Beagle Brutality Sets Off Brazil

Brazilian taxpayers might be mad about government services. They might protest oil-field auctions and resent overspending on soccer stadiums for the 2014 World Cup. But nothing angers them quite like mistreated dogs.

This latest example of Brazilian outrage took place at roughly 2 a.m. on Oct. 18, when a group of about 100 animal-rights activists broke into the Instituto Royal -- a pharmaceutical testing lab in Sao Roque, about 40 miles to the west of Sao Paulo -- to rescue 178 beagles. Photos and videofootage taken by O Globo's TV TEM channel inside the lab during the raid showed dogs with portions of their backs shaved, as well as what appeared to be a frozen beagle's body.