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MBR Acres breeds thousands of beagle puppies each year at its site in Cambridgeshire, selling them on for painful, outdated experiments.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There are growing calls from the public to save these beagles and all animals from outdated, torturous experiments.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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  • Sunny Cutts
    signed 2026-07-10 22:51:33 +0100
    Dogs are not disposable laboratory equipment. These beagles are living, feeling animals who experience fear, pain and distress, and they deserve compassion and protection. There has to be a better future for science than continuing to subject innocent animals to suffering. Please save these beagles and give them the chance to know kindness, safety, love and a life outside of a laboratory. They deserve so much more. 🐾
  • Faith Daron
    signed 2026-07-10 21:59:04 +0100
  • Tracey Llewellyn
    signed 2026-07-10 21:57:07 +0100
    This has to stop right now. This is cruel, these dogs do not deserve to be treated like this. The people that perform these tests are vile people, I cannot call them human beings because they are not. You are vile scum 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
  • Kara Meyers
    signed 2026-07-10 21:50:33 +0100
  • Alina Danescu
    signed 2026-07-10 21:26:12 +0100
  • Cheryl Roe
    signed 2026-07-10 20:08:02 +0100
  • Barbara Dokter
    signed 2026-07-10 19:58:09 +0100
    Animal testing needs to end because it makes no sense why an animal needs to suffer for my deodorant or something like that. I buy only animal cruelty free products.
  • Victoria Rasekhi
    signed 2026-07-10 19:43:12 +0100
  • Saffron Cook
    signed 2026-07-10 19:42:34 +0100
    End this needless suffering. It is barbaric and utterly heartbreaking. With our research today accompanied with AI this is completely unacceptable, out dated and unreliable.
  • Elizabeth Davies
    signed 2026-07-10 19:18:06 +0100
    Researching on animals is wrong. There are other ways without the cruelty. AI and organ on a chip.

    Research on animals does not work
  • Hope Barnes
    signed 2026-07-10 18:00:05 +0100
  • Keira Megan frosdick frosdick
    signed 2026-07-10 17:53:25 +0100
    Free the pups!
  • Karina Villalba
    signed 2026-07-10 17:26:06 +0100
    Please stop animal testing it is barbaric
  • Julie Coleman
    signed 2026-07-10 17:17:20 +0100
    This must xtop younhave bew technology now that works 80 percent where animal test only work 30 percent COME ON HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE IN BEAGLES PLACE BLOODY HORRIBLE
  • Alfie Calver
    signed 2026-07-10 17:17:16 +0100
  • Nicola Kelly
    signed 2026-07-10 16:42:18 +0100
    Please stop this cruel behaviour
  • Venetia Lang
    signed 2026-07-10 15:45:42 +0100
    MBR Acres is a place that’s: barbaric, archaic and gives me the “ick”.


    Time to shut it down and get those poor beagles out and into loving homes..
  • Lauren Okeefe
    signed 2026-07-10 15:42:58 +0100
  • Dom Lee
    signed 2026-07-10 15:18:55 +0100
  • Chantel Morton
    signed 2026-07-10 15:17:06 +0100
    This is inhumane
  • Georgia Hingston
    signed 2026-07-10 14:39:03 +0100
  • Delphi Merriman
    signed 2026-07-10 14:05:48 +0100
  • Anika Strom
    signed 2026-07-10 13:41:52 +0100
  • riya dhupia
    signed 2026-07-10 13:14:28 +0100
  • Anna Lane
    signed 2026-07-10 13:06:44 +0100
  • Tiffany Jones
    signed 2026-07-10 12:42:17 +0100
  • Dawn Buchroeder
    signed 2026-07-10 12:25:27 +0100
  • Susie Goodpaster
    signed 2026-07-10 12:12:46 +0100
  • Sue Higginbottom
    signed 2026-07-10 12:04:42 +0100
  • Nadine Peter
    signed 2026-07-10 11:57:32 +0100