Gormley challenged on puppy farm legislation

WELL done on your editorial (June 23) calling for Government action on puppy farms.

Many will have seen on TV the appalling suffering of dogs taken from a puppy farm in Co Wicklow. Sadly, these conditions are not unique to one puppy farm as many dogs are incarcerated for life in these hell-holes throughout the country.

While the lucky ‘suitable’ puppies go to loving homes, the parent dogs live in cramped and often filthy conditions — their lives an endless cycle of reproduction so that unsuspecting families can have that cute pedigree puppy for a top price. The parent dogs are so overbred they eventually end up physically damaged or unable to accept any more litters due to exhaustion.