After a life of confinement and torturous experimentation, most laboratory animals, such as the beagles within the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIAID), are euthanized, however, some rescue organizations have stepped in to show them a life outside of a cage. If the dogs are fortunate enough to be rescued, they experience a rebirth into a kinder and more spacious world the dogs greet with distrust. “I call them newborns in adult bodies,” Shannon Keith, president and founder of the California-based non-profit Beagle Freedom Project (BFP), told The Epoch Times.  “They don’t know anything.” They don’t know what treats or toys are, she said, and the outdoors is an alien world to them. Once the beagles are rescued, they go into a foster-based system, never having to be housed in a facility again, but instead a home, where they learn to be a dog for the first time. “Some of …