For the Love of Frenchies by Pete Wicks

Author:Pete Wicks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Published: 2018-02-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Trouble in Store

The dark side of pedigree puppies

WHEN I WAS first introduced to Eric at the rescue centre I didn’t know the first thing about puppy trafficking or any of the issues surrounding pedigree dogs being imported into the UK. Hearing my pup’s story and how he would have suffered in the first weeks of his life on a puppy farm somewhere in Hungary was almost too much to bear. I imagined his mum still there, caged and condemned to a life sentence of torture as a breeding machine and I wanted to go out and grab hold of the people responsible along with the officials who, it seems to me, are allowing this cruel trade to continue. I couldn’t get it out of my head that this is how we are treating man’s best friend – for money. What an unbelievable betrayal of a dog’s trust.

I needed to know more.

In my opinion, when money is someone’s main motivator then they are capable of anything and cruelty becomes a quick way to get the job done and get the cash in their hands. Puppy smuggling is a multi-million-pound industry with layers of interested parties from the cesspit dwellers at the bottom of the pile who acquire the multiples of pedigree breeding bitches to start the sorry business, to the poor excuses for human beings who are the puppy ‘farmers’, dealers, transporters and sellers. There is corruption (and exchange of cash) at every level. My nan always said that the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil and I now know that dog trafficking is one of the evils that is thriving in our world today. The most frustrating thing about it is that it’s happening right in front of us, but we can’t see it.

Some of the puppies who end up on display for sale in pet shops, online websites or sold from private addresses could have found their way there from either legal or illegal puppy farms in the UK or overseas. Any pup that is being sold in an environment where you don’t get to see them interacting with their mum and away from its place of birth is likely to be sold by a third-party seller (not the breeder) and a victim of irresponsible breeding.

Nowadays so many pups are being brought in illegally from Eastern Europe and the numbers appear to be growing. Sticking to figures for a minute, some animal organisations claim that over a quarter of a million dogs travelled to Britain in 2016, which is three times more than in 2011. To me that increase is horrific! It’s totally out of order, especially when you hear how the dogs are kept before they even start their journey to be sold.

If you can bear to watch any of the footage captured by dog welfare teams acting undercover on legal or illegal puppy farms you will see the filthy conditions that the bitches and pups are forced to live in. Hidden

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