BBC 1 - Puppy Farm

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I have just watched something on the bbc re puppy farms, oh my goodness i am absolutely fuming! how can this be allowed to happen? why is nothing done about it!

Had to write this i was sooo mad!
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Yep it's disgusting, not sure if it is a repeat of the other night....that puppy farm is on my door step and they have had hell off my mam, they hate her guts
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and she went on tv to slate them
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But people need to be educated to STAY away and stop filling the pockets of pupy farmers, no matter how cute the pups look
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Its absolutely DISGUSTING i couldnt believe my eyes the dogs looked so sad as though they were asking for help!
People can be so nieve sometimes!
 
When I was about ten, we went on holiday to West Wales. I have photos of us visiting some strange attraction where kids could go on a jeep trek, visit a petting zoo, and then see the stables where the puppies were kept. Obviously it was a puppy farm, and even though we were all so naive (they had pups "ready to go") I will never forget the rows of mini stables inside which were scores of scared-looking dogs (mostly Border Collies and terriers) living in filthy conditions. Different era, I guess, but we swore never to go back and felt terrible about the whole thing.
 
I suprised people are so blind to the fact they exsist!
When the word puppy farm is mentioned, I bet the majority think of lots of pups romping and playing on a nice clean farm.
Yeah right.......

Good for the 1 show, good for your mum Cayla, and hopefully it will show people that if you buy from a place like this, you are not saving the puppy in question.....you are simply condeming more to die!
 
Didn't see the programme but glad it is getting air time. I agree about the image puppy farm conjures up, I read recently someone referring to them as "battery puppies", gives a far truer image of what exactly these places are like for the poor dogs.
 
I remember a bloke on TV news representing 'responsible breeders' and he was standing in front of rows upon rows upon rows of those stalls, in a big shed, each full of litters of different breeds.
What, responsible?!
 
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Didn't see the programme but glad it is getting air time. I agree about the image puppy farm conjures up, I read recently someone referring to them as "battery puppies", gives a far truer image of what exactly these places are like for the poor dogs.

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Absolutely. I worked on a farm one summer as a teen, which had free-range animals of every kind apart from the battery chickens. Must admit, I haven't eaten a non-organic chicken since.

Today I found out that Prince came from a breeder in Michigan. Seeing as the go-between is a large pet store in Florida, you can bet your bottom dollar that he is from a puppy mill. I can hardly bring myself to think about his poor mother
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I think Henry might have come from a puppy farm and to be honest I don't like to think about it much
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I think there needs to be a much more concerted effort from the charities to campaign on this - at the moment it all seems very fragmented.

There needs to be MUCH better enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act as well from local authorities.

And finally and most importantly - people need to STOP buying these puppies
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And finally and most importantly - people need to STOP buying these puppies
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And thats the message that needs getting across. While there are bleeding hearts out there who think by buying these poor puppies they are helping, there will always be a demand to supply for
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It was the faces of the dogs that just got me they looked so scared and sorry - how these people can does this i will never know.
DEFRA &/or whoever is responsible for enforcement need to get off their backsides and do something about it.
The footage was so upsetting but exactly what people need to see - if anyone can.
/did turn a blind eye to that then they have no compassion.
i already support and charity which try hard to shut these places down but at the end of the day they have no powers to enforce the law, its so frustrating!
Am sorry to go on and on am just so mad
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When wrote another reply today I decided I prefer using puppy mills, after all, what they do is to churn out as many puppies as possible, so puppy mill seems to be a accurate name on their business, but so does battery puppies.


I agree 100% about that people need to be educated about that saving one = condemning more to misery. The problem is, as some of us discussed on a recent thread that the puppy mills adapt to people knowing they should not buy from puppy mills, they know that it matters less that the puppies is bred under bad conditions if they also looks mistreated, that makes people feel they have to save so or so puppy and the puppy mill still gets their money.



Although another problem that I've thought about, is the part rescues might play. E.g. on DogsFriends site they have three ex brood bitches on their adoption page that puppy mills have ''given'' to their rescue, on Many Tears site I lost count on the number of ex brood bitches and ex stud dogs that puppy mills have ''given'' to their rescue.
But if a rescue accepts these ''gifts'' in the form of old or non profitable brood bitches/stud dogs, what stops the puppy mill from filling up their new void with a new or more profitable brood bitch/stud dog = more puppy mill puppies?


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