Photos: Giant Beagle Puppy Pops Up in Westminster Tube to Plead Parliament to End Animal Testing
6 June 2025
Photos: Giant Beagle Puppy Pops Up in Westminster Tube to Plead Parliament to End Animal Testing
London — Parliamentarians at Westminster station are being met with a surprising sight on their commutes – a massive beagle in a cage who urges passersby to help end cruel and useless experiments on animals. The pleading pup – strategically placed just around the corner from the Houses of Parliament and Downing Street – is part of PETA’s campaign calling on the government to adopt its Research Modernisation Deal, a strategy to end animal testing and pivot to human-relevant research methods.
More photos are available here. The billboard is located on Platform 2, Eastbound on the District Line at Westminster Station, Bridge St, SW1A 2JR and is live for 2 weeks. Credit: Harvey Giles Photography.
“Monkeys, dogs, rabbits, and other animals are being caged and tormented right now in horrific experiments that are holding back science, not advancing it,” says PETA Head of Science Policy Dr Julia Baines. “PETA is calling on the government to keep its promise to phase out cruel and unreliable tests on animals and switch to cutting-edge techniques that actually help humans.”
In June 2024, the Labour Party released its manifesto, pledging to work towards phasing out testing on animals and to “partner with scientists, industry, and civil society” to achieve this goal. PETA has since called on the partydopt the Research Modernisation Deal, a 6-step strategy to end all animal experimentation.
Every year, millions of animals are bled, poisoned, deprived of food, isolated, mutilated, or otherwise subjected to psychological suffering and physical pain in British laboratories. Millions more are bred and discarded as “surplus” because, for example, they were not of the desired sex or lacked certain disease characteristics.
PETA has revealed a slew of atrocities in the experimentation industry – every year, countless dogs are forced to inhale or ingest chemicals, including pesticides, for regulatory approval and product development. During these tests, dogs may be forced to wear tight masks and inhale toxic chemicals into their lungs for hours at a time, sometimes for days on end. Many suffer severe lung damage and chronic pain. Even if they survive, they are almost always killed afterwards. At highly regarded universities, experimenters drill holes into primates’ skulls and place implants into their brains before restraining them for hours on end, their heads bolted into place, as they are forced to engage in tasks on a computer screen.
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on” – points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow PETA on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.
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