Comments on: July Round-Up: Dog Shows & Puppy Farming News http://www.marcthevet.com/2009/08/july-round-up-dog-shows-puppy-farming-news/ Shaggy dog stories Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:07:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Karen Berry http://www.marcthevet.com/2009/08/july-round-up-dog-shows-puppy-farming-news/comment-page-1/#comment-904 Karen Berry Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:46:39 +0000 http://www.marcthevet.com/?p=686#comment-904 I had a bad experience with a Staffie purchased from Dogs4us in Manchester in 1996. We were told that the pup was born in wales, we later learned about the puppy farms in wales and realised that was probably where he came from he was so thin and didn't know how to play like a puppy. I recently wrote this poem inspired by my experience. The Puppy Farm. Where did I come from do you know, do you know where I was born. did I come from a nice warm home, or a puppy breeding farm. Did I come from nice people, who loved and cherished me, or from the ones that breed and breed, and care only for the fee. Did you buy me from a pet shop, where the tills ring out all day, where people on the slightest whim can take a pup away. Then the place I might have come from is called a puppy farm, its not a place with people its not snug and its not warm. Its an overcrowded outbuilding, a broken down old shed, where the female dogs are squashed in tight and bred and bred and bred. And when she's too old for breeding, and isn't worth the time, She'll be tossed away and left to die, in filthy dirt and grime. Without another thought for her, they'll start it all again. another day another bitch another thousand pounds. The pups if they survive that long, are sold on to a man, he comes to take the pups away and locks them in a van. He drives for miles it's freezing cold the puppies start to shake. but the man just keeps on driving those poor pups don't get a break. When the van is opened some of the pups have died, all the rest are huddled up they're scared they want to hide. They're put into a nice warm pen with sawdust on the floor and people come and look at them through a locked glass door. Two people came one day and carried me away and the lady tucked me up so I was warm they gave me food and care and my love I learned to share and was loyal to them till the very end. Fortunately we had a happy ending, we had our Staffie Bruno for eleven years the happy ending in the poem relates to Bruno.Unfortunately that is not always the case and something needs to be done. Dogs4us should be banned from selling puppies as they are keeping the puppy farmers in business. I remember That's life doing a piece on dogs4us in Manchester when it was known as Mayfield Kennels,and every now and then someting comes up about them getting puppies from puppy farms.Lets hope something is achieved this time. I had a bad experience with a Staffie purchased from Dogs4us in Manchester in 1996.
We were told that the pup was born in wales, we later learned about the puppy farms in wales and realised that was probably where he came from he was so thin and didn’t know how to play like a puppy.
I recently wrote this poem inspired by my experience.

The Puppy Farm.

Where did I come from do you know,
do you know where I was born.
did I come from a nice warm home,
or a puppy breeding farm.

Did I come from nice people,
who loved and cherished me,
or from the ones that breed and breed,
and care only for the fee.

Did you buy me from a pet shop,
where the tills ring out all day,
where people on the slightest whim
can take a pup away.

Then the place I might have come from
is called a puppy farm,
its not a place with people
its not snug and its not warm.

Its an overcrowded outbuilding,
a broken down old shed,
where the female dogs are squashed in tight
and bred and bred and bred.

And when she’s too old for breeding,
and isn’t worth the time,
She’ll be tossed away and left to die,
in filthy dirt and grime.

Without another thought for her,
they’ll start it all again.
another day another bitch
another thousand pounds.

The pups if they survive that long,
are sold on to a man,
he comes to take the pups away
and locks them in a van.

He drives for miles it’s freezing cold
the puppies start to shake.
but the man just keeps on driving
those poor pups don’t get a break.

When the van is opened
some of the pups have died,
all the rest are huddled up
they’re scared they want to hide.

They’re put into a nice warm pen
with sawdust on the floor
and people come and look at them
through a locked glass door.

Two people came one day
and carried me away
and the lady tucked me up so I was warm
they gave me food and care
and my love I learned to share
and was loyal to them till the very end.

Fortunately we had a happy ending, we had our Staffie Bruno for eleven years the happy ending in the poem relates to Bruno.Unfortunately that is not always the case and something needs to be done. Dogs4us should be banned from selling puppies as they are keeping the puppy farmers in business.
I remember That’s life doing a piece on dogs4us in Manchester when it was known as Mayfield Kennels,and every now and then someting comes up about them getting puppies from puppy farms.Lets hope something is achieved this time.

]]> By: suzanne jones http://www.marcthevet.com/2009/08/july-round-up-dog-shows-puppy-farming-news/comment-page-1/#comment-898 suzanne jones Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:34:26 +0000 http://www.marcthevet.com/?p=686#comment-898 Good artical with highs and lows thanks Mark We are all now working hard to get rid of puppy farming and I hope also bad breeding by one time breeders many folk have been trying for years to stop puppy farming this time we must achive our goal for the sake for the dogs suffering now and the ones yet to be concieved Good artical with highs and lows thanks Mark We are all now working hard to get rid of puppy farming and I hope also bad breeding by one time breeders many folk have been trying for years to stop puppy farming this time we must achive our goal for the sake for the dogs suffering now and the ones yet to be concieved

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