Puppies To Parliament After Over 100,000 Sign Online Petition!

TV’s Marc Abraham creator of the PupAid petition TV Vet Marc Abraham’s anti-cruelty campaign reaches target A government e-petition against puppy farming, started by Brighton-based TV vet Marc Abraham in May, has just smashed its 100,000 target meaning a parliamentary debate will discuss puppy farming in the New Year. Marc’s puppy farming awareness campaign ‘PupAid’ is calling on the government to ‘Ban the sale of young puppies & kittens without their mothers being present’ and is now the biggest pet welfare petition of all time reaching its target of 100,000 in just six months (all petitions received and accepted by the government are given 12 months to reach this target). Vet Marc says “My PupAid team and I are incredibly proud and thankful to everyone who’s signed and shared the petition; achieving 100,000 signatures and securing the Commons debate is an important step in the fight against the UK’s cruel puppy farming trade. It also sends out a strong animal welfare message with Christmas fast-approaching and many children begging parents to buy puppies as presents.” Ricky Gervais tweet Ricky Gervais, one of PupAid’s many animal loving celebrity supporters (including Brian May, Liam Gallagher, Elle MacPherson and Jodie Marsh), tweeted on hearing the news (screengrab attached) “Great work… Puppy farming will be debated in Parliament!” Puppy farming is the commercial mass production of puppies in horrific conditions often with no clean water, quality food, medicine, or waste clearance. Commonly up to 200 breeding bitches and stud dogs are imprisoned in one of many large concrete agricultural sheds (usually in rural Wales), all just kept alive to make more puppies for large profits. Puppies are then transported long distances and sold by third parties including pet shops, websites, garden centres, puppy supermarkets, dealers, free newspaper listings; basically anywhere well-away from pup's mum and birthplace. These battery farmed dogs are often severely inbred suffering serious internal problems, then purchased complete with infectious diseases and behavioural issues, meaning that even if they survive the first week in their new home life expectancy is shortened with a future of health complaints costing hundreds (often thousands) of pounds to treat. Marc’s PupAid campaign hopes to stop demand for these poorly pups by raising much needed awareness about the correct way to choose a dog, i.e. adopt from rescue or ask "Where's Mum?" insisting on seeing her interacting with her pups. If you’d like to sign and share Marc’s e-petition visit: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/49528 (direct link), or to find out more about puppy farming visit www.pupaid.org; you can also follow @PupAid on Twitter, and Pup Aid on Facebook.

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