Hi need some input as to puppy farms known in ireland.

If anyone who knows about them could PM me, trying to find out about one that I believe is a puppy farm?

will drop you a pm - my friend works in rescue in Dublin area.

Try Mo Davie of it's a dogs life or Irish Retriever Rescue who rescue a lot from the pup farms. Google them and they come up

Hi and thanks for your replies.

I have found out that the place I was told about is a very well known puppy farm in Ireland, now I have to pass on the info to the owner of the puppy

Oh dear what a shame, I hope for the sake of the puppy that it is relatively healthy though. Makes my blood boil

afraid the pup is not too healthy makes me boil too

He may have HD and is only a young pup x

I just wish there was something that could down about these places, the breed club knows of the places, but they can't do much apart from advise protential puppy owners, I try my best to point out the best way to find a good responsible breeder but still feel useless

plenty of puppy farmers in ireland... they seem to see them as stock over here dogs that is:( there are great owners but only a handful of good reputable breeders.

Would it be worth going to the local papers with the story of this puppy?

Or would something like that get too complicated?  In effect the Puppy farm has sold a faulty good.....

Eire is known as the puppy farming capital of Europe as their is no requirement for dog breeders to be licensed. Any puppy purchased in the Uk from a trader (operating a business of buying in and reselling puppies) is covered by the Sale of Goods Act. They can claim against the seller for being sold a puppy that was not healthy. Contact their nearest Trading Standards office and also the Council Environmental Health department covering the area the puppy was sold from. The premises maybe or may not be licensed. It is irrellevent  where the puppy was bred in seeking redress, the responsibilty lies with the seller to only sell, in this instant healthy puppies. All puppies sold from pet shops (or anyone else with a pet shop licence) are bred either on puppy farms or commercial breeders from Eire, Wales, Scotland and N Ireland as no reputable breeder would sell puppies to a retail outlet.

Now if we coudl just get the newspapers that carry puppy adverts to ehad theri column with that piece.  Well maybe just this part:

> Any puppy purchased in the Uk from a trader (operating a business of buying in and reselling puppies) is covered by the Sale of Goods Act. They can claim against the seller for being sold a puppy that was not healthy. Contact their nearest Trading Standards office and also the Council Environmental Health department covering the area the puppy was sold from. The premises maybe or may not be licensed. It is irrellevent  where the puppy was bred in seeking redress, the responsibilty lies with the seller to only sell, in this instant healthy puppies. All puppies sold from pet shops (or anyone else with a pet shop licence) are bred either on puppy farms or commercial breeders as no reputable breeder would sell puppies to a retail outlet.