, and advocates. Every donation funds the organizing, the legal work, and the public education that brought this campaign to where it is today.