The video you just watched is a puppy farm in Carmarthenshire a county in Wales where its estimated 24,000 pups are bred per year. Sometimes born into horrendous conditions the pups will only spend six weeks if that in these hell holes but their dams and sires are locked in for life !!

How many have heard of ‘Puppy Farms’? How many have even given thought to what the name entails? Obviously not many because these establishments continue to increase their output of puppies – ‘farmed’ in horrendous conditions to satisfy the want of the consumer and the greed of the ‘Puppy Farmer’.

These ‘puppy farms’ are found throughout the U.K. although research has found that the main problem areas are in Wales and both Northern Ireland and Eire. It is a known fact that conditions in some of the establishments in one Welsh county are absolutely horrendous. These dogs are kept 24 hours a day in cramped filthy conditions, small pet crates, boxes, or wire cages, not big enough for one, have two, three or even four dogs crammed into them. Puppies are born with hereditary defects and indiscriminately sold to pet-shops, dealers and through the internet. Some die at an early age from a hereditary illness or disease, leaving their owners’ distressed. Yet their kin will continue to be bred twice a year; for this is a money-making, consumer orientated, high profit- low outlay business.

There is no veterinary treatment for these dogs’, to keep costs down the ‘puppy farmers’ will treat his ‘stock’ himself. Mange, fleas and other painful skin conditions are generally treated by immersing into a ‘dip’ of harsh chemicals that, more often than not, burn the skin. older breeding stock tend to be ignored. Other ailments such as eye conditions, hernias, long nails growing into pads, superficial injuries tend to go untreated, even an unfortunate pup who catches and breaks a leg in a wire cage is likely to go unattended – she cannot be sold but is still able to be bred from herself. A breeding bitch of any age with a womb prolapse will be disposed of.

Once a breeding bitch has been bred until her body is unable to take any more, she will be ‘disposed’ of, her place being taken by one of her off-spring, maintaining the minimal cost of new ‘stock’. Under what guidelines of the Animal Welfare Act 2007 are these establishments inspected?

Who are these Council Inspectors and what qualifications must they hold to officially inspect a licensed breeding establishment?

Why is it that the RSPCA are not permitted to accompany said Inspectors?

Why is it that the RSPCA are not permitted to accompany said Inspectors?

How can an authority deny the conditions within these puppy farms?