Tell AstraZeneca in Sweden to re-place their dogs instead of killing them!

Right now it looks like there are three different scenarios;

1. AstraZeneca stands by their plans and kill all dogs before last March 2013.

2. AstraZeneca sends the dogs to an animal testing facility in England where they subject them to painful experiments before they are killed.

3. We manage to get them to take their ethical responsibilities and allows us to relocate the dogs into new loving homes.

SEND EMAILS TO ASTRAZENECA, ASK THEM TO RE-PLACE THE BEAGLES TO LOVING HOMES INSTEAD!

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Translated from Animal Alliance Sweden's homepage:

"Over the past two years, the big pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca divested much of its operations in Sweden. This has also affected their laboratory facilities and experimental animal activities. This means that the use of experimental dogs should have ended at AstraZeneca in Sweden. The animals were left when the decision to close down the business was concluded, has been either killed or returned to AstraZeneca's kennel outside Örkelljunga. The kennel has a permit to annually raise around 500 dogs to animal testing. AstraZeneca has announced that the kennel would be phased out, but according to recent documentation from the Animal Rights Alliance is still active. Behind the grid living, where a large number of beagles whose future is uncertain.

- We wonder what will happen to the beagles on AstraZeneca's kennel. Lots of animal lovers with great knowledge about the dogs have been in touch to offer them loving homes, but AstraZeneca consistently refuses to give the dogs a chance for new life, says Andrea Gunnarson, spokesperson for Animal Rights Alliance Campaign Let The Astra-dogs Live

- We want to provide loving homes as an alternative to AstraZeneca's planned mass killing, says Andrea Gunnarson, spokesperson for Animal Rights Alliance Sweden.

There are two possible scenarios for what AstraZeneca will do with the dogs. Either they will be sold to painful animal experiments abroad or they will be killed, as data from Astra itself maintains. Given the large amount of dogs currently on Rååhöjdens kennel outside Örkelljunga would the latter entail a brutal mass killing of innocent and sentient beings. Dogs that not once throughout their lives have experienced the joys that a beloved family dog get to experience every day.

- Thanks to AstraZeneca these dogs were born into a life of over stimulation, abuse and exploitation. When Astra now has the chance to give the dogs all the things that they have hitherto been deprived of pharmaceutical giant refuses to release the dogs to the skilled and dedicated animal lovers. In return for the dogs' involuntary service in AstraZeneca laboratories and breeding facility, Astra only one to offer them: death or continued suffering, says Andrea Gunnarson, spokesperson for Animal Rights Alliance Swedens newly started campaign: Let The Astra-dogs live.

Animal Rights Alliance has since AstraZeneca announced its decision to close its laboratory facilities offered to take care of the animals who have been affected. But Astra's interest in cooperation is nonexistent.

- We want to know what the future that awaits the dogs on AstraZeneca's kennel in Örkelljunga and we want to know why AstraZeneca did not want to relocate them to loving homes. But above all, we want these dogs to eventually get a second chance on the other side of AstraZeneca grid. We will do everything in our power to make it a reality!"

SEND EMAILS TO ASTRAZENECA, ASK THEM TO RE-PLACE THE BEAGLES TO LOVING HOMES INSTEAD!

kontakt@astrazeneca.com

ir@astrazeneca.com