About us Our history 1943 – Save our Dogs petition at SSPV offices The ‘Save our Dogs’, national campaign petition to liberate dogs from the cruelty of vivisection experiments was available at the SSPV office: We, the undersigned Friends of Dogs, deeply resenting the cruel and revolting experiments perpetrated daily on the dog, in the name of “research,” do hereby record our detestation of all such experiments. We, believing that the Countless Ages in which the Dog has proved himself to be the singularly devoted, faithful and loving friend of Man, entitle him to his release from such ungrateful and barbarous treatment, call upon Parliament to grant immediate facilities for the passing of such legislation, as will make it unlawful to perform any vivisection on any dog for any purpose whatsoever, with or without anaesthetics and that no person or place shall be licensed for the purpose of performing any such experiment. And your Petitioners will ever pray.