[doganjo]

This was a blatant theft of two 6 week old Springer pups - please circulate as far and wide as you can.
http://doglost.co.uk/poster.php?dogId=30169
Man phoned to view pups then said could not come as wife had broken her ankle. Then re-phoned to say not a break but bad sprain so will still come. Arrive ask if can take pups to car as wife cannot get out. Car had been turned around one man in drivers seat - a lady on back seat with car door open- man in photo pushes owner out of way throws pups into car and speeds off. This is an R or S reg green VW passat.

[SallyintNorth]

What an awful story.  I do hope they get their puppies back.

[JulieS]

Wow.....What a dreadful thing to happen.

Hope they get the puppies back.

[Sandy]

So horrid, I wonder if they were thinking about using her for puppy farming? Hope they get her back soon.

[doganjo]

So horrid, I wonder if they were thinking about using her for puppy farming? Hope they get her back soon.

They took two of them.

[Sandy]

I thought I read 2, thats even worse 

[robate55]

God now I'm worried - luckily my only unbooked Springer puppy has not been advertised yet. Someone I know only lets people come to see her pups if they give their type & no of car first. She also says she will take pictures of people when they arrive to view. I think I may follow her example.
Rose

[sabrina]

Hope they catch the sods 

[shearling]

It was a very mean thing to do. I am suprised they were so blatent, could be easy to get caught this way so they must have worked out their escape carefully and, or not have had a single track road or similar that could have stopped them. Other than for a puppy farm (or in a local case curry - dog microchip found in the takeaway) they would not be of much value surely? Around where we live there are masses of springer pups for sale and it only those with papers that sell.

[HappyHippy]

or in a local case curry - dog microchip found in the takeaway

That's shocking  BUT might it have been one from a slaughtered 'micro' pig ?

[Sandy]

I would think that a lot of people could be fooled by pretend papers, I know they will not be registered but the buyer may not have seen a reg document or understand the procedure of the Kennel Club, so they could still be sold at a profit.

Years ago, when I was a little girl, people were buying up litters of pups to make fur coats!!!!

[sabrina]

That's just to sick for words 

[doganjo]

Pups sell for a lot of money without papers because Joe Public is gullible.  I know of unregistered Brittanys making £350, mine are £500, my friends in England charge £650, and Bringers (cross Springer/Brittany) are selling for £800!  It's a mad old world

[shearling]

Re the curry - The chip got stuck in someones tooth and the dentist and police identified it. Local shop closed at the moment! I agree that you could forge papers but surely if you are going to pay that much (these days) you check with the registries be it KKGB, cat regs or other animal socs? Also Dogandjo why are Bringers seen to be worth so much? Thats more than double than you pay for excellent champion pedigree working Springers in the south west UK - or maybe its that we have a glut of them here?

I know that cats are still being used off and on for the fur trade. I keep my sheep/fowl/pigs to eat - no names and humane - otherwise I would be a veggie. And we use everthing we can from them and respect them totally for feeding us.

I remember seeing a dreadful BBC film of people skinning foxes alive. Now I am no friend of Mr Fox and the way they treat chickens and fowl. But it is in their nature to do so and for us to protect our birds from them - including removing the foxes, but... My mind still replays those images of animals just kept for their coats and most importantly stripped alive and tossed aside to die of the shock. Ditto dogs for the table another BBC film. But these BBC films have and still do make me stop and think, make judgements on my own morals and in a challenging way make me tunning into my moral compass.

[doganjo]

Bringers are that expensive because the woman who is selling them asks for that much and gets it because the gullible british public think with a name like that they will retrieve without being trained to! Duh!