help stop to puppy farming in 2009

Subject: help stop to puppy farming in 2009 Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:32 pm

Jayne from gsd rescue has put together this letter so please copy and paste to word
document and send it to as many MPS or people of influence that you
can...thanks

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The Defra website claims that 'The Animal Welfare Act 2006 is the most
significant change in animal welfare legislation in almost a century.'
The new act is supposed to make owners and keepers responsible for ensuring that the welfare needs of their animals are met.
These include the need:

For a suitable environment (place to live)
For a suitable diet
To exhibit normal behaviour patterns
To be housed with, or apart from, other animals (if applicable)
To be protected from pain, injury, suffering and disease

Anyone
who is cruel to an animal, or does not provide for its welfare needs,
may be banned from owning animals, fined up to £20,000 and/or
sent to prison.

The Act which cost millions of pounds of
taxpayers to implement, seems to have had little or no impact on the
evil trade of puppy farming. If anything the situation appears to have
become worse, especially during the current economic crisis. Dealers
and breeders are jumping on the bandwagon to try and make easy money
and many local authorities are happy to grant pet shop licences for
private dwellings no matter how unsuitable. The result is that the
puppy farms are working overtime to supply dealers, pet shops and
private houses across the land.

Many people claiming benefits
see the breeding of puppies as a way to make some extra cash that
nobody will know about. A litter of pedigree pups could easily net them
as much as £10,000 and a bitch can have 2 litters a year. Why
would they want to work for a living?

We are supposedly a
national of animal lovers and yet we turn a blind eye to the appalling
cruelty suffered in puppy farms by breeding bitches, stud dogs and tiny
puppies that are kept in filthy, overcrowded conditions. Most breeding
bitches and stud dogs never see light of day, most are spent by the age
of 4-5 years and are disposed of - if they are lucky. Many puppies bred
by these establishments have hereditary defects, most suffer from
illnesses and a significant number die. How has the Welfare Act 2006
helped them?

In modern Britain, our companion pets have become
disposable items. You can buy a puppy as easy as buying a pint of milk,
we even have puppy supermarkets appearing in the UK where you can
purchase any type of pedigree puppy you desire. Of course they don't
disclose that your cute little puppy has come from a filthy disgusting
puppy farm. But todays cute puppy is tomorrows unwanted or abandoned
dog, left to its fate. Many of these unfortunate dogs will spend 7 days
in the dog pound unwanted, unloved and will then be put to sleep simply
because he or she is surplus to requirement.

Puppies should not
be sold from pet shops and the advertising of puppies in free papers,
newspapers and on the internet should be banned. The vast majority of
these adverts are from unscrupulous dealers or breeders who care
nothing about animal welfare only about the financial rewards. Local
authorities are responsible for handing out pet shop or breeders
licences to anyone that wants to breed with the one hand and then they
are destroying thousands of fit healthy but unwanted dogs on the other
hand

Dogs in Britain should be not be made to suffer in this
way, this is a national disgrace and Britain should be ashamed of
itself for allowing the evil puppy farming trade to thrive. If this
trade was stopped it would help solve the massive stray/unwanted dog
problem in the UK and we would see the end of the destruction of
thousands of unwanted dogs at the hands of the local authorities.

Please
could I ask that you look into why the Welfare Act has not put a stop
to the trade of the evil puppy farmer. Why has the RSPCA, the only
organisation with the powers to use the legislation, not acted to stamp
out the trade?

Please could you let me know what legislation is
planned to ensure that we as a nation, have to take a more responsible
attitude to the buying and care of pets. At the moment it is far too
easy to acquire a pet and even easier to mistreat it or dispose of it.

I appreciate your time in reading this and look forward to receiving a positive response.

http://germanshepherdrescue.freeforums.org/letter-t185.html

Subject: Re: help stop to puppy farming in 2009 Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:36 pm

i've copied it and will send it to local mp's etc tomorrow help stop to puppy farming in 2009 729386

Subject: Re: help stop to puppy farming in 2009 Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:45 am

Subject: Re: help stop to puppy farming in 2009 Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:27 am

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