TW - Over 80 Dogs Found in House in Doncaster

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https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2025-04-18/over-80-dogs-found-living-in-filth-and-faeces-after-rspca-raid-on-house?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR7Iei6-zI-w2DuNQ5Id46FWEsG9MYLGFnE4VkDLTv1IVkfoKkPD3JDEwzatXw_aem_MGgUCzGFhgO8eb5TT_J_VQ

This just beggars belief. Those poor dogs who are now going to have to have homes found for them. Probably many of them inbred because presumably the ‘owner’ wasn’t breeding them responsibly.

I hope they face serious charges.

PP are talking about different cases which is why posters are getting confused, I think.

There's the case in the OP with a walker/sitter hoarding springer spaniels, another neglect case that happened in the UK with a different walker/sitter, and then the case @EdithStourton mentioned about in-bred dogs in the USA.

I said probably …

Some inbred dogs are surprisingly healthy. It's the luck of the genetic lottery.

The case I was referencing was in Billings, Montana, in about 2010. No knew new how related the dogs were, but the suspicion was, iirc that there had been some 1st degree relatives inbreeding. Some of the dogs went on to farm work, SAR, etc.

I only mentioned them to show that there can be outcomes for dogs found in appalling conditions. I didn't mean to cause confusion. Sorry.

"Some of the dogs went on to farm work, SAR, etc."
seems quite a lot less certain than:
"and virtually all of the dogs went on to happy lives in caring homes."

I am sure some inbred dogs are "surprisingly healthy" but out of the hundreds given in the example, you can bet your bottom dollar some were not and therefore not or less able to enjoy "happy lives". Not saying they shouldn't have been helped - or put to sleep if that was in their best interest - but to say "virtually all of the dogs went on to happy lives in caring homes," seems optimistic to me.

I mentioned it initially for the reasons above but I now question how helpful it is to post an example from 15 years ago in the US when the OP was about 80+dogs, mostly spaniels, in the UK in 2025. I know there are some SpanielAid people on here and I think they are finding it more and more difficult to find homes for surrendered dogs?
I think we need to be honest about the number of dogs that need homes and the number of suitable homes that are available.

@redboxer321
' "Some of the dogs went on to farm work, SAR, etc."
seems quite a lot less certain than:
"and virtually all of the dogs went on to happy lives in caring homes." '
Those are not at all contradictory statements:
SOME dogs went to working lives in caring homes.
MOST OF THE REST (possibly all, I don't know) went to non-working lives in caring homes.
Sorry to use caps, which always seems a bit shouty, but I wanted to be crystal clear.

I am sure some inbred dogs are "surprisingly healthy" but out of the hundreds given in the example, you can bet your bottom dollar some were not and therefore not or less able to enjoy "happy lives".
Not ALL of the dogs were inbred; the likelihood was that some were, and since the breeder kept no/inadequate records, all of the dogs were neutered iirc. Some had ongoing issues; many did not.

I followed the blog of one of the people who helped the dogs, and rehomed one of them herself, and also read some of the news articles (a lot of which are no longer available) so I am reasonably well-informed about this case.

I mentioned it initially for the reasons above but I now question how helpful it is to post an example from 15 years ago in the US when the OP was about 80+dogs, mostly spaniels, in the UK in 2025. I know there are some SpanielAid people on here and I think they are finding it more and more difficult to find homes for surrendered dogs?
All I was doing was making the observation that these dogs could quite possibly have happy lives in the future. Terrible as this case is, it doesn't mean that these dogs will have have miserable lives or have to be euthanised. Some of them are very likely to have issues; some of them might be difficult to rehome; that doesn't mean that they can't be helped, or that all of them will languish in kennels forever.
NB There was a recession at the point when the US dogs were being rescued and rehomed - the international financial situation was just as bad as it is now, if not worse. The US dogs were also an active, intelligent, high-drive breed.

A friend of mine fosters for a spaniel rescue. She has mentioned that they have a lot of dogs coming in, mostly Covid puppies gone wrong; she hasn't said anything about it taking longer to find homes, though I haven't asked her.

I think we need to be honest about the number of dogs that need homes and the number of suitable homes that are available.
Of course we do. But as I have said before, even if every dog that goes through rescue in the UK every year was to be rehomed, there would still be a massive demand for puppies.