What you can do
Contact us if you have purchased a sick puppy giving us details of seller. Also contact Trading Standards and the local council who license the seller. Other ways to help are listed below.
1. Contact your local council and ask for details of:-
They should give you the full name and address of these premises,plus for dog breeders, the number of dogs they are licensed to have, and for pet shops, what animals they are licensed to sell.
While writing to them, please also ask the last dates that these premises were inspected and the results of the inspection.
You can find out details of your local authority here.
Please e-mail this information to us.
2. Watch the Channel 5 puppy farm investigation and forward it to all your friends.
With our help Channel 5 exposed pet shop "Dogs 4 Us", which has branches in Manchester and Leeds, as retailers of sick puppy farm puppies. See the film here: investigations
There are many pets shops in the UK selling puppies from puppy farms, so long as puppy farmers have this vehicle to sell puppies they will continue to subject dogs to this suffering. Pet shops must be stopped from selling puppies.
3. Join a protest near you – or organise your own
Find out what's going on in your area by visiting the Puppy Love forum.
These protests have successfully convinced pet shops to stop selling puppies, so please join if you can or organise your own.
4. Raise public awareness in your area
Download posters and fliers to hand out in your area. You can also write to your local paper to explain the issues, ask people to adopt from shelters and ask them to get involved.
5. Support your local animal shelter
They have to deal with the non-stop flow of unwanted animals and need all the help they can get. They are always in need of volunteers and donations so please help if you can.
6. Contact your local MP
Tell them your concerns about dog breeding, puppy farms and the rise of stray dogs in the UK and ask them what they are doing about it.
You can find and send message to your MP here: http://findyourmp.parliament.uk/
If you would like to get more involved, please e-mail us here.