The initiative called „Welpen sind keine Ware” or „Puppies are not commodities,” involving the VDH, the German Kennel Club, the TASSO, the German animal welfare organization, and the DOGS Magazine exposes and reveals the facts behind the secret backgrounds of illegal puppy trade to the public.
An organized business
Behind the illegal trade of young dogs often stands a highly organized gang. Although there are private groups (individuals) who want to make some money from illegal animal sales, the biggest problem is that these providers conduct dog trading on a large scale and focus their business on organized breeding. While serious and motivated breeders carefully consider which animals to use for breeding, large corporations come in aiming exclusively for mass production. The various female animals are only needed to produce as many offspring as possible as often as possible.
The puppies born mean nothing more than a monetary (financial) commodity to the producers. They seek buyers for them as soon as possible. The necessary connection with the mother or the young animal’s general development is of no importance. At the same time, the breeders are very well aware that origin is a measure for many buyers, so they advertise the animals intended for sale as having received proper upbringing in a loving family environment closely connected with their mother. But this, too, is just as much a lie as the explanation of prescribed complete health care. Since vaccinations and veterinary care reduce the desired profit or earnings, the providers have to handle that themselves. Very often, buyers only find out later that all documents are forged. Sometimes it is very difficult to prove the forgery, as in several cases it was uncovered that veterinarians cooperated with organized gangs in falsifications.
When a dealer voluntarily offers a puppy directly to the buyer, it has nothing to do with kindness. Firstly, the risk that the prospective buyer discovers the truth during a visit to the farm decreases. Secondly, such deliveries or handovers often happen using public transportation, because not only one sold dog travels in the car or small truck. Many puppies thus reach future owners at the same time. The sold puppies often travel several hundred kilometers on exhausting journeys before arriving at the buyer.
In the past, German Great Dane lovers were attracted by the low prices of puppies that could be imported from Eastern Europe. Instead of searching for honest breeders on the internet, they preferred to visit dog markets in neighboring countries where they could buy dogs for cheap money. Although this was a wallet-friendly solution, it aggravated the fundamental problem of illegal puppy trade.
The working group against puppy trade takes up the fight
In the dog factories of Eastern Europe, breeding takes place; the mothers give birth constantly, so due to poor nutrition and lack of medical care, they become exhausted both physically and mentally quickly. Puppy factories usually provide dogs with no proper veterinary care, food, water, or socialization, characterized by overcrowding and unhealthy conditions. Puppies are taken from their mothers too early, thus not receiving proper immune protection. Under-nourished, sick, and frightened puppies without immunity are regularly loaded into rotating trucks and sent to dog lovers, aka new owners, who sometimes do not even realize they are about to buy puppies. New owners, who are unaware of the sufferings endured, often face puppy illness or early death and high veterinary costs just a few days after purchase. Puppies often fall ill and die in terrible agony. The undeveloped immune system has no chance against parvovirus and other infectious diseases. Meanwhile, all this generates billions in revenue for the mafia controlling the puppy trade.
On World Animal Day, the working group against puppy trade produced an animated film in German and English that warns against illegal puppy trade and online purchasing. The film informs simply and clearly about the severe deficiencies related to breeding as well as the transportation and sale of puppies.
The working group against puppy trade fights against the trading of puppies. The initiative of demanding animal welfare organizations is the introduction of a unified regulation within the European Union, which includes the marking of every dog with a chip and its registration, as well as raising the basic requirements related to dog breeding and mandatory inspections of puppy mills, in order to reduce the abuses associated with the exploitation of animals.
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