Anti Puppy Farm Campaigners Hit Out at Kennel Club’s Diversion Tactics
Puppy Love, an anti puppy farm group which works tirelessly to bring awareness to the horror of commercialised puppy breeding, has issued a statement in response to the recent Bateson review. The group have made it clear they believe the Kennel Club has hijacked the anti puppy farming message in an attempt to deflect attention from its own negative public image. Puppy Love points out that the Kennel Club has and continues to accept money from the puppy farmers they seek to condemn, publicly. The statement reads…
We and other animal welfare campaigners have been saying much the same for years.
However we are concerned that yet again puppy farming will be forgotten while the pedigree dog scandal is dealt with.
In 1999 the sale of dogs act was amended to ensure councils could inspect and protect dogs bred in puppy farms and although it looked good on paper nothing changed. Inspections do take place but it’s just a paper exercise where boxes are ticked then the pup farmers are allowed to carry on their business as usual. Even when cruelty is pointed out to councils no action is taken.
20 years ago Martin Sennatt then chairman of the KC, made a statement on TV that the KC were scandalized for taking registrations from unscrupulous breeders and that they were changing their registration process to address the issue . If they did change their registration process it hasn’t deterred puppy farmers from registering their dogs and pups. The KC are now trying to lead the campaign against this cruel trade but at the same time they continue to profit from puppy farm misery by registering puppy farm bred puppies, hypocritical? Indeed it is. They tell us “As the secretariat and instigator of the Puppy Farming Study Group, which comprises representatives of the Kennel Club, animal welfare organisations across the whole of the UK, LACORS and government, the Kennel Club is at the forefront of moves to try to end the complex and obscure world of puppy farming”
In that case they should explain just how much success they have had and how much longer we have to wait for them to get the situation under control.
The public are still mislead into believing all KC reg pups are reared in an ethical responsible way.
The pedigree dog scandal is a disgrace to our country, after all we are meant to be a nation of dog lovers but make no mistake the puppy farming scandal is just as bad perhaps even worse.
We are assured that the Welsh Assembly are working towards improving the situation on puppy farms in their country where thousands of breeding bitches and stud dogs are incarcerated in unsuitable accommodation such as pig sheds, barns, sheds, garages and even old refrigerated containers.
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Puppy farm dogs have no veterinary intervention when they need respite from their pain and suffering, they are left with infected wombs and die in agony and panic or they die a grim death when there is no vet to perform a caesarean section to save mother and pups. Luckier ones go through life with ears running with infected pus, eyes with severe infections, open tumors, rotten decayed teeth, mange, hernias, coccidosis, lice, fleas, mites the list goes on. Some have no beds or bedding they give birth on concrete and according to one council official some female dogs prefer to deliver pups on cold concrete!!
They live in filth, sometimes without food or water, in summer they are too hot and in winter some will be frozen to death. Their coats are matted with faeces, their nails are overgrown, and some are blind but still expected to produce pups. Many are slowly going insane. They spin in circles or pace back and forth in their cells, some never see daylight, and the outside world is a foreign place to them. This also applies to stud dogs, as many are kept in total isolation until they are needed to perform their duty. Should any dogs be lucky enough to be rescued once outside in the open they still circle and pace as if they are still incarcerated? They shy away from human hands as they have never known kindness.
This is cruelty on a very large scale that takes place day after miserable day in the name of commerce. It should be banned but we know it won’t be, there is too much money involved for breeders, dealers, pet shops, advertisers and even government all taking their blood money cut from this horrendous cruelty. Shame on them all.
The public also must take some responsibility for this sorry state of affairs as they are the ones who fuel demand and are willing to buy pups from unscrupulous sources rather than make an effort to source a good ethical breeder. The puppy buying public are mislead at very turn thinking that by buying a pup in a pet shop or a local authority licensed kennel they are purchasing from a decent source when sometimes nothing could be further from the truth.
Time and time again puppy farms dogs have been abandoned and let down by the leading charities and large organisations in this country who have more than enough funds to expose this cruelty, instead its left to the small goups of campaigners like ourselves to organize protests and try to inform the public and to complain to councils who disregard us as cranks.
All evidence we have collected has been sent to RSPCA and we wait and wait and wait for action that probably will not happen.
In a few months time will Professor Bateson’s recommendations regarding puppy farms lie on a dusty shelf somewhere, forgotten and abandoned just like the puppy farm dogs? We expect so as the people in power have let the problem get so big and so out of control no one knows where to start on this huge issue of cruelty to man’s best friend . These abused dogs need help and they need it now .
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The KC are also secretariat for the Dangerous Dogs Act study group but it means nothing there either! The Bateson report will be forgotten not simply because the problem is too big (nothing is too big to sort if those with the most power want to sort it out) but groups like the KC are now so far up the chain they have no idea (or even care?) whats going on at grass root level. Its about time these groups came crashing back down to earth.
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I read the Bateson Report and the AGWA response on two (2) Different blogs that I subscribe to in the UK. (Bedlington Pictures and Alternative Bedlingtons) I was shocked that neither report got any comment or feedback from the UK breeders or pet owners. That kind of apathy will get you folks the same problems that we in the USA are now facing from the ANIMAL RIGHTS Groups. These groups have been organizing and chipping away at our legisation, state by state, until we are at risk of losing our rights to even own companion animals or agricultural animals, since one of the ARISTA groups are Vegan.
Our breeders kept sitting on their hands and doing nothing or waiting, saying that state doesn’t affect me, until the ARISTAS came to their state. Then acting in a reactive manner instead of a proactive manner. Even our American Kennel Club has been remiss in this battle, until recently.
Now, ten (10) years into the battle, our animal breeders, farmers and sportsmen are just beginning to fight for their rights and liberties.
Now, if we fight hard enough, we may save our wonderful sports and industries. But, how much easier would it have been to be proactive in the beginning and stand up for our rights from the start?
PLEASE folks, take action NOW!
Mary Lou
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I wish Puppy Love had all the power and money these national charities do and they could save every dog rotting away in a puppy farm and change the law to stop this nightmare that these dogs have been left to get on with.
Why the heck is this cruelty allowed to continue in the UK?
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