About 1,000 animal welfare activists attempted to breach Ridglan Farms, a Wisconsin beagle breeding facility, on Saturday; police deployed rubber bullets and pepper spray, arresting multiple protesters including the leader of the Coalition to Save the Ridglan Dogs. This was the second raid attempt in two months at the facility, where deputies said some protesters violently tried to breach barricades while the facility houses an estimated 2,000 beagles. The facility denies animal mistreatment allegations but agreed last October to surrender its state breeding license by July 1 as part of a settlement. The broader context — that Ridglan has been accused of abuse by animal welfare groups but maintains its innocence while regulators reached a compromise solution — frames this as an escalating conflict between activists seeking immediate animal removal and legal processes moving toward facility closure.