The RSPCA Wants to Know Where You Got Your Dog From
Posted By Freelance Writers Date: 30/04 Posted Under: Animal Charities, Dog SurveysThe RSPCA is conducting a survey of UK dog purchasing habits.
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Anyone who has bought a puppy in the last three years is being invited to take part in a national online survey organised by the RSPCA.
Questions include where the puppy came from, how it was advertised, how much it cost, and if you’d buy another puppy from the same place. Results will enable the charity to identify if buying a puppy is generally a positive or negative experience.
RSPCA campaigner Justine Pannett said:
“You can pick up a puppy from a newspaper advert, a neighbour, pet shop, farm or breeder, so we’re trying to get a grip on how successful people’s experiences actually are. It’s obvious to say, but a puppy is a living creature, and this survey will help us determine whether or not these dogs are suffering throughout the experience, or if in general they are treated well.”
Anyone who has bought a puppy in the last three years is encouraged to take part in the survey, which runs until Monday 12 May. It can be found at www.rspca.org.uk/puppysurvey
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Really upset the RSPCA by telling them you bought your dog from a non-existent pet shop in an ordinary house which is supplied by Welsh and Irish “puppy farms”. Give them as vague an address as possible - they’ll be looking for hours and raiding pensioners watching TV.
I bet that a lot of responders will not say the RSPCA because they have stupid 1950’s style views on daily life.
I heard that one branch would not let a police officer adopt a dog because rthe officer worked shifts!
What is that aboutm perhaps they think that some people stay at home all day doing the housework and stuff, in the real world people as well as animals have to survive so amazingly perhpas both partners work, unbeleivable who would have thought that would happen in the 21st century?
RSPCA needs to address its rehoming policies and then perhaps there may be less dogs in its centres, what is wrong with a shift worker having a dog, surely it is better for the dog that it is not left in kennels waiting for a home when it could be in a home environment?