A DORSET animal activism group protested at Royal Bournemouth Hospital outside a site for clinical waste disposal.

Activists for Dorset Against Animal Testing wore bloodied lab gear on Tuesday while chanting for the closure of a puppy factory in Cambridge, named MBR Acres.

Activist Nicky Taylor claimed that the factory breeds 2,000 dogs a year for vivisection laboratories.

She said: "There's a big campaign where we're asking all the different businesses to boycott MBR Acres so we can shut them down. 

"It's a fairly new campaign that launched in the last couple of months and some big companies have already pulled out."

Although Royal Bournemouth Hospital is not on that list, Stericycle, which runs the clinical waste disposal site on the hospital campus, is. 

Nicky claimed that Stericycle has been linked to taking the bodies of the dead dogs to incinerate them. 

Activists admitted they did not know if the site on RBH campus is part of cremating the dogs, but still hope that it will urge the company to not work with MBR Acres.

She said: "We're asking them to do the compassionate thing and not work with MBRA and create a new ethical policy.

"I don't know which branch the dogs go to but their vans are taking the corpses of the dogs in these yellow body bags and then they're being incinerated.

"We've asked Stericyle to join the boycott like HSBC, Pets At Home and all different companies who when they found out didn't want to work with them anymore."

Attracting attention from visitors to RBH, the protest played a recording reportedly from MBRA's factory of a dog's whimpering in the hope it will 'strike a nerve'.

Nicky said: "We had a lot of attention when we first arrived because people could hear the sounds of the dogs and were really intrigued. 

"We had quite a few crowds forming and then we were able to speak to the public to explain these are the sounds that no one gets to hear because they're locked away."