Britain's secret shelters for smuggled puppies come under siege from European gangsters | Daily Mail Online Could you spot a puppy farm? Could you spot a puppy farm? - PDSA Buying a puppy safely. Animal Welfare Site (buyapuppysafely.org)
Absolutely heartbreaking. So much theft and cruelty to animals this year, and so distressing to read about it.
Sadly the message isn’t getting through, if people didn’t buy these puppies these places wouldn’t exist I will never understand why people pay £1000’s to someone they don't know for a puppy they have never seen because it sounds like a good deal or in fashion.
If nothing else deterred them, you would think that all the tales of people being swindled out of their money would put them off. Buying over the internet and being told to collect from a non existent address. One that I heard about had travelled from the North East to Greater London.
The Mail had an article back in August about the increase in the cost of puppies due to more people wanting dogs due to the lockdown. How cost of a puppy has nearly doubled during lockdown | Daily Mail Online People just do not seem to care how much or from where a puppy comes - they just want one.
Easy come easy go. Hundreds of pets are being abandoned as owners who bought during pandemic struggle to cope | Daily Mail Online
