By Barbara Cartwright | CEO
Another puppy mill has been found and shut down in Canada in the city of Windsor, Ontario. Charges of animal abuses are pending against the person who kept the mothers in disgusting conditions and who abandoned the dogs around the city rather than have them found during an investigation.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/puppy-mill-windsor-1.3632312
Thanks to your donations CFHS is working hard to ensure that Canada’s outdated animal welfare laws are changed to ensure that these abusers can be charged and that they cannot move from province to province and set up new shops. This however is only one part of the work we must do.
The raising and breeding of dogs in substandard breeding operations results in terrible suffering for dogs being bred, as well as poor health, welfare, and socialization of the puppies produced, which may lead to their relinquishment and euthanasia. When animals are seized from a puppy mill, animal welfare and enforcement organizations invest tremendous resources for rehabilitation and rehoming. Dog breeding remains under-regulated, if not unregulated, throughout Canada.
Our goal is to create a report that will explore the scope and scale of the problem, consider the challenges in protecting puppy mill dogs, and identify solutions.
This report would be a comprehensive reference document about substandard breeding in Canada, including:
Why is your continued support necessary for this project? We have not hit our funding goal and as a result we have not been able to make the progress we need to make in this area. This report will inform the development of a strategy on puppy mills that will include raising the profile of the issue and advocating for meaningful action on the part of all relevant authorities. Our members can use the report to approach decision-makers to advocate for stronger legislation and other solutions/tools to prevent the unethical sourcing of dogs.
Better regulation of breeding operations and practices is needed, as are resources for enforcement. Advocating for improvements to regulation and resources will require evidence and strong arguments to sway decision-makers. An investigation of the scale of online puppy sales in Canada would provide a first estimate of the number of irresponsible breeders in Canada as a step towards identifying the scale of the issue and the number of animals implicated.
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