Breeding a dog

[Mulch]

My mum's neighbour had bought a pug especially to breed. He has no experience or interest in dogs, it's purely money motivated. She's outside most of day, they never walk her. I don't know what I'm expecting people to say but it's just terribly sad. She has shelter and water, food ect is there anything that can be done?

Has not had

Unfortunately there is very little that can be done. The RSPCA won't be interested if she's got food, water and shelter.

The only options I can suggest is, once she's actually selling puppies, to shop her to HMRC (as if he's making money he should be declaring it) and also check at what point your local council requires breeders to have a licence. The vast majority of councils only require it for five or more litters but there are a couple I think who require any breeder to be licensed.

All the time there's no regulations in relations to who is allowed to breeder dogs this sort of thing will continue.

Horrible.

Sadly nothing at all you can do, but agree with looking out for puppies being sold and letting HMRC know - it's the one way you can get back at the scum.

As the value of designer pups goes up this kind of behaviour is going to be more common. I recently fostered a Gumtree FTGH dog of a quite desirable breed - most of the calls the owner had were from people who wanted her for breeding.

Last week I collected a pair of small breed dogs who had been kept in an outside run and bred from for 8-10 years. Their vet bills will run into thousands due to neglect and overbreeding, while the 'owners' sold pups from a 'nice family home' raking in several thousand cash in hand per litter.

Words cannot express how angry these people make me feel.

Doubt he'll have the dog long, a few litters and she'll be rehomed. I have a Boston that had had 4 litters of puppies by the time I got her at 4years old and even though she'd made some bastards tens of thousands she had lots of untreated health issues. I'd second letting HMRC know just to make things difficult for him and hopeful deter him. Pugs aren't suited to being kept in a garden- poor thing.

Poor little girl, this is so sad. Humans do not always serve our fellow animals well. Maybe you can get into conversation with NDN and try and suggest humane and kindly treatment especially as he hopes to benefit from her financially.

Pugs have been massively overbred indiscriminately, the registration figures are horrendous, purely for fashion.

Her one hope is that you are there and hopefully you can have an influence for the good

I think hmrc is a good idea, they are on disability benefits. I'm not one to get involved in other peoples affairs but it really saddens me. I've got what was once their cat. Similar treatment locked out all the time, never saw a vet, he was going to give her rspca but my mum took her in and she didn't get on with other pets so came to me. He had a staffy before and just let it into the street when he'd had enough. Scary that someone like him can keep getting pets. We asked why he got the pug after such a poor track record and he blatantly said it was to finance a holiday

This makes me so angry. Places like preloved, pets4homes and gumtree are littered with puppies for astronomical asking prices (especially the pugs, whateverpoos and doodles.) This of course is the motivation for such indiscriminate irresponsible breeding and while there is money in it - this will continue.
To get a rescue dog - the rescue organisations (quite rightly) want chapter and verse of your home circumstances yet anyone can go out and buy a vulnerable little 12 week old puppy with no such checks.
All breeders should be licenced or their dogs seized and rehomed IMO.

Christ that's horrible.

So once this poor little dog has financed his holiday is he going to just chuck her out on the street, that's if she survives the birth, given how many health problems she's likely to have being a pug and no doubt coming from a puppy farm herself.

Horrible excuse for a human being.

In a nutshell, its thoroughly depressing. We can see her from my mums house and garden. Dont think shes ever been on a walk

Wait till he's out and take her....take to a shelter and say you found her.poor mite

If you take her the puppy farmer will just get another, sadly.