Protest against Dogs4Us - Leeds & Manchester

Event published by Alinka

Event date: September 18, 2011 13:00

Tagged as: animal_liberation

Places: leeds manchester

As part of international day against puppy farms, there will be two demos, one in Leeds and one in Manchester.

Puppy farms are large scale commercial breeding businesses. They breed dogs in appaling conditions, without access to proper excercise outdoors, it's like battery farming, but for dogs. The female dogs ar eisolated nad given enough food adnwater to continue to breed, there is no excercise, stimulation or affection. No toys, no bedding on the concrete floor, no one to play with. They are used to breed continuously until they are worn out, then they are killed.

Dogs4Us is a 'puppy superstore' selling very young puppies. The puppies are kept in small tiled rooms with no windows, no soft bedding and often no toys at all to play with. Meanwhile the shop element of the 'superstore' at the front of the building is choc-a-bloc with hundreds of toys and aisles of soft bedding (all, of course, for you to buy once you have purchased an expensive puppy from them) but the puppies kept there have nothing to play with and only a large blue plastic box to sleep in. There is no daylight at the back of the shop where the puppies are kept. 

At the Leeds branch there is no seemingly outdoor space for the puppies to be taken out to excercise and the animals often look frightened or bored.

Seeing these puppies so neglected and so young (the Leed store has signs up saying that some of the puppies aren't ready to be homed yet. So surely they are not ready to be away from their mother either?) it is easy to be sucked in and think that it wil lbe ebtter to get the puppy out of there, so it can at least have a happy life with you. But however well-meaning, this fuels the trade in farmed dogs. Please, don't buy a dog from a pet shop, they are almost always from puppy farms.

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