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MBR Acres breeds thousands of beagle puppies each year at its site in Cambridgeshire, selling them on for painful, outdated experiments.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There are growing calls from the public to save these beagles and all animals from outdated, torturous experiments.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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  • Kate Fowler
    signed 2025-12-09 07:10:51 +0000
  • Claire McKay
    signed 2025-12-09 07:05:36 +0000
  • Deborah Smith
    signed 2025-12-09 07:05:03 +0000
  • Bernice Baker
    signed 2025-12-09 07:04:41 +0000
  • David Inward
    signed 2025-12-09 07:04:14 +0000
  • Gemma Clifton
    signed 2025-12-09 07:04:03 +0000
  • Melissa Holt
    signed 2025-12-09 07:02:52 +0000
  • Elaine Pedley
    signed 2025-12-09 07:02:07 +0000
  • Sarah Telfer
    signed 2025-12-09 07:01:30 +0000
    Please help these pups there’ is no need for animal testing no need at all
  • David Nicholas
    signed 2025-12-09 06:58:09 +0000
  • Chloe Mcgarry
    signed 2025-12-09 06:57:10 +0000
  • Kathleen Ennis
    signed 2025-12-09 06:55:48 +0000
  • Jacqueline Sandlin
    signed 2025-12-09 06:44:18 +0000
  • Maria O Donnell
    signed 2025-12-09 06:27:00 +0000
  • Madeleine Hamilton
    signed 2025-12-09 06:26:59 +0000
  • Diane Larowska
    signed 2025-12-09 06:26:19 +0000
  • christine charley
    signed 2025-12-09 06:16:49 +0000
  • Paul Summers
    signed 2025-12-09 06:10:53 +0000
  • Cathy Muller
    signed 2025-12-09 06:07:00 +0000
    Dogs are man’s best friend, how can man repay that love, trust and loyalty with such cruelty and contempt? How can anyone who loves their dog accept the horrors that other dogs are forced to endure? Regardless of the excuse given, be it science, culture, sport or entertainment, it is completely unjustifiable to treat those who only love us unconditionally so abhorrently.
  • Kevin Heighway-Corcoran
    signed 2025-12-09 06:04:10 +0000
  • Melody Sawad
    signed 2025-12-09 06:03:48 +0000
  • Viktoria Novikova
    signed 2025-12-09 05:58:13 +0000
  • Jack Brincat
    signed 2025-12-09 05:53:17 +0000
  • Helen Warren
    signed 2025-12-09 05:52:44 +0000
  • Petronella Van Kessel
    signed 2025-12-09 05:46:06 +0000
    Please rehom the beagle’s shit down MBR no need using innocent dogs for tests there are other ways without using any kind of animals please shut them down and let the beagle’s be free or any test animal
  • Jane Masters
    signed 2025-12-09 05:40:40 +0000
  • Maureen Hanson
    signed 2025-12-09 05:30:33 +0000
    This place is an animal hell another death camp in our so called civilised country ? No civilised person would have it. Our country should ñot allow it .Please in the name of God have it closed removed from our country and never allow anything like it again.
  • Lucy Taylor
    signed 2025-12-09 05:25:05 +0000
  • Donna Stringer
    signed 2025-12-09 05:18:26 +0000
    These beautiful dogs are being so cruelly treated, in a country renowned and famously know for our love of animals. Yet here we are, in Cambridge England, experimenting, poisoning, dissecting these loyal, family dogs!! What the hell is going on?! This MUST STOP now and these pups need to go to good homes. How about experimenting in some of the useless politicians, that have cost this country so much in the past 4 decades?
  • Elizabeth Gaffney
    signed 2025-12-09 05:16:54 +0000