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Almost no one can resist the embarrassment of baby dogs, but what if business is done with feelings? Where did you get your dog? They are adoptable are here, comes from a breeder from the Westphalian association. We purchased our dog Bella privately from a family who had to move and were not allowed to bring a dog of this size to the new apartment. It comes from Spain, a truly wonderful killing station for dog B. Now in almost no other country in the world are pets as popular as in Germany, cats come first, but right after comes Bello.

More than 5 million dogs live here and the number is increasing every time. year where they all come from Dogs from official breeders of friends or neighbors of animal rights activists from southern Europe or from the neighboring animal shelter Which path should you take if you want to have a four-legged companion? This question is for the sake of animals Many people want a dog that they can raise from a young age of a very specific breed, which raises the first important question: which dog is right for me, come here quickly, that's good. People have no idea why a dog was like that.

They bred him first and that's why they can't keep the dog properly and the drama is seen again and again, especially here in the cities. They have the first dog in their life and they only bought it because the neighbor has it or. because it is fashionable because the ideal of beauty is subject to constant change, that is why you want a comfortable companion. For your part, you prefer the lively and sporty version or the four-legged companion should be more the size of a handbag. This is the first question in every future. The dog's owner should ask and answer where she is going, just as Astrid knows that she was only able to fulfill her childhood wish of having a dog late in her life.

Then we searched for a long time to see which dog suited us, who fit. In our family, what breeds were definitely out of the question and the main thing for me was that I didn't want a hunting dog, not a professional hunter, not a terrier, one of medium size and short hair. Dog without hunting instinct and then I know that back then you could still make one like that somewhere on the Internet and then an Entlebucher senhund and a Mittelschnauzer appeared. I didn't know Entlebucher and then I started researching the breed and found him visually very attractive and.

He met all the criteria I had imagined but where do you get the dog of your dreams? That is the second important question because dog breeding is not only carried out by responsible animal lovers but also by people who do business, especially illegal ones. The trade in puppies produced on an assembly line and under difficult conditions in Eastern Europe is now extremely lucrative; Despite all the education, dubious offers from dubious breeders and traders are still accepted in Germany. Many have understood that it cannot be done under any circumstances. They buy a dog in a market like this.

You should buy this one for only €50 or €100. Oh, I prefer them to be cute and not out of pity because these dogs are almost always too young and usually seriously ill. but the business with dogs and other animals on Internet sales platforms is thriving even more. On sites like eBay Classifieds or markt.de, many puppies of all breeds are sold, but in between there are serious offers from real hobby breeders or from For those who want to leave their dog in loving hands, you will always find offers like this: the same dealer offers more puppies at the same time.

More than 20 different breeds obtain their products from such commercial sellers, because animals are probably nothing else. for them, often from so-called Eastern European breeders, a big problem that also worries the official veterinarian of the Dame Spree district. With the removal of borders, the doors are open for dogs. I really regret having to bring you to Germany. Especially in Eastern European countries. The statistics and cases we work on show that there is a lot of abuse towards the puppies themselves, which is why it is so important that you can understand exactly where a dog is coming from when purchasing puppies online.

In the markets, this is almost impossible. Although there are now warnings about dubious or even illegal offers, the corresponding ads are rarely removed from sales platforms. There are only suggestions and links to sites like wühltischwelpen.de. The purchases are made by the puppies, but of course the enterprising dog sellers also read them. They seem to respect these rules and deceptions, which is why often even critical buyers Nina D from Berlin bought in June 2014 a small playmate for her French bulldog Betty from a supposed hobby breeder. in Brandenburg Mire. She was also looking for a puppy on an Internet platform because she had discovered what to look for when buying.

She felt well prepared. There were three of us because I didn't want to trust my instincts. Feeling alone, so the three of us went there, I have to say. The way she presented herself and the way she presented everything, people just believed her, I really have to say, so I definitely wasn't fooled and neither. The people I was there with did and we still fell in love. So it was well presented, it was like a small extension, I'll say like a garage, where the puppies were kept in individual boxes. Well, that's an exaggeration because. It was very well done with rubbish on the floor and then there was a heat lamp, a little playground.

Outside everything was very clean, very tidy and gave a very good and well-kept impression. The self-proclaimed breeder even gave Nina D. an alleged animal mother and presented a sales contract and a vaccination certificate for the puppy, which seemed absolutely healthy. Nina D bought it, but the joy was short-lived. The same day the dog had diarrhea and also seemed to have a cold. The puppy feels miserable from hour to hour. Nina D takes him to the vet the next day, who immediately refers him to a veterinary clinic, but also in this case the little dog can no longer be helped, he dies a few days later despite intensive treatment. since the alleged breeder claims that the puppy was completely healthy at the time of sale.

Nina D has an autopsy report prepared at the veterinary clinic of the Free University of Berlin and it also emerged that this dog had a terminal illness and was 10 years old. two and a half months, so to summarize it briefly, this is the autopsy report that covers three pages, it can be said that the dog had a chronic tissue disorder, chronic pneumonia, chronic nasal lateral heights, aging, a pulmonary edema, yes, everything could have continued in An additional report would probably have revealed that the dog had dust, so these are all diseases that the dog could not have contracted from me in three days.

Dog trafficker who tries to deny all guilt. but according to the court ruling he has to return part of the purchase price and the treatment costs to Nina D, even if she cannot prove her suspicion that she probably bought the puppy cheaply from breeders in Eastern Europe, the problem really is that these traders of Of course, now they are very smart and of course they can also read all these serious tips that you can read on the Internet and apply them one by one, which means that the dog was not a bargain, yes, to me, This dog cost me €650, this bulldog with papers cost €1,100 and as an amateur breeder there were no papers for the dog and that's why they said well, 650 is an acceptable price for a dog that cannot be bred, which I I would not do.

Anyway, but no one thinks that for €200 you have to be clear that it is a dog that is probably also sick, so it wasn't like that. Animal rights activist Stefan Klippstein knows the Brandenburg dog trader and knows it. he not only sold a terminally ill puppy to Nina D. Klippstein has been following the man's business practices for years and has tried to stop him several times, so we tried very hard to take action against this dog trade, we filed several reports. Sometimes we file extensive reports with the local veterinary authority and explain very clearly why this dog dealer is not trustworthy and why he cannot do business to trade in animals, we have filed and documented a large amount of paperwork and the authorities do not The activist Animal rights activists cannot understand why authorities are often so hesitant to take action against the illegal puppy trade, but they also know from experience that it is very rarely possible to prove that a puppy was already visibly ill at the time.

The time of sale and illegal importation of dogs from countries such as Poland or Hungary can almost never be documented in court. Official veterinarians like Dr. Jana Gut often have only one option: then they can only ask the public if they know that they should declare such amounts. This for us and to provide objective evidence of it, which is what we often hear or is assumed to be something we can't do anything about. We need things that can be. It can also be used in court, so it is important that buyers take their puppies immediately to a trusted veterinarian and have them examined there.

Dr. astd Rodewald also has to treat dogs like this again and again in her practice in Heidelberg. A customer also had this little French bulldog. He bought it from a dealer in Brandenburg, probably discovered it on the Internet, decided on the dog beforehand, drove there and saw that the dog was gone. he was fine and he bought it anyway and brought it with her. The dog came in and they put him on the table, he sat down and first spit all over the table because he also had severe diarrhea. The doctor tested him for single-cell giadiene pathogens.

It can be found in puddles and even in drinking water. His suspicions were confirmed and the dog was surely already sick when the owner picked him up and really broke out on the long trip back, Dr. Rodewald also confirmed the test result in writing. He survived the serious infection, but had to be treated and groomed for months. The dog, for example, always had to be fed in an upright position, standing on the padded box and with its paws on the edge of the box. He couldn't eat anything. With the help of the veterinary diagnosis, the buyer managed to successfully sue the dealer, at least in a local court, for reimbursement of the purchase price and the immense treatment costs, but this dealer could not be stopped either.

That would be the most important thing for me right now. It's just that no new puppies came through this dealer and then he offered other breeds on the Internet and continued in the same way. The commercial dog trade is a legal gray area, but it still is. It is not prohibited, although many veterinary offices have a big problem with this business practice. I believe that the moment puppies are traded, many behavioral problems and diseases are inevitable, which is why I personally reject the commercial puppy trade. Animal rights activist Stefan Klippstein knows the puppy market very well from his years of research, which is why we often have the problem that these dogs basically exploit weed areas and of course disguise them and they make them illegal.

The dog trade accounts for a large part of the income. They are registered and many dogs just run around. They cannot be controlled or stopped and are mostly dogs imported cheaply from Poland, near the border. with Poland and they sell very quickly. Actually, this is not a problem. The parents of these puppies are often malnourished and sick. Traders buy their young for little money and then illegally bring them to Germany as supposedly native animals at a high price. Profits sold in mixed breeds can be purchased for €30,40,50. Pedigree dogs cost a maximum of €180, so I can buy a mopswelp bulldog for €180 if you later see the dogs selling for €6,700. , the profit margin is of course huge and people buy animals in droves, not that you will sit on these animals for long, no problem five pugs in the bulldocken wpen in Z days for sale on Ebay .

Restricting this type of puppy trade would be a general vaccination and chip requirement for dogs. In Germany, a solution could be for all animals to have a mandatory chip. In my opinion, microchipping would be desirable if only veterinarians and veterinarians did this. Vaccination is only carried out after the chip is placed. Veterinarians are currently only available in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt. Dog chipping is mandatory and vaccinations are no longer required in Germany. Only animals that can be proven to have come from abroad should be vaccinated against rabies, at a minimum. This leaves a lot of room for maneuver for shady traders and breeders.

Let's really stop the illegal puppy trade. An official breeder, for example from the VDH dog association, puppies from organized breeders andHobbyist breeders often cost much more than €1000 and not only because of the genealogical documents that document exactly where the dog comes from, but also because these breeders work hard and are strictly controlled in their clubs, just like the Belz couple from Fahland. , whose Skyterrier Mette was a mother for the first time at the age of two, completely pl

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d and prepared. They say it starts until the dog is ready for breeding. There are many obstacles to overcome, so a real breeding dog has to survive several exhibitions under the strict supervision of breeding judges and also undergo extensive medical examinations.

We have been breeding the very rare Skyterriers for many years, a breed that was originally used for hunting. We generally only have one dog and she only has puppies two or three times in her life. We do not breed dogs, we want to be one. Being active in breeding and breeding means that we want to bring dogs into the world that look more and more like the standard, so we first had to pass several tests before she was admitted to breeding and then look for a suitable dog. The male dog is also complicated and time-consuming, an experience that dog breeder and trainer Astrid Weiß has already had several times with her mountain dog Endlibcher.

She is a member of the Swiss mountain dog association SSV, an important requirement for successful breeding of her. If I have a desire to use my bitch for breeding then I contact the SSV working group and then they give me the names of the male dogs that initially fit my bitch and then I look at a mating plan and that is what that is used. In fact, today there is a computer program from a publisher and in this documentation base, that's what the program is called, all the information from the last generations of heifers that are there flows into this documentation base.

White travels long distances so that her females mate with the chosen male. The trip is paid with €1,000 and accommodation costs are not included, but not only inherited genes are important for a dog to be physically and mentally healthy. His social behavior is also formed in the first weeks of his life. Ours grow in the living room and are always exciting to see. When you first sit in front of the TV, clearly, the telephone, the kitchen, the machine, the normal everyday madness, that is what you will have in the family later. , because everything you have not come to know makes you worry later, which often applies to these dogs, especially about their origin.

You don't know him 100%, like with Astrid Flach's dog, I did a little research on the Internet. I really wanted to have a Tibetan Terrier and then after a few calls I decided on a lady who sounded pretty good in Saxony. I drove there and then I had Jule. Then I must say that my heart took over my mind relatively quickly and I chose Jule. with me even though she knew that certain things somehow didn't seem so right there, Astrid didn't know anything about Jule's origins or how she was raised on the first visit. The vet showed that, contrary to initial fears, Jule was not sick. but another problem quickly arose.

She was sitting under the sofa with us, so she immediately hid and was afraid of everything when the washing machine was running, when the coffee machine was running outside. It was the same, in the end she had just entered. a kind of shed, she didn't recognize the grass when it moved, she went into the hedges when it was November when the wind was blowing, she sat there and was dazzled, Jule probably had it in the first weeks of In her life, they didn't see much of their environment, but it is this pre-formation phase that is very important.

It's so during this period of time, when the dogs have gotten to know things there, they tune out, so there's a. plane flying, the puppy sits and looks at it, oh, a plane a plane a plane and then he puts a mark on it and says okay plane I have seen it, I know it, I can't worry anymore, like Julesf he hasn't seen much because They are just scales, so everything scares him very, very much at first and worries him. Astrid quickly admitted that she and her dog needed professional help and so she sought out a dog trainer.

In her case, the rescue. Her name was Astrid Knows Very Well, whose dog mother showed the completely scared puppy how wonderful a dog's life is. Later, she added training with the team. Exercises such as walking through a tunnel or between poles are intended to further strengthen Jule's self-confidence and her appearance. Like dancing together, it is actually a confidence-building measure. If it is too good. Yes, it is good for the dog. An unpleasant situation is that the person is completely above him, so in this case we also attract him with treats and shape his behavior. by luring him with treats to make him a little more charming to the dog, you simply build his self-confidence, especially through working with equipment, plus All exercises are well suited to all exercises that involve a lot of bonding work and especially with A dog that has a bad attitude towards people, as in the case of Jules, because there were few people around, it is even more important to work with her where she has a lot to do with her human.

That is why the Belitz breeding couple's puppies grow up in the house so that from the beginning they establish a good relationship with people and do not believe that the vacuum cleaner is a hostile creature. The little ones are gently weaned from breast milk with treats such as. The sweet quark stays for at least a week for the mother and siblings, this is a legal requirement in Germany and as much as the puppies are bred, potential buyers are also questioned, so we all have good contacts with the new owners. , that is why it is also important for us to know where the dog is going.

A dog does not necessarily want to go there, so if an applicant comes and you have already checked it a little, time is very important, if you are so busy with work that you do not have time for the dog, then there is no point in giving him a dog. . We have a clause in our sales contracts that says we definitely want to see the dog again after a year. BZ also finds people interested in her puppies, among other things, through the Internet, but advertises Mette's litter on her own website and not on a sales platform.

The question remains: does a puppy and a pedigree dog have to be an alternative? the breeder must go to the animal shelter. Here you can take your time and look around and get advice on which dog might be right for you, but you have to ask. You can also respond here, as the animal shelter director points out. Buchholz rightly emphasizes that he often asks people what the dog's job is with them. They usually look at me very strangely that a dog has a job. Doing something during the day seems completely foreign to me. Lots of people, but a dog like that is not a sofa cushion.

Maybe one or the other will realize that it is not necessary to have a dog like DLE Liebenau, hello, I know there are two sitting there. They are already waiting for you and more and more people know that it's your turn so well, let's start little by little who are you going to take again today today I'm going to take the Fritz dieberagira and maybe the Paco after checking it again you shouldn't take so much Don't eat snow. The pensioner has been coming to the Merke Spuchholz animal shelter for many years and takes care of the dogs here.

Then I choose my favorites and each one would have to go out for a walk. to the forest or accompany them here to the animal shelter for half an hour and a half. Of course, I wouldn't come here so often if I had dogs and because I also have three cats at home and my wife from Deadle Liebenau, the dogs here are a good alternative to puppies you don't really know. You know where they come from and how they grew up. You get an animal that is a finished dog and you know what the quirks of the animals are.

I have and I think that's a really big advantage. However, if you decide to take a child to an animal shelter, those interested have to spend a similar amount of time as a demanding breeder, we want those interested in dogs to do several. You visit our animal shelter and actually contact the animal you can see first, do they get along with it and does this animal react to the family? How does the family react to him? We have to endure many questions and we have to see who can go to whom. If people give us honest information, it's much easier for us to decide who fits where.

Margot Wendland sees this in view of Animal's overcrowding. Shelters also criticize the dog trade. In general, I am not in favor of dogs being marketed in this way and I would be against it anyway, which I would very much appreciate if all breeders stopped breeding for a whole year, as we have done so far. In Germany there are so many animal shelters and so many animals, especially dogs that are in animal shelters and need to leave urgently, a family cannot replace an animal shelter, so many dogs are looking for a new home and many people want a dog, but Everyone who decides on a four-legged companion also has a great responsibility and if everyone was aware of this, perhaps there would not be a big business with puppies.