The statue to the memory of the vivisected brown dog in Battersea, London, was a target for those who supported vivisection for medical research, and on several occasions it was attacked by rampaging students from University College and Middlesex Hospital. Opponents of the statue gained control of the local council, which decided to remove it. In response, over 3,000 anti-vivisectionists held a protest rally in central London in 1910. These events were reported in the New Zealand press.
In 1985, over 70 years after the statue's removal, a new statue of the brown dog was commissioned by anti-vivisection groups and placed in Battersea Park.
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