Save the Beagles: Shut Down MBR Acres

MBR Acres breeds thousands of beagle puppies each year at its site in Cambridgeshire, selling them on for painful, outdated experiments. More reliable and ethical alternatives exist, but these dogs are still being tortured in the name of science.

This is the UK’s chance to be a global leader in modern, humane testing methods that save lives without cruelty. It’s time to shut down MBR Acres for good.

MBR Acres is a house of horrors. Behind its locked gates in Huntingdon, over 2,000 beagle puppies are bred every year, only to be used, abused, and killed in the name of “science.” You can help us end this forever.

Some puppies are bled and dissected on-site, their organs harvested. Others are shipped off for toxicology testing, where they suffer unimaginable pain - poisoned, force-fed chemicals, then killed.

But this doesn’t need to happen. MBR Acres does not need to kill puppies. Scientists have already created new testing methods that can replace these beagles today!

Here are the powerful, proven alternatives to animal testing:

  • Organ-on-a-chip technology
  • AI and advanced computer modelling
  • Human cell-based testing

These methods are more accurate, more ethical, and they don’t require animal cruelty.

This needless suffering is why in 2022, Animal Rising rescued 23 puppies from MBR Acres. This year, the 20 rescuers will be taken to court, pleading not guilty to “burglary.”  This is the year animal testing will be put on trial.

There are growing calls from the public to save these beagles and all animals from outdated, torturous experiments. And that is why we are calling for the Home Office to phase out animal testing, starting by immediately closing MBR Acres and advocating for investment into modern testing methods which are ethical and more reliable.

The UK has a chance to lead the world in modern, humane science by investing in cutting-edge alternatives like AI and organ-on-a-chip technology. It's time for the government to put our scientists, our economy, and our values first. By backing innovation instead of cruelty, we can protect the animals we love and spare countless lives, human and non-human alike.

Please join us in calling for the Home Office to safely rehome the beagles and shut down MBR Acres once and for all.

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  • Claire Dymock
    signed 2026-08-29 14:57:35 +0100
    Unfathomable & indefensible that we are STILL allowing the torture of beagles or ANY sentient beings – I think the ‘scientists’ must become addicted to zoosadism. Sack them all SHUT IT DOWN.
  • Steve Ades
    signed 2026-08-29 13:30:46 +0100
  • Janice Lawrence
    signed 2026-08-29 11:54:12 +0100
    Please shut down this hellhole
  • Ante Kristic
    signed 2026-08-29 06:47:28 +0100
  • Ashley Page
    signed 2026-08-28 20:57:41 +0100
    Can’t believe this is going on in the uk this day in age, there must an alternative to testing on a defenceless animal that deserves to be living in a family home that is going to care for it not in a laboratory
  • Emma Budgen
    signed 2026-08-28 20:35:28 +0100
    I’m this day and age this treatment of animals by the Uk is a disgrace . I feel ashamed to be British
  • elena vitli
    signed 2026-08-28 20:18:37 +0100
    STOP ALL ANIMAL TORTURES AND USELESS TESTS AND CRUEL HORRIFYING PROCEDURES
  • George Cobian
    signed 2026-08-28 18:41:42 +0100
  • Donna Stringer
    signed 2026-08-28 15:55:31 +0100
    It is utterly disgusting that this country of ours, STILL runs vile puppy manufacturing businesses for scientific experiments! The breed is super intelligent and love to run freely, making this whole scenario even more grotesque than it already is. This must be closed down NOW!! I am shocked and ashamed that my country, England UK, home to millions of dog lovers, has allowed such a heinous place to exist! ENOUGH NOW!
  • Michele Love
    signed 2026-08-28 15:52:46 +0100
  • Finneas Daly
    signed 2026-08-28 07:41:05 +0100
  • Diane Lenton
    signed 2026-08-28 06:51:59 +0100
  • Leila Della Serra
    signed 2026-08-27 23:13:58 +0100
    Shame on all the people involved in the torture and killing of the beagle puppies.

    I hope Karma gets all of you!
  • Andy Pearce
    signed 2026-08-27 22:57:15 +0100
  • Tony Cranmer
    signed 2026-08-27 22:45:05 +0100
  • Karen Halloran
    signed 2026-08-27 21:49:41 +0100
  • Maisie Baldwin
    signed 2026-08-27 20:57:48 +0100
  • sophie Robertson
    signed 2026-08-27 19:32:14 +0100
  • Ellinor Helland
    signed 2026-08-27 19:05:11 +0100
    Stop this bullshitt! This is pure abuse and the people who work at those beagle – farms are disgusting humans. We should rather test products on them and pedofiles
  • Hayden Gilchrist
    signed 2026-08-27 18:30:01 +0100
  • ava pegler
    signed 2026-08-27 18:19:21 +0100
    save the beagles uwu
  • Katie Lister
    signed 2026-08-27 16:34:22 +0100
    Please please stop this I will rescue as many as possibly allowed please!
  • vivienne hannabuss
    signed 2026-08-27 15:35:50 +0100
    Daily inhumane acts of cruelty with violence to innocent beagle puppies who do not lead a normal dogs life, as we all know. The Laboratory workers must have found it hard to find work-so they took these positions in UK Labororaties, they need Public Shaming-and-never able to have ANY Animal as a Pet in the rest of their LIFETIMES.

    MP’s in Parliament have pets in their off duty hours-how would they like their animals to be subjected to these Horrendous Daily Obscene practices which are not now needed and viable, and classed as outdated in 2026.

    The laws in Parliament need immediate changing. If President Trump in the USA who recently Closed Down Ridglan MBR so can our new PM Andy Burnham;

    Please, ….innocent Puppies are being tortured daily as we breathe, and then euthanised ~ What For I exclaim, it’s bordering on Sadistic Practices which the evil minded Labororatory Workers might actually enjoy being in a Powerful Position over Animals.

    They are Not a very nice type of everyday Person; and, I hope one day ‘Kalma’, will pay needed DUTY on them-they do know that they are doing wrong, and when they leave early in the extreme heat considered not fit for humans to work in ( wearing Balaclavas as they drive through the main gates past the Patient 5 + year Camp Beagle MBR supporters; While Back in the Hot Metal Sheds with no natural Daylight the innocent puppies with no bowls of fresh water, and walking around their cages through their own excrements their feet and bodies covered, this very surely cannot be ‘Great Britain’ that we live in, for goodness sake to the animals get the laws updated that animal testing for substances will NEVER be allowed again.
  • Tracey Staerck
    signed 2026-08-27 15:24:50 +0100
  • Anna Ribeiro
    signed 2026-08-27 14:36:09 +0100
    This needs to end!
  • G Howard
    signed 2026-08-27 14:20:02 +0100
    Heartbreaking these poor animals
  • Jo Jefferies
    signed 2026-08-27 13:26:15 +0100
  • Olivia Barclay
    signed 2026-08-27 11:18:12 +0100
  • Glacy Valdex
    signed 2026-08-27 08:22:33 +0100
    We are the cancer to the world and it’s impossible to heal no matter how we try.
  • Eleanor Challen
    signed 2026-08-26 22:07:19 +0100