ocked up in pitch-black, cramped and filthy cages, tiny puppies whimper, prematurely snatched away from their mums at just three or four weeks old.
Appallingly, the newborn pups are cooped up together in disease-ridden cattle sheds, before being sold for up to £3,000 each to unsuspecting families.
Sadly this is a common scenario on one of the UK’s hundreds of puppy farms – large-scale commercial breeding establishments and the dog equivalent of battery hen farming. Up to 100,000 puppies are bred like this every year. Tragically, because of the horrific conditions, one in five puppy farm dogs will die before they’re six months old, and many new owners can encounter vet bills of up to £4,000 – yet it’s a billion-pound industry, designed purely for maximum profit.
Shockingly, one in…
