Dog breeding farms, often pseudo-breeding, are not sufficiently regulated. Even if they register, no one checks them – unless it turns out that such a farm is a dying ground or even a cemetery. By then it is often too late. Animal defenders appeal to the Sejm to change it.
He can't eat his fill yet, because it could be harmful to him, but there will be another portion in two hours. When Bayron came to Tusia, Marcel and Mrs. Marzena, he was the shadow of a bullmastiff. He weighed 28 kilograms, which is almost 40 kilograms less than he should.
– He probably didn't leave the pen for several months, so lying motionless, lying on a hard floor, lying in feces, I think that these wounds were caused by mainly pressure sores, mainly neglect, lack of veterinary care, especially everything – says Marzena Maciaszek, Bayron's new caregiver.
Nine dogs taken from a pseudo-kennel near Białystok were in this condition.
“Production” of dogs and big money
Dogs were no longer needed when they could no longer be gene donors, incubators, or ATMs. They were sentenced to starvation in the basement. In solitude.
– The breeder did not want to give these dogs back. She claimed that if we took the dogs away, she would kill herself and that she couldn't imagine life without them. Just imagine what state of mind such a person must have, says Joanna Sroka from the “Cane Corso Rescue Poland” Foundation.
Such people are tempted to breed pets by big money, which can be obtained in a pathological way at low cost. On a micro scale, for example in Szczecin, by “producing” cocker spaniels in an apartment. Or on a wholesale scale, for example in Kashubia, by opening a factory of puppies of many breeds simply in the field.
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– In dramatic conditions, without food, without water, dozens of them locked in one tight box with access to one kennel. They were wading in feces – reports Barbara Dulęba, coordinator of the Pomeranian Inspectorate for Animal Protection and member of the Polish Animal Society OTOZ “Animals”.
Nobody controls pseudo-breeding
To start a breeding farm, theoretically you need to register with an association. Literally in some, because no one checks what these associations are doing.
Theoretically, each farm should also be supervised by a district veterinarian. Well, if he was in charge, Bayron wouldn't be in the condition he is in. Nobody checks how many dogs die in pseudo-kennels and for what reasons.
– Unfortunately, there are cemeteries there. Cemeteries of those animals that could not be reached in time – says Joanna Sroka.
Białystok. The police entered the dog breeding area. They immediately found that the animals were kept in extremely poor conditionsCane Corso Rescue Poland Foundation
System solutions are needed.
– We would have to have an act regulating the principles of breeding dogs, cats and pets, or possibly adding regulations in this respect to the Animal Protection Act, because they simply do not exist – says Agnieszka Łyp-Chmielewska.
The new regulations – if the Sejm adopts them – could immediately be included in the so-called the chain law, which would require the registration of breeders and breeding farms, as well as impose specific requirements.
– It concerns the place where these animals are bred, the space in which they are bred, as well as determining how often a female dog or a cat can give birth to new litters – says Katarzyna Piekarska from the Parliamentary Group for the Protection of Animal Rights, an MP from the Civic Coalition.
The proposed regulations are also intended to specify the care to be taken of dogs that are retiring from the farm, like Bayron.
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