Puppy Alert

Puppy Farm Puppies-Dealers-Pet Shops

 

The end product of the puppy farm trade, a sad looking puppy offered for sale in a Manchester superstore. 

Was the puppy treated by a vet before being offered for sale to the public with a noticably watery eye?

HIGHLIGHTING THE

CRUEL PUPPY TRADE

Puppy Alert was established to educate and enlighten the public on the unscrupulous trade known as puppy farming 

To conduct research into the supply of puppies from multi-breed kennels by licensed and unlicensed breeders refered to as puppy farmers.  The  dealers and agents that buy their puppies and the pet shops and pet shop licence holders that they sell their puppies to.

My interest into puppies sold from pet shops began when I owned a puppy that was sold from an outlet with a pet shop licence. His name was Jake.

JAKE - Read our story.

Please click on link below:

Jake:  My own experience

A true account of my experiences, leading to the trauma of owning a dog suffering from ‘rage syndrome’.   From the unpredictable attacks, to the difficult decision of accepting  euthanasia as the only option.  Followed by  my efforts to enlighten others of the horrors of puppy farming and the clandestine trading connection between by dog breeders, dealers and retail outlets.

Puppy Farming - Dealers- Pets shops

Sadly, throughout Britain and Eire 'puppy farming'  is rife, operating from both licensed and unlicensed premises. Breeding bitches are frequently bred from each season and spend their lives in either solitary confinement or  overcrowded conditions.  Often forced each season to produce excessive quantities of puppies for the pet trade, estimated at over 100,000 plus every year, often with inadequate veterinary care or intervention.

Purchasers of these puppies often find that within a few days the puppy is sick and needs urgent veterinary treatment. Some puppies suffer so badly that even with veterinary intervention this has  failed to save the puppy.  The puppy, just a few months old  has died or the vet treating the puppy has advised the owners that the only humantarian option is, sadly, euthanasia.  This  leaves the owner traumatized through the loss of a puppy, made particulary difficult if there are children in the family. 

Puppies can be  expensive to purchase,  if  a puppy becomes ill shortly after purchase, unexpected veterinary fees  occur and constantly rise in an effort to try to save the puppy.  It becomes  a very expensive experience and one that is not  easily forgotton, particulary so if the vets efforts to save the puppy have failed.   

Puppies sold from pet shops are often found to be suffering from common ailments and disease. Behaviour, temperament problems, hereditary conditions may become noticable as the puppy matures.  Many ailments and diseases  stem from the low standards of animal husbandry at the breeding establishments and irresponsible breeding practices.

Even if the dog breeding premises supplying the puppies to the pet shop is licensed it does not necessarily mean the premises are well run and the dogs healthy.   The dogs used for breeding are usually not health screened for hereditary diseases known in the breed they are selling to the dealers.  Their progeny may also carry faulty genes and the  long term health of the puppies could be effected. 

If you have purchased a puppy from a pet shop, multi-breed kennel, or 'agent' offering numerious breeds of puppies for sale and the puppy has become sick or died shortly after purchase.  Puppy alert would like to hear from you

Please contact: 

puppyalert@btinternet.com

We also strongly advise you to contact the Council Environmental Health Department and Trading Standards covering the area that the puppy was purchased from.

Consumer Direct is a government-funded advise service that offers pre-shopping tips, information on consumer rights and practicle advice on consumer issues. Information provided to Consumer Direct is shared with local authority Trading Standards Services who may be able to take action agaist traders who persistently breach consumer laws.

Consumer Direct can be contacted on 08454 04 05 06

 http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/

They will pass information received from purchasers of puppies to the relevent Trading Standards department of the area that the puppy was purchased from.

Both Council and Trading Standards departments have enforcement officers, responsible for licensing premises and ensuring that traders offer 'good practice and fair trading’. They must take your complaint seriously.

They can prosecute for unlicensed trading and close premises down – but cannot act without information and evidence of  malpractice.

If you would like any further help or advice, then please do not hesitate to contact us - via email details on the web site. We will treat all information as confidential and ask your permission before releasing information. Although we hope you will allow Puppy Alert to pass this information onto the relevant authorities. 

If you are not sure what steps you can take and who to contact regarding the purchase of a sick puppy we can advise you.  In most cases you as a consumer are covered by the Sale of Goods Act 1979

Help us to stop puppy farming and the selling of puppies from retail outlets. Please do not purchase a puppy from these undesirable sources. For every puppy sold another is born to take its place and so the trade continues…

 Remember, stop, think and walk away

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If you are still not convinced then please read what others who write about puppy farming have to say on their web sites.  Maybe join the forum on dogs-r-us and read what other purchasers of sick puppies have to say too.  

http://www.dogs-r-us.org/