Remembering Britches today.

Britches, a stumptail macaque monkey, was born in March 1985. Born into a breeding colony at the University of California, Riverside in the USA. He was taken from his mother the day he was born.

His eyelids were sewn shut and a bulky, heavy electronic sonar device was strapped to his head, that made a constant screeching sound. He was now part of an experiment to test sensory substitution devices for blind people. Left alone in a wire cage with only a wire device wrapped in cloth, his surrogate “mother”. All he could do was cling to it and “nurse” from the bottle that it contained.

On 20th April 1985 Britches was liberated by animal rights activists known as the Animal Liberation Front (A.L.F). He was taken to a veterinarian who removed the black sutures from his eyes and the sonar device from his head. Over the next few months he was shown love and care.

When Britches was 5 months old he was transferred to a sanctuary in Mexico. There, a female monkey adopted him and cared for him as her own. He could now live the life he should have had from the day he was born.

“PETA published photographs, videotapes, and documents obtained by the rescuers, and a year after the raid at the university, documents filed by the university revealed that eight out of the 17 experiments from which animals were rescued were never resumed. The school also stopped permitting baby monkeys’ eyes to be sewn shut, and one instructor stopped experimenting on animals altogether.” (PETA)

As outreach, in Britches memory, 2 of us put Camp Beagle leaflets through 1,000 letterboxes in 2.5 hours. It was a lovely sunny day and we were done in no time at all! We also had a few conversations with people, about the Beagles. If this is something you can do, then go for it! You can request leaflets from https://thecampbeagle.com/campaign-material/ Take photos of your action (only include people and property with consent), be proud of what you are doing for the animals! On social media use the hashtag #AntiVivOutreach so everyone can see.

On Sunday 19th April 2026 Animal Aid released footage of animal suffering. Toxicity tests that are licensed. Please don’t turn away, the animals can’t. This is their life. They need YOU!!

YOU can help the animals imprisoned in laboratories. Follow Animal Aid and learn more about this campaign here

Write to your local MP

Please do all you can to help animals imprisoned in laboratories.

DOUBLE DEMO DAY is back! Can you protest your local British Heart Foundation shop and Cancer research UK shop? Here are the 4 National Campaign days for 2026.

If you can take part on 14th February please send an email to liberate@vivisectionexposed.co.uk letting us know the shops you can protest, the times of each protest and a contact email for people to get in touch if they can join you. The same in time for May, August and October events.

The time is now. Together we are stronger. We will end animal testing. Join us!

The Home Office published the annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain 2024 on 23rd October 2025. 2,637,578 procedures on animals that feel pain. You can find all the data on the Home Office website here

The statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain are usually published by the Home Office in July every year. Last year, they were delayed due to the elections taking place. Now, in 2025, they have been delayed again.

An announcement was made on the government website to say they will be published in September or October 2025. The Home Office receive the data from establishments in January every year. Why does it take them so long to create the full report. Is it because they have been errors on the reports for the past few years? Will they be double, triple checking the data this year?

We`ll break down the figures and put them on social media so you don`t have to read the whole report. Here is the link to the report if you do want to read it https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-of-scientific-procedures-on-living-animals-great-britain-2023

Just a reminder to bookmark our events page as we`ll be adding more and more events over the coming months. April is always busy for anti-vivisection protests with it being Britches Day on 20th April, World Day for Animals in Laboratories (WDAIL) on 24th April and the WDAIL march this year is on Saturday 27th April in Liverpool!

Our events page can be found here and there you`ll see details of the WDAIL march and some of our planned events this year……more to come!