Puppy Farm Campaigners Act to Distance Themselves from Crufts Endorsement

Longstanding anti puppy farm campaign group, Puppy Love, has acted to distance itself from association with a segment aired on More 4 during Sunday’s coverage of Crufts dog show. The much-respected campaign group has issued the following statement:

On the 14th March during the live coverage of Crufts there was a discussion on puppy farming involving Marc Abrahams and Linzi Follet.

During the discussion some of our undercover filming was shown leading to us receiving emails and telephone calls from supporters or members who thought that we were now supporting the Kennel Club campaign. People were upset with us as a result of this as we have always maintained our position that we cannot endorse or associate the Kennel Club whilst they continue to take money from puppy farmers, the very people they seek to criticise on TV but who’s cheques the Kennel Club is happy to cash.

We would like to make it plain, for avoidance of any doubt or confusion, our film was used without permission from us just as they have used our photographs to promote their campaign and the Accredited Breeder Scheme in the past. We did not endorse this, agree to it and were never even asked for permission.

Let us make it perfectly clear, we do NOT support the Kennel Club or the message they give out about Accredited Breeders being the only way to buy a healthy, ethically reared puppy. We feel this is misleading and, worse, uses the very serious issue of puppy farming as a means by which to promote their own schemes. The Kennel Club do not make it plain to the public that puppy farmers have, and continue to, register their puppies with the Kennel Club’s registry.

During our undercover work we find puppy farmers who are KC registered, the dogs live in filth, are over-bred and pups are sickly yet still the KC allow these people to make more money from these pups as they grant them the perceived endorsement of Kennel Club paperwork.

At the same time they are pushing the Accredited Breeder Scheme as supposedly ‘ideal breeders’ who do all the right things. We do not agree with this view and have concerns about some fairly major weaknesses in the Accredited Breeder Scheme which have not been addressed by the Kennel Club.

Not all Accredited Breeder Scheme bred puppies are raised in a family environment nor are they all socialised and conditions at some breeders who are members of the scheme leave a lot to be desired.

When buying a puppy do your homework.

Do not accept a breeder’s paperwork as a sure-fire sign of their responsibility. Check and double check before you make your decision. There are very, very good breeders out there, some who refuse to go on the Accredited Breeder Scheme list due to weakness with the scheme, they are however excellent breeders none the the less.

Once again we reiterate, we do not support the KC campaign and wish to completely disassociate from it.

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Tags:  Animal Welfare, puppy farming