many people still do not understand what is behind the smuggling of puppies from Eastern Europe, or the puppies sold by the vast majority of shops and so-called "puppy mills", or so-called farms that are advertised with phrases like "Ten (or twenty, thirty ...) beautiful breeds! Shipping throughout Italy, including the islands, "... as if the puppies were in the kitchen cabinets.
But that's wrong, after all, this puppy in Hungarian or Romanian origin, who seem so cute and that (according to the vox populi, because the reality is a bit 'different) cost less than a dog breeding ?
Perhaps the breeding dogs are a bit 'more beautiful ... but if you are not willing to do shows, what if one ear is a bit' longer, or if the hair is a bit 'less soft?
Another objection "classic", but come on, the puppy is a puppy, full stop! What are all these problems? The logical thing to do when you decide to buy is the place to look for: a) more comfortable, b) cheaper.
We start then from this point, making it clear now that the pups of the East are never "cheap" as it might seem at first sight.
fact that (a little) that saves the time of purchase will be canceled out by the veterinary expenses incurred for a dog into shape almost always ill, often seriously.
But it is true that the puppies are almost always Eastern sick?
Unfortunately yes, it's true. And it's true because they are kept "low cost".
But this does not mean that we strive to meet the customer to let them spend less! It does mean that
:
a) the puppies are born from parents chosen at random, without selection criteria, because the tests for the presence of genetic defects is expensive. So do not do. Nobody controls the eye disease, hip and elbow dysplasia, hereditary heart disease. If the parents are suffering are never excluded from reproduction (as in a good breeding), but used (indeed, exploited) as they could. And the puppies inherit these diseases;
b) the churn mares one litter after another, every six months without shooting time: they are lovingly cared for after delivery, but put there waiting for the next heat, as in a assembly line. Obviously, this weakens immensely bitches, and mothers can be born only debilitated puppies weak
c) for mothers using food to turn cheap, low quality and therefore, that debilitates even more dogs. The cubs are barely weaned - always with low-quality food - and then packed and shipped, so keep them longer than that would cost extra 'awnings' are careful to bear;
d) the puppies are "packaged and shipped" around 30-35 days of age, because at 40 days (age at which are more "attractive" for the customer) must already be on display. This means they can not be vaccinated (the first vaccination can not be performed before 50 days because they would have no effect, as there is still circulating maternal antibodies). Moreover, at this age, the puppy's immune system is not yet fully developed: so the dogs do not have literally defenses against pathogens, viruses, bacteria they may encounter in their path;
e) the puppies, to get Hungary in Italy or other countries canifici locations, traveling for at least two days (and debilitated without vaccine protection) without heating up truck, stowed like hens in cages is not sanitized who have seen thousands of pups go with the results ... that can be easily understood.
Why, then, the traders buy the dogs of the East?
Why breeders of quality, selected with care and love their pets as if they were their children, very difficult to sell to shops: in fact the quality of breeders also select customers. They want to know, know who they are, follow them along the path of life of the puppy. This would not be possible if the puppies were delivered to a dealer.
In Italy, of course, there are not only breeders of quality (magari!) ... and there are farmers who sell to stores, but their price is never less than € 250-300. Dogs Eastern
cost about 50 € ... and accounts shall be made soon.
importer, wholesaler, retailer as well as final, no matter if some puppy dies and / or someone else needs to be changed: the savings that can charge 50% of deaths not think this makes the less profitable 'business ... and in fact the percentage East of puppies that do not survive their import is estimated at around 50%. Some die during the journey ... many, unfortunately, in the homes of new owners.
Yet the puppies in the window always seem in good shape! How can they all be sick?
can Unfortunately, they do.
just that, just landed in stores, are immediately filled with gamma globulin (and sometimes even exciting) to "mask" the real situation, which manifests itself always and only after the sale.
Puppies East are only sold in stores?
No, unfortunately: too many would-be farmers are in fact importers.
In general, all structures that ensure the "prompt delivery" of any breed of dog is highly suspect.
Another well-known means of communication (e - shameful! - Even promoted recently by Tg5) are the so-called "Fair of the puppy," "My Pet" and the like.
If a baby dies after a few days of purchase, you should not be entitled to compensation?
course, the law would expect ... but retailers bring - of course - on his hands to protect themselves.
Here are some typical signs of scam soon:
a) demand for cash and refuse to checks, cash, credit card
b) required to sign a "guarantee" that, when read carefully, will always contain absurdities such as the duration 24-48 hours (pazzesco! The incubation time is the most common viral diseases of fifteen days!), the prohibition to visit the puppy to be a veterinarian other than the one suggested by the seller (it seems incredible, but we also saw this!) and / or various other annotations that actually raise the Seller from any liability;
c) the non-delivery receipt in respect of the puppy on the ticket will only see the items related to food, bowls, etc..
If a customer puts down his hard, the seller usually replace the puppy with another team (the East, of course): We know of one case where the second baby also died, in addition to a family which there was a child ... and you can imagine his happiness in all this.
However, in some cases, you can still sue and be compensated (even if you signed a contract halter).
do not intend, in these pages, give more weapons to rogue traders and explain their how to defend better, so if you want to know more, write to the editorial staff or send an e-mail to canidellest@tipresentoilcane.com .
We will contact the lawyer Simona Mosconi, which, having itself been a victim of this sinister traffic (its west highland lived only ten days) has managed to kidnap the puppies sold in Europe by a great pet shop in Milan and is still going strong, and our magazine, to continue this battle.
All dogs are puppies Eastern European waste?
course not! This traffic concerns only the so-called "canifici" or farms "low cost" which produce puppies looking only to the quantity and not quality.
In Hungary, Romania and other European countries there are good farms, which produce excellent puppies ... and do not sell them to the Italian shops, as they do not, for reasons already seen, the best farmers in our house.
When we speak of "puppy of the East" and they always refer only to canifici: It is important (and correct!) Specify that there are only canifici East, but even more important to remember that puppies that are imported and sold by shops and fairs are ONLY baby bottle.
If the shopkeeper speaks of puppies "sons of Hungarian samples, nine times out of ten is cheating! Ask a practical demonstration of what is emerging ... and see what happens.
Why no one does anything to stop this traffic?
The answer is really very sad: because it is' lawful.
Awnings, canifici and shops advertise with impunity from the pages of newspapers, magazines and even (as far as I know, "Meet the Dog" is currently the only magazine that refuse advertising for importers and retailers of baby Eastern), because Italian law does not care of the problem the media are not interested in the problem, maybe no one cares as long as he does not buy a puppy for her children and the puppy dies .
E 'perfectly legal to import puppies, provided with vaccinations, but the books are fake without problem, just a veterinarian accomplice.
E 'perfectly legal (and it is shameful that it is) to expose the puppies on display, in rotation, so if one of them was ill has also ensured that plagued all those who come after him (but in the meantime there are the gammaglobulin! ).
E ' perfectly legal, always with the help of a veterinarian, "dope" literally the puppies to make them look lively and cheerful: it is enough that the veterinarian stating that they needed the administration of those medications.
Unfortunately, yes, that's it: veterinarians accomplices not only exist, but they are also numerous.
And the Order of Veterinarians, instead of searching one by one and radiarli ignominiously, is concerned to punish those who seek to provide a social service ... as is happening to the Veterinary Mutual of Turin, which will be discussed in the next issue. Eastern
dogs I tried to personally speak to the media (many e-mails, faxes and letters sent to Mauritius Costanzo, Striscia la Notizia and others): I never got any response.
same fate for many other people I know, from the animal to simply huge dog that the puppy died in my arms.
course, are involved in this traffic actually too many shops, breeders, veterinarians, the same ENCI (that perfecting the Hungarian pedigree without a murmur, giving dogs the East - or at least those who survived - an Italian pedigree and the ability to reproduce ) ... and of course the Italian state, which allows imports without sufficient investigation.
Going to put the finger on the problem is likely to raise a hornet's nest ... and maybe not indifferent to this, all is silent.
All shops always sell dogs and only Europe?
No, not all, but unfortunately it is the vast majority. But there are also traders, farmers who sell their pups, sometimes excellent.
How can I tell if the seller wants to sell me a puppy-scam?
It 's very simple. Simply:
a) require the exact origin of the puppy and have it put in writing.
remember that unscrupulous sellers will always try to build on our feelings, making us feel even unfortunate if we make the specific questions, but how? The love for the dog comes before everything else?
Who cares about the origin, age, pedigree and all this nonsense?
WARNING: the game is old and dirty ... and it works wonderfully for years. But enough is enough. If the seller mentions
sentimental reasons to divert our questions, kindly rispondiamogli that since the puppy is not given, but we have to pay for it, we are "forced" to protect ourselves and to ask specific guarantees as with any purchase.
So we remain firm in our demands, and if not let's settle without compromise.
sweet musette such as that which we give you the full world of swindlers, fortunately, no.
b) requiring a health guarantee (always written!) Of at least twenty days. If the puppy was in good health and vaccinated regularly, the seller does not risk anything, oven.
If you do not want to do it is because he has a guilty conscience.
How can you protect?
First, the easy way: do not buy puppies in the store or to the fair, and not buying puppies from any so-called "herd" that sells puppies over ten races. Breeding is
a challenging job difficult, requiring patience and love: it is already difficult with one or two races. With ten is impossible. About
breeds too safe farming evil can be a "awning our" or an importer, but in any case will not give you many guarantees of health, beauty and character. So best avoided in any case.
If you want a cheap dog, if you do not care to play it, if you do not care about shows or working trials ... the shelters are full of dogs of all ages, sexes, shapes and colors just waiting for a family.
Why look just the dog breed?
The classic response is: "Because I like aesthetically. And why a purebred dog know exactly what to expect, I know how great will, what kind of hair will, which will have character. "
Be '... with the dogs of the East this is never true. Your puppy as an adult look like - yes - the race of which you were in love ... but will be a good representative of that particular breed and will never have a character corresponding to that described by the breed standard. A little 'because, where there is no selection, there are also no results (or morphological, or character): a little' because early separation from the mother and the trauma suffered by all the puppies East inevitably cause problems with character.
Among the dogs I have met personally Eastern Labrador, husky and golden biting, ashamed, rottweiler, beagle inaccessible to children and so on.
If nobody buys the puppies East, those poor people that would end?
This question seems far more sensible than it is ... because in reality we should not care to "save the puppies." If nobody buys dogs
East, merchants would stop supplies from importers. If the amount does not include more puppies, farmers would stop producing them and were engaged in another. The puppies are not
the world alone: \u200b\u200bno one could enjoy the most business in their tied-up just stop the birth of the poor unfortunates.
For those already present, should first be a strict law on imports (the law that no one is demanding hard enough: even the animal welfare groups): At this point it should start a nice survey of puppies already in Italy. Those in good condition could be sold ... would be sequestered while the trust in health kennels and then given up for adoption (but free after being treated).
do not know if there will ever be a serious law: we try ... but seeing as the government faced the problem of "Dangerous dogs", I have serious doubts about what could have devised to stem the traffic of dogs of the East.
So at the moment, the only things to be done to combat this trade are two
a) does not include pups born in a canificio:
b) inform more people can be relatives, friends ... and enemies too, because too many people still do not SA. And that is how this trade flourishes: ignorance of the public ... and on the skin of pups.
E 'possible for a seller in good faith, and do not know what lies behind this traffic?
For what is my personal experience, NO. It is not possible. Simply because it is possible that the seller consider "normal" percentage of sick puppies and / or death as that which concerns the dogs of the East.
All merchants that have so far been pressed, even if the customer had to believe that the innocent little angels, in the end results are well aware.
It 's hard to admit make him (it was hard even for the Guardia di Finanza, in cases that dealt with) ... but so far the reality seems to be always and only this: retailers and awnings know exactly what they do.
SOME CONSEQUENCES of Eastern
- resurgence of the spread of diseases that were now virtually disappeared from Italian dog, such as distemper and parvovirus. Dogs East, debilitated and malnourished, are a valuable reservoir for these viruses that have returned to plague our cities, spreading like oil with serious consequences for all dogs Italian;
- - extremely difficult to control genetic diseases (hip and elbow dysplasia, eye diseases, heart disease, etc.).
Almost every breed club you are giving a lot of trouble to select and monitor the dog population, excluding from breeding dogs carrying Taree: while the dogs are almost invariably affected by Eastern genetic defects, because on them there is no control.
When they arrive in Italy and ENCI - no control - gives them an Italian pedigree, these dogs are almost invariably put into play by their owners, who like to have a litter (also a persistent rumor as unfounded the argument that the bitch "should" give birth at least once in their life) who obviously have no idea of \u200b\u200bthe damage that can lead to race.
Most people do not even know what the control of genetic diseases, and not understand that, if it is right that the world is beautiful and also the the less attractive it is not right ... that is also sick of the dogs, at least when it would have the means to avoid it;
- countless people literally cheated and desperate children because the puppy is much wanted to see the dead in the arms after a few days;
- appreciable damage to the Italian breeder of quality, while addressing costs and commitments of great importance may not sell their puppies (healthy and typical).
Why? But why is it considered "too expensive"!
Dealers and awnings, in fact, manage to sell the puppy to a few hundred euro less: while we gain the same strategic. So
the serious breeders, to be at least in expenditure, is to actually sell the puppies at a higher price than they could keep them if they were only to cover the national demand.
fact, selling more, they could produce 'a bit more "certainly not with the rhythms of canifici, that in addition to stress even kittens bitches making them cover every heat ... but a litter in over a year could think of it.
and producing more and having to rely on a market could lower the prices slightly.
In this way there would be even greater production of quality you can rely on and to choose the best players to ever raise the level of our dogs.
While today it happens that very serious and conscientious breeders do not have reservations, while the puppies of the same breed come from Eastern literally cart, go on display and are sold at a dizzying rate.
CONCLUDING:
If possible, avoid buying a puppy for Christmas: Give your children a picture of the breed you chose, that says "Good for the arrival of a wonderful puppy, not As soon as the farmer is ready to deliver it. "
But if you buy your puppy in the holidays, if you can not survive a month more if you are absolutely sure that these are the only good day ... then, please, do not buy dogs East. For no reason at all, you tell any story to tell or prove.
And if you understand my words, and have believed in what is simply the truth ... talk with your friends, relatives and acquaintances. Photocopy these pages and then by distribution of leaflets.
Spread the word when you can. Because if the law does not arrive to protect the puppies, perhaps the word most do.
