Puppy Farm Awareness Day 19th September 2009: Puppy Love, Hope UK and Puppy Alert are working together to raise public awareness of puppy farming. The connection between puppy farms, licensed commercial breeders, dealers and pet shops. This will take place on September 19 th 2009 to coincide with the Puppy Mill Awareness Day in the USA.

Puppy farming is no longer a cottage industry, a dog breeder owning a fewdogs for the purpose of producing an occasional litter and selling the surplus puppies. It has now grown to a large commercial enterprise with dogs living in disused barns and puppies bred on a conveyor belt system more akin to factory farming than ethical dog breeding. It is alleged that one puppy farm in Ireland has between 700 and 1,100 breeding bitches and regularly supply dealers and pet shops in the UK. In Carmarthenshire, Wales in just one county, there are nearly 90 licensed dog breeders; most regularly supply pet shops through the dealer network.

Licensing does not ensure that breeding bitches, stud dogs and their puppies needs are being met by the breeders or by the Council authorities that license and inspect the premises. This was highlighted recently when a recent Welsh TV programme went undercover in three licensed dog breeding establishments in Carmarthenshire to view the film follow the link.

Surprisingly no action was taken by the Council or the RSPCA although serious issues relating to poor accommodation and welfare were witnessed.

We would like to invite other organizations and individuals to join us on the 19th September by raising awareness on puppy farming. Maybe, by having a stall in your local town or by displaying posters in shops, vets etc. to highlight the plight of the thousands of dogs and puppies that are confined in concrete cells for a lifetime often without bed or bedding, stud dogs kept in isolation until needed. Most never seeing the outside world, the freedom of exercise and not always a whelping box for a breeding bitch to give birth or raise her puppies but leaving her no choice but to give birth on concrete.

That is often the reality of life of for a puppy farm breeding bitch and her puppies. Please contact Puppy Love by email puppylove@dogs-r-us.org for more information.

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