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MBR Acres breeds thousands of beagle puppies each year at its site in Cambridgeshire, selling them on for painful, outdated experiments.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There are growing calls from the public to save these beagles and all animals from outdated, torturous experiments.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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  • Dan Watson
    signed 2025-06-02 20:37:19 +0100
  • Aleisha McFarlane
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  • Heddy Way
    signed 2025-06-02 20:24:32 +0100
  • Ivana Morris
    signed 2025-06-02 20:24:27 +0100
    Animal testing is inhumane and has no place in a civilised society. We must stop this.
  • Liz Collop
    signed 2025-06-02 20:23:53 +0100
  • Hazel Satloka
    signed 2025-06-02 20:22:46 +0100
  • Cara Gilbert
    signed 2025-06-02 20:22:04 +0100
    Fact: Over 90% of drugs used on animals fail in humans. Animal “experiments” are abhorrently barbaric, pointless and completely uneccessary when we already have more ethical, faster, cheaper and far superior non animal methodologies instead! Putting ethics completely aside for a moment too, human beings are NOT mice, rats, cats, dogs, horses etc, which is why so many drugs that work in animals fail in humans and vice a versa because we are so biologically different. Think about it, we don’t have wagging tails, we can’t run up walls or bark, meow or neigh. We can eat chocolate but to dogs, it is poisonous.


    Using logic and speaking purely scientifically here, if we want to know what drugs work best for humans, then the best and the only “test” subjects to use are, unsurprisingly, humans. So, if some “people” believe we have to “experiment” on animals in order to “progress” with scientific “research” and that “progress” is more important than ethics, then why aren’t we experimenting on the best “test” subjects for our species, humans?
  • Heather Miles
    signed 2025-06-02 20:21:13 +0100
  • Ernie Scales
    signed 2025-06-02 20:20:49 +0100
    With no genetic link between dogs and humans why the Hell is this happening? Test on humans!
  • Cherie McCurry
    signed 2025-06-02 20:19:50 +0100
    It’s deplorable that in 2025 this is acceptable. It has to stop now
  • Fletcher Evans
    signed 2025-06-02 20:18:00 +0100
  • Holly Thompson
    signed 2025-06-02 20:17:11 +0100
  • Hilary Weeks
    signed 2025-06-02 20:16:09 +0100
  • Nicola Mclean
    signed 2025-06-02 20:16:05 +0100
    There is absolutely no excuse to continue carrying out tortuous tests on animals of any species when more reliable, cruelty-free alternatives exist, and when we already know that animal test results don’t necessarily translate into similar results in humans. How can anyone treat these innocent, sentient creatures in such a psychopathic way under the guise of research. It’s abhorrent.
  • Gayle Holden
    signed 2025-06-02 20:15:48 +0100
    There is absolutely no need to for animal testing in the 21st century. Those who do should hang their heads in shame.