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If you buy a cheap, quickly available dog off a free sales site, even if you are consciously 'rescuing' what you know to be a puppy farmed dog, you could be funding organised crime.
Be patient, support the people doing things right and if you have concerns, contact the authorities and let them do their thing.
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'The barrister said all the evidence gathered as part of Operation Earth showed the McDonaghs were advertising pups for sale on four of the main puppy selling sites – FreeAds, Pets4Homes, Preloved, and Gumtree – and the adverts were worded to make it appear that the dogs were from home-bred litters and were socialised and healthy puppies when in reality the defendants were trading puppies and dogs "like commodities with no care for their health or welfare". '
Be patient, support the people doing things right and if you have concerns, contact the authorities and let them do their thing.
Family made £300,000 in huge illegal puppy-selling scam
The McDonagh family was bringing in puppies from across Europe and conning buyers into thinking they were family pets being put up for sale
'The barrister said all the evidence gathered as part of Operation Earth showed the McDonaghs were advertising pups for sale on four of the main puppy selling sites – FreeAds, Pets4Homes, Preloved, and Gumtree – and the adverts were worded to make it appear that the dogs were from home-bred litters and were socialised and healthy puppies when in reality the defendants were trading puppies and dogs "like commodities with no care for their health or welfare". '