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English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer Simon Pegg is a supporter of Hounded.
Best known for films Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Ice Age and Mission Impossible, Simon took to his personal instagram account to ask his half a million followers to support our campaign.
Simon told us: “I’m honestly not quite sure how testing on dogs is still legally allowed to happen. We’re a nation of dog lovers and yet something so cruel and outdated (and preventable!) is still going on? I think it’s time we spoke out.”
Penny talking to Kevin O’Sullivan on Talk Radio about Hounded Campaign, live at 9pm on 1/2/22. It was great to talk to Kevin who was really supportive and said that he too urged government to ban testing on dogs as there was never a justification for it.
THE SUN
Published 28/1/22
HOUNDED: Cramped pens & ‘bled like vampires to death’ for cash: Inside harrowing UK beagle farms which breed dogs for lab testing.
The feature in The Sun showed undercover footage of beagles bound for testing cramped in pens, uncovers the Home Office’s statement that there are not plans to hold a review into the use of animals in science, and the harrowing details of MBR Acres bleeding out ex-breeding and ex-stud dogs and harvesting their organs… instead of re-homing these young, still hopeful beagles.
TAKE A BREAK PETS
Published 4/1/22
MIRROR FEATURE
Published 17/11/21
Two animal-loving mums have launched a campaign to ban the breeding of beagle puppies for experiments in the UK.
Friends Penny Weston, 35, and Sophie Attwood, 30, from Staffordshire, were horrified when they discovered that each year thousands of dogs are bred into ‘factory farms’ for ‘painful toxicity’ experiments conducted in labs in the UK.
The dog-loving duo decided to take action and launched their Hounded campaign to raise awareness of the practice, and help bring an end to dogs being used in testing.
TALK RADIO TV
Live on 16/11/21
A huge thank you to @talkradiouk for allowing us to share our story on their platform!
Our co-founder Sophie talked to Kevin O’Sullivan and Dominic Dyer about animal testing, the concentration camp that breeds beagle puppies for experiments in Cambridgeshire and the incredible celebrity support we’ve had so far from the likes of Simon Pegg and Duncan James.