Whats the Greg Avery story?
A. I have been involved in the A.R. movement since I was at school over 20 years ago. I first became involved with a group called the Northern Animal Liberation League who carried out some famous raids in the early 80’s proving the link between labs and stolen pets by rescuing a black labrador called Blackie from Sheffield University. Due to the publicity of this raid the owners of Blackie came forward and he was reunited with his owners who went onto tell how Blackie had been snatched from outside their house. In 1996 I helped form a group called The Consort Beagle campaign with the aim of closing down a beagle breeding farm (All sold to labs) called Consort Kennels. They had about 800 beagles on site. After an intense 10 month campaign, during which Consort was raided 3 times with 26 beagles being rescued, Consort closed seeing 200 beagles rehomed. In late 1997 a group of us formed Save the Hillgrove Cats to close Britain’s last remaining breeder of cats for vivisection Hillgrove Cat
