Some of my recent blogs have been based on the message we are trying to promote, i.e responsible dog ownership, and trying to educate the potential dog owner, into researching the breed, and breeder before making a life long commitment to owning a dog.
Recently I blogged about are we fighting a losing battle and are we a country of animal lovers, but when you read page 32 of yesterday’s Cork Independent, it’s easy at times to think we might be.
The ISPCA were called into a facility where a “young terrier dog was being kept in a disused deep freezer with a block of wood used to allow air ventilation and the tiniest amount of light through”
“It was made know to the ISPCA that the puppies bred on these premises were being sold at a country market”
Who in their right mind would buy a dog at a market ? In the UK pet stores that sell pups are constantly being harassed by the majority of the dog owning public to stop this practice, and the one or two pet stores in Ireland that did carry out this practice have since stopped.
Dogs are not a commodity like a suit or pair of shoes that you can exchange if they don’t match your lifestyle, so a “little” bit more consideration should go into the purchase of a dog, than buying off the shelf items.
There is a lot of hope out there that the dog breeders establishment bill, if finally signed off on will eradicate this kind of carry on, but you would wonder how far under the radar, some of these operators fly.
Another point is that if the 6 or more bitches are kept in OK conditions, the resulting offspring can still be sold at these country markets in Ireland, but that’s another days work.
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