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Feature: Exposing the puppy traffickers

Our undercover investigation lifts the lid on the lucrative puppy trade.

Often bred outside the UK, puppies are taken from their mothers and may be transported long distances to be sold by some pet shops, via the internet and through local newspaper adverts. Many puppies fall sick and sadly some die, very often once you’ve paid out hundreds, or even thousands of pounds in vet bills. And that’s on top of what you paid for the puppy in the first place.

If you don’t want to be their next victim, don’t buy their puppies.

Post: Do you have any stories about this trade?

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I agree with animallover7 and Genie, the people that do this should get whats coming to them, and worse. I would throw these people away in jail, lock them up forever. People that do this should feel how these puppies ...
lottiebottie007 18/11/2008 at 12:38p.m.

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