https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/non-clinical-questions/22190/bbc-report-about-puppy-farming Just watched the programme. Unbelievable that farms like the one in Fivemiletown can be legal. I can understand how people don&#39;t think anything of it when buying a dog of the dealer in Hamilton, the house as well as the dealer couple look very well presenteden-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/133585?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 16 Apr 2015 09:53:41 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:90086a00-1dfe-44de-80e1-9b8e2e88ee07Bob Russell<p>legal does not necessarily equate to morally right!</p> <p>The rules are there to prevent the worst excesses but someone will always find an industrial (and cheaper) way to do things without actually breaking the law.</p> <p>I have not seen the programme yet as it was on BBC NI and BBC Scotland. It should be on iplayer by now!</p> <p>Until the authorities decide to get on top of this, it will continue. A fairly local Dorset &#39;rescue&#39; has got into hot water by doing a similar thing. Sadly there is a veterinary practice at the more budget end of the market that seems happy to be complicit in this industrial supply of pets.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/133581?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:41:04 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:e7c32e84-9fb5-4c10-83f6-be58dfedf076Hannah Wynne Richards<p>&nbsp;Total agreement. Unfortunately, until we have a legal system that isn&#39;t a toothless tiger, and police prepared to fulfill their statutory duty of prosecuting all crime,not leaving animal crime to the RSPCA (or whatever it&#39;s equivalent is in Ulster) then nothing will be done.</p> <p>Wynne</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>