Come l’Irlanda è diventata la capitale agricola di cuccioli del mondo allevatori senza scrupoli e autorizzati è in incasso su una domanda globale di designer e cani pedigree, con animali domestici spediti fino all’Europa e in Asia
https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/puppy-farm-ireland-breeding-capital-lw69wcvnz
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>It’s almost 3am, and the freezing cold wind slices across the tarmac outside the freight company at Dublin airport. Two large crates sit on the tarmac, their contents obscured by darkness. One sound cuts through the roar of forklifts and planes waiting to take off: puppies yelping. Inside the crates, three young golden retrievers huddle, trembling. Their journey tonight will take them to Singapore, where wealthy buyers will pay up to €8,000 for a purebred young dog. It’s a lucrative trade — and one that Irish puppy farmers are eager to exploit.
>These are just three of the estimated 30,000 dogs bred by puppy farms across Ireland each year to meet the insatiable demand for designer pets in Ireland, Britain, continental Europe and Asia.
>Ireland has quietly become the biggest producer of puppies in Europe. For over a year, The Sunday Times has tracked advertisements, dealers and even shipments of dogs that have been flown to cities across the globe.
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>Puppies themselves are sold through an assortment of means but the majority are sold online through [Dogs.ie](http://Dogs.ie), a website run by Paul Savage, a web programmer and IT consultant originally from Cork who now lives in Massachusetts in the US.
>Puppy farmers began to flock to his website after rivals such as DoneDeal and Gumtree stopped accepting advertisements, leaving [Dogs.ie](http://Dogs.ie) as the primary marketplace for breeders and buyers. Savage confirmed to this newspaper that the website followed all laws and instructed breeders to do the same.
>An indication of the pure scale of Ireland’s puppy trade can be seen in the activity on Dogs.ie. Last year, 25,770 dogs and puppies were advertised on the site. The site’s traffic reflects the high demand, with 2,842,622 visitors each month.
I would like one of the parties to heavily legislate pet ownership. Absolutely no more private breeding, no dog selling without a licence and strict enforcement and integrate it with the veterinary association.
The amount of people getting and then not being able to keep dogs has created a need to change how pets are obtained. This will allow greater restriction on breeds also.
Within 5 years, every pet should be subject to track and trace and chipping. You get a pet and can’t keep it – you are responsible for the entire cost of rehousing / destruction.
And all pets that don’t have an owner – I’m sorry, euthanise them because we can’t afford it and it’s essentially waste. I love dogs, but we need to be realistic.
All the people currently working in dog shelters, should be employed at the front end of dog ownership administrating the above, instead of scrambling to deal with the mountain of abandoned pets from the current system.
I’m surprised this hasn’t happened yet.
Ireland has such a shocking reputation worldwide with dog rescue orgs. And I’m convinced the reason we don’t act on this is because of the bizarre deference to dog racing.
You’d wonder how so many blind eyes are turned to this kind of thing. It’s not as if the general public isn’t appalled by it, yet there’s a political foot dragging on animal welfare that really can be quite shocking.
The state’s deference to dog racing is really weird too.
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Its a subscription site, Curious to know they report the attitude of Irish Kennel Club. They are responsible for registration of breeds for which they make serious income (22 euro per puppy, 35 euro for export certificate, pedigree printout 7 euro) if the figures quoted are anywhere nearly accurate.
On a historical note during the height of the Roman Empire merchants came to Ireland to buy wolfhounds for the wealthy elite. I assume there were dog breeders then dotted around the Liffey and other estuaries in the south east.