Put Puppy Farms Out Of Business

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Petition to: do everything in his power to put puppy farms out of business. | Number10.gov.uk

Could everyone please circulate this. Anyone with facebook, twitter etc. Now is our chance to put these bar stewards out of business.

[LOVEGSD]

Hi Nina

I'll put this on the forum FB page and on my group page too. I've signed it.

Lynn
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[tinkabellswish]

i hate puppy farms there awful to the dogs but don't no how we can stop it if people don't buy these dogs what happens to them ?
do they leave them to die?
do they keep them till they get homes?
its really hard to find away to stop them
i understand that if people dint buy the dogs they produce they would eventually go out of business which is good then future dogs don't experience the suffering that other dogs was so unfortunate to.
but in the mean time the dogs that they are breeding from are still suffering
its awful and many people including my self don't no how we could stop these animals from suffering or even how to approach it
humans can be so cruel
im so confused how can we stop this is there a way we can stop it so no more dogs suffer

i do apologize for the essay lol i just wish we could click are fingers and it be stopped no more pain no more stress, illness or sadness and all of them be with people who love there dogs people like the people on this forum, that would be a wish come true

[Vislor]

The petition has moved or something

We've got two GSD's for residential training at the moment. The couple who brought them to us got them from puppy farms and they are the worst GSD's I've ever seen in my life. The construction is bad, condition is bad, you can't get any weight on them and they look almost like half dead foxes.

I also know of puppy farms masquerading as 'working kennels' that are truly awful. One even got raided by the RSPCA and fined £10,000 but they're still operating somehow.

Breeding dogs takes a lot of time, effort and money to produce even one or two good litters. Can't imagine how these people can justify selling hundreds of puppies a year. You'd need an area the size of a large town and an army of dedicated carers to sell that amount in anywhere near good condition.

I'm knackered and we've only got one litter at the moment!

[Caryll]

Originally Posted by Vislor

Can't imagine how these people can justify selling hundreds of puppies a year. You'd need an area the size of a large town and an army of dedicated carers to sell that amount in anywhere near good condition.

They justify it by the way their pockets jingle & their bank balances grow.

[Vislor]

Just got a few questions because I don't know a huge amount about puppy farming.

1. Is it illegal in England and

2. What constitutes a puppy farm (legally)?

[Caryll]

Originally Posted by Vislor

Just got a few questions because I don't know a huge amount about puppy farming.

1. Is it illegal in England and

2. What constitutes a puppy farm (legally)?

Puppy farms aren't illegal, although you're supposed to have a licence (I think) if you breed more than so many litters a year, or keep more than 2 (again, I think) un neutered females.

It all comes down to whether anyone reports to the RSPCA that the pups are being subjected to cruelty, either in the way they or kept, or the way the bitches are kept & bred over & over again.

The Dogs Trust has recently started a campaign to change the name from Puppy Farms to Battery Farms for Dogs to try & get across to the public what is so bad about them. There is a bill going through parliament (in the Autumn I think) to make it harder to have a puppy farm in Wales, but I don't know what's happenning in England, if anything.

[nisbreagha]

A good documentary on TV would do a bit of good for the cause and make more peole aware of what the term means as my experience is that when people come to classes with behavioural issues and we ask where did you get the dog etc and they say wherever and we delve further it often becomes apparent its a puppy farm and when we say this their ansewer is "oh it wasn;t a farm" I then have to expaline that its just a term and it can be someones garage god even a spare room in aflat if there are numerous breeds and litters at the same time and they are breedig oi the same bitch every season from the first season. People are so shocked and upset that their dogs is from that kind of establishment but have no idea what they are doing when they go to buy a dog they don't realise and yes they should do more research but a bit more publiciity on this would go along way IMO

[Vislor]

I've heard of people advertising their bitches out on 'breeding terms' where people keep the bitch on behalf of the kennel on the conditions that the original owners get a silly number of litters out of them over a number of years. More than the 4 that is allowed by the KC so they're obviously not bothered about registering the pups.

Also heard the same people are breeding from underaged bitches and lots of other stuff but whether the pups are being kept under cruel conditions I don't know.

[J&J]

Council requires you to have a breeders licence if you've are breeding a certian amount of bitches or having a set number of litters per year, not sure what the numbers are, nor whether differet councils have different numbers involved..

But the council's licence really isn't worth the paper it's written on, as well it seems by some places that say they are counciled licenced etc are either lying or the council never check the breeders property

I think that's the problem is that people invisage when puppy farm is said, it's a barn in a field etc.. They don't realise that it could be the dog around the corner!

I've seen dogs that have been used in puppy farm, and it's heart breaking to see a 4/5 year old lab that been breed so often there mammory glads are so baggy, and their backs are so bowed that it's almost dragging along the floor and they look more akin to a dog twice their age..

And it makes my mind boggle more often or not people are willing to hand over hundreds and hundreds are pounds with out checking out what they are buying..