Core official sources
- Animals in Science Regulation Unit collection
- Home Office annual statistics 2024
- ASRU annual report 2024
- Non-technical summaries collection
- Research and testing using animals: licences and guidance
- Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986
- GOV.UK guidance on the operation of ASPA
- User guide to annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals
Alternatives and government strategy sources
Camp Beagle links
- Camp Beagle homepage
- Camp Beagle: get involved
- Camp Beagle campaign materials
- Camp Beagle: write to your MP
- Camp Beagle: donate
Bred For Labs is a smaller support initiative. For frontline campaign updates and action routes, visit Camp Beagle directly.
Dog sentience, pain and suffering sources
- GOV.UK: Animal Sentience Committee report on legislative definitions
- British Veterinary Association: animal sentience position
- World Small Animal Veterinary Association: pain recognition, assessment and treatment guidelines
- Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine: recognising pain in dogs
- NC3Rs: improving the welfare of laboratory dogs
- Hall, Robinson and Buchanan-Smith: refining oral gavage in dogs
- RSPCA: reducing severe suffering in laboratory animals
Priority NTS PDF sources
ASRU timeline and dog experiment writeups
The “Who signs this off?” page is built from year-by-year plain-language writeups of official non-technical summaries from 2017 to 2025. Each timeline entry includes a source signpost to the relevant year, study title and document period.
- 2017–2018: older NTS volumes using project-title signposts where page numbers were not always available.
- 2019–2025: priority dog and beagle writeups using Home Office non-technical summaries, especially programmes involving dosing, repeated blood sampling, surgery, confinement, biological product collection and killing.
- ASRU critique: based on ASRU annual reports, compliance policy and the regulator notes and ASRU source material used for this site.
Public wording used on cards
- “2,646 dog experiments were recorded in Britain in 2024.” This is plain-language wording based on the official Home Office figure of 2,646 experimental procedures using dogs in Great Britain in 2024.
- “Most were regulatory tests — not attempts to discover new cures.” This is plain-language wording based on the official 2024 data showing most dog procedures were regulatory.
- “Dogs are not just statistics.” This is supported by animal-sentience and veterinary pain-recognition sources listed above.