The Truth about Ireland’s Puppy Farm’s
In my opinion all responsible breeders will make house checks on potential buyers before adding them to their puppy list. That is unless they live in another country, and have major credentials or come highly recommended by somebody you trust.
Also responsible breeders will have the purchaser of one of their pups sign a puppy contract, and one point on the contract would read, that if the person buying was unable to take care of the dog for whatever reason they must get back in contact with the breeder to give them first choice in taking the dog back or find a suitable home for same.
Therefore, it is in my opinion very unlikely, for the pups bred by a responsible breeder to end up in a pound or rescue.
I state this as tonight at 2200 hrs on TV3 Animal A&E Investigates The Truth about Ireland’s Puppy Farm’s and I have seen statements like the following appearing on some of the social networks sites re same
“to all the people out there that BUY dogs rather than adopt,take a good look at this and please don’t claim to be a dog lover.”
At the recent Pet Expo we had over 50 Pedigree Dog breeds represented by the most passionate dog lovers in the country, that gave up their time to educate Joe public about their respective breeds giving relevant information on exercise,training,grooming,feeding and housing requirements of the breed
The likes of the Emerald Isle Newfoundland Club who represented their breed, run a very successful rescue, as do a lot of breed clubs in Ireland.
Based on statements like the above it looks like programmes like the above turn dog lovers against dog lovers, and into something of a rescue dog versus pedigree dog debate.
What we all should do is turn our attention on to the real villains in this story, the puppy farmers, and work together to create enough pressure and heat to drive them out of business.
Lets see what the programme brings, and any actions that is taken as a result.
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I think the programme is unbiased and well put together. As you know Paul other publications and sites selling dogs are causing a lot of this problem by facilitating these breeders of crossbreeds, so called ‘designer’ dogs and others that are bred in poor conditions. I certainly hope that this programme does make a big impact and would hope that decent breeders use your own site if they need to advertise puppies.
I thought the programme was a step in the right direction but just didn’t go near far enough. Without having read the dog breeding bill – i’m scared that it will place too much emphasis on enforcement with local authorities who have neither the skill, expertise, resources or time to make a difference. Without proper adequate funding provided from central government, any legislation introduced will only be another exercise in pushing paper.