Breeding is a cruel business

Aug 13 2009 Buckinghamshire Advertiser

ANYONE who watched Five News's undercover investigation into puppy farming would have been shocked by the depressing and cruel conditions in which breeding dogs are kept.

Barren, dark pens house mother dogs, who are repeatedly made pregnant until they are spent.

Their offspring end up in pet shops, where they are sold to people who are unaware of the suffering involved in this industry, which has profit and not the welfare of animals at its core. What many readers may not have considered is for every pet produced by a breeder and sold through a pet shop or private advert, another animal in a shelter is denied a loving home.

Anyone who can should always rescue one from a shelter and not buy from a breeder. Battersea Dogs' Home and the Celia Hammond Animal Trust are excellent places to start.

FIONA PEREIRA by email

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