Our priority will always be helping animals in need.
Start your search today - you never know who you'll meet and fall in love with. You can even filter the dogs in our care by breed, age and more. Every year, we rehome thousands of dogs and each one comes microchipped, neutered and with a complete health check. Could you rehome a rescued dog?ĭon't forget, you can also rehome a dog from us. While looking out for these signs can help you identify a bad breeder's advert, there's still more you can do to ensure you aren't funding the cruel puppy trade and to ensure you'e buying a healthy, happy puppy.įollow our top tips to finding a good puppy breeder, which includes questions to ask the breeder and things to look out for when meeting your puppy. For more information, see our puppy trade campaign. If you see a suspicious advert, please report it to us so that we can investigate. Promises of 'free insurance' and 'puppy packs' - these don't mean the advert is from a legitimate breeder.Ask for original documents and check with the Kennel Club before buying a puppy. Are they really Kennel Club registered? - we've seen dealers claim they're Kennel Club registered to help them look legitimate, but be wary of this.Pet passport? - if the puppy is advertised as having a passport, it has most probably been imported.If someone's advertising a three-week-old vaccinated puppy, they're lying. A puppy cannot be vaccinated before they're four to six weeks old. Vaccinated early - if the advert says a puppy has been vaccinated, check how old he or she is.Photos of the puppies may have been used on other adverts - right click on the photo, select 'search Google for image' and see if it has been used on other ads.Words like 'miniature' and 'teacup' can be a sign of dealers trying to capitalise on popular terms.Descriptions may have been copied and pasted and used on more than one advert - try Googling the text and see if it's been used before, word-for-word.Same contact number on more than one advert - try Googling the number to see if it has been used on any other puppy adverts.If you're looking to buy a puppy, make sure you read adverts carefully and look out for these telltale signs that something may be amiss: 87% of puppy trade calls we get are about animals bought over the internet.
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But what are the signs to look out for? How to spot online adverts from puppy dealersĭealers use the internet to their advantage when it comes to advertising and selling farmed puppies. These normal-looking homes are a shopfront for unscrupulous puppy dealing rings who want to sell you a puppy who's likely to be sick and traumatised. Farms across Europe are breeding puppies at alarming rates, in appalling conditions, and transporting them to homes in the UK to sell. When you're buying a puppy, it's vital to know you're buying a healthy, happy animal from a good breeder.
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