Animal rights organization welcomes decision as a clear sign against criminal puppy trade
Stuttgart. Important measures against illegal puppy trade: Since June 1, stricter guidelines for providers of animals have applied on the Edogs internet platform. The company operates one of the largest websites for the mediation of dogs. After talks with Peta and the recent publication of the organization for criminal puppy trade, Edogs is now taking an important step for more animal welfare. Only animal shelters, animal welfare associations and registered breeders with membership in an association may publish ads for puppies on the portal. Active offers will expire in the next few months. The animal rights organization welcomes the decision and sees in portals such as quoka .de, Snautz .de and dei ne-Tier Welt. PETA also appealed to the new federal government to completely ban the sale of living beings on online portals.
“We thank Edogs for the enormously important step towards more animal welfare on her offer side,” said Jana Hoger, specialist for animal roommates at PETA. “The illegal puppy trade has developed more and more in recent years – the victims are the animal children. Criminal dealers have adapted their offers so that they hardly notice. Puppies are produced under painful conditions. We are very pleased that more and more platforms no longer want to support such cruelty shops.”
“With our new guidelines, we want to send a clear signal against illegal puppy trade,” said Nadine Götzen, CCO at Edogs. “As a platform, we have a lot of responsibility, so we now consistently rule out private providers of puppies – for more transparency, security and animal welfare. The guidelines give them an opportunity that have so far been overlooked: The dogs in need.”
With the decision, Edogs according to Klein is the second company, which introduces such an tightening of animal welfare guidelines after discussions with PETA. This makes the online marketplaces an important contribution to the containment of criminal puppy trade. The petition launched by the animal rights organization also shows that the operator of similar platforms exists: almost 22,000 supporters already signed them and demand a ban on sales from dogs via internet portals. PETA appeals to all people not to buy bred animals on the Internet and instead to give a home in need of help from the shelter.
Vienna sets signs against puppy trade: punishments also for buyers illegally traded animals
In Vienna since the recent animal welfare law amendment has also been punished that the purchase of puppies from illegal trade is also punishable. Buyers of illegally traded animals have to expect punishments of up to 3,750 euros. PETA appealed to the German federal government to follow this example – because this is the only way to effectively end animal suffering.
Puppy trade is not an isolated case
The business with animal babies is still flourishing via internet portals. Dealers often require several thousand euros for the puppies. After contacting online portals, the animals are often sold to their new owners with fake pet cards. The dog children often come from Eastern Europe. There, dog mothers have to vegetate in their own faeces on “puppy farms” every day, partly without daylight. Many of them suffer from painful skin diseases. In their short life in this industry, mothers are only misused for one purpose: to give birth to puppies permanently. If they are no longer “productive” or too old for the breeders, they are usually killed or exposed. The children offered on the Internet are often seriously ill, whipped, without vaccination protection and full of parasites. The puppies also weaken the transports from distant countries to Germany.
In order to support PETA in the uncovering of illegal puppy trade, suspected cases of the animal rights organization can be communicated directly via the puppy trade page.