Puppy farms are the hidden business behind the pet shop window. They are breeding farms where thousands of dogs are kept imprisoned for life churning out puppies to supply the pet shop industry.
Most puppy farms have between 200-300 female dogs and approximately 50 male dogs. The farms employ minimal staff to keep wages down and only feed the dogs once every second day. Veterinary treatment is rarely provided, as this is another expense. Some of the puppies are put aside to replace the sick, injured or old breeding stock. Female dogs come into season at approximately 6 months of age so this is when they start breeding. They are not rested in between cycles and are kept in a continual cycle of pregnancy. The dogs are kept in small pens their entire lives and spend their days ceaselessly pacing back and forth, the only way of coping with their despair. These intelligent animals are never walked, socialised or given any love; they are simply breeding machines.
The puppies are weaned from their mothers between 4 and 5 weeks and then transported to pet shops to be displayed to the unsuspecting public. Pet shop owners depend on love at first sight because it prompts people to make an impulsive purchase. What the consumer can’t see is the puppy’s mother imprisoned miles away.
Early January 2010 ALV’s Openrescue team investigated a puppy farm near Lancefield Victoria. A number of dogs who required urgent veterinary attention were rescued.
The list of ailments the dogs suffered was extensive, including:
Severe matting
Ear infections
Gum disease
Rotten teeth
Grass seed abscesses
Dogs so severely malnourished their irritated skin was like paper
Grossly underweight
Days later approximately 10 police raided Debra Tranters house. They had a search warrant. They seized Oscar (one of the rescued dogs) and returned him to his abusers.
ACA/Banksia Park Puppy Farm - Using Electric Fences
As if breeding dogs back to back until they are no longer 'profitable' then killing them isn't cruel enough, ACA/ Banksia Park have now installed electric wires around their pens to shock them when they try desperately to dig out. Watch the video below and then please email the Mayor of Wellington Shire Council, Scott Rossetti. Tell him this has to stop. Email: scott.rossetti@wellington.vic.gov.au
RUTLAND MANOR EXPOSED
Your help is desperately needed!
ALV’s Prisoners For Profit Campaign has been investigating Rutland Manor puppy farm and has uncovered years of violations to the Code of Practice for Breeding and Rearing Establishments including:
Back to back breeding of the dogs with no rest in between litters.
Underage breeding of dogs from as young as 8 months.
“Rescued” dog from a pound being used as a breeding machine and her 55 puppies sold for up to $2,000 with a fake pedigree.
Illegal debarking of dogs.
Beverley Manners - "Founder of the Rutland Manor Labradoodle Breeding & Research Centre in Australia", claims that the dogs she breeds live in a "picturesque five acre complex" and have "plenty of freestyle romping together in their sheltered parks" (from her own website). However ALV's Prisoners For Profit Campaign has revealed that nothing could be further from the truth.
Rutland Manor sells puppies over the internet and exports to 23 countries, mainly to the USA and UK. Council have so far failed to enforce the mandatory Code of Practice and the dogs need your help now.
Ask him to revoke Rutland Manors permit due to years of violations to the Code. This puppy farm has been operating for 22 years it's time it was stopped. More information on this investigation can be viewed at: http://www.prisonersforprofit.org/ and http://stoprutlandmanor.wordpress.com/
If you are horrified by the numbers of cats and dogs killed, then you MUST support Sydney Mayor and Independant MP Clover Moore’s efforts to get the Animals (Regulation of Sales) Bill 2007 passed through the NSW Parliament. Please visit www.DEATHROWPETS.net
The Puppy Mill
The Puppy Mill is a documentary that explores the domestication of dogs and how our demand for the ultimate family pet has led to increasingly inhumane treatment.
Featuring ALV"s undercover footage of Victorian puppy farms. www.thepuppymill.com.au
Most puppy farms have between 200-300 female dogs and approximately 50 male dogs. The farms employ minimal staff to keep wages down and only feed the dogs once every second day. Veterinary treatment is rarely provided, as this is another expense. Some of the puppies are put aside to replace the sick, injured or old breeding stock. Female dogs come into season at approximately 6 months of age so this is when they start breeding. They are not rested in between cycles and are kept in a continual cycle of pregnancy. The dogs are kept in small pens their entire lives and spend their days ceaselessly pacing back and forth, the only way of coping with their despair. These intelligent animals are never walked, socialised or given any love; they are simply breeding machines.
