:( Help stamp out puppy farms...takes just a moment of your time

[twinkles**stars]

http://www.animalsaustralia.org/take_action/victoria-puppy-farms

Help free dogs from factory farms

The Victorian government has failed to keep their promise to stamp out the cruelty in puppy factories. Instead their current draft code of practice for rearing and breeding of animals is weaker, narrower and if made law would result in worse conditions for dogs and cats. 

You have a small window of opportunity to have your say on these proposed regulations until 14th August. TAKE ACTION today!

Life for dogs in puppy factories is already bleak. Investigations have revealed dogs being confined in cramped enclosures with no access to food and water; no bedding; no exercise; no heat on freezing nights; no access to sunlight; and dogs even being permanently kept on wire floored cages.

What will these new standards mean for dogs? If these changes are agreed to then:

• dogs will legally be able to be confined in puppy factories for their entire lives;
• female breeding dogs will be able to be bred more often, with no limit for males; and
• dogs no longer deemed profitable may be euthanased via 'any method', which could include shooting or being beaten over the head with a blunt object.

Click here for more on what these regulations will mean for dogs »

Our feline friends have drawn the short straw too,with the revised code recommending that cats only need to be fed once a day; diminishing or removing completely requirements for health checks and vaccinations; allowing animals with hereditary defects to be used for breeding; and allowing mating between second degree relatives.

Use the form below to tell the Victorian government that they have failed to keep their public promise to stamp out the cruelty of puppy factories. This revised code will only serve to legalise cruelty and dogs and cats in Victoria deserve better.

[crystal**flake]

Are those points for real, its horrible.

[twinkles**stars]

Very much so crystal! Disgraceful isn't it?

It will remain legal to shoot puppy factory dogs or use blunt force trauma, the word 'humane' has not been defined in the code and it needs to be, we do not accept Minister Walsh definition of what is 'humane' and we certainly do not accept the puppy farmers definition !
Dogs will be confined for 23 hours a day, they have been given an extra 30 minutes outside their cage in this code, BIG DEAL!! Its not good enough !!
Please take the time to view the RSPCA Vic draft submission here and use it as a guide to lodge your own submission.
http://www.rspcavic.org/documents/Campaigns/BSL/RSPCA_Vic_analysis_of_July_2013_draft.pdf

[twinkles**stars]

Minister for Agriculture Peter Walsh admitting on ABC radio that it is acceptable to kill puppy factory dogs by shooting them or using blunt force trauma! It will remain legal for puppy farmers to shoot their dogs when they can no longer breed, or hit them on the head with a hammer to kill them, Minister Walsh says "as long as it is done humanely"
Please start writing your submissions, there will be a draft submission up we can all use and share ASAP, for further information see this link http://rspcavic.org/issues-take-action/puppy-factories/

Peter Walsh should hang his head in shame.

[bright.ton42]

Yes will do thanks for the link. 

Peter Walsh should hang his head in shame.

[twinkles**stars]

Thanks bright.ton....I hope that all that have viewed this have done the same.

[clair.de.lune]

I did it

[***super_nova***]

Government is very unlikely to ban puppy farms.  That would be interfering with business.  Instead they keep introducing tougher and tougher conditions on small breeders, which will in the end result in nobody, but the puppy farms will be able to breed. I would much rather see pups being bred by "BYB" from loved family pets, and brought up  inside a house with family, then being mass produced in puppy farms where the conditions are horrendous. 

[bright.ton42]

Couldn't agree more Super.   

[bright.ton42]

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