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There's an item on Radio 4 now about people buying poorly bred pups and then not being able to afford the inevitable vets bills, so passing them on to charities.
And, apparently, dogs with behavioural issues - aggression, separation anxiety...
Markyboy-
Another issue is anecdotally from puppy support groups I'm a member of, I've seen a huge increase in the amount of 'rescue' dogs being sent over from Romania and nearby countries because it's cheaper than paying for a pup bred here. I think some people are going to be taking on a much more difficult situation than they realise and I hope they don't all end up in rescues here.
Mine is KC registered with a trackable lineage but one of my best friends got a cockapoo a month before us and when I asked him he didn't even really know what the KC is let alone if the breeder was reputable.
Sumo
There was a fairly interesting BBC program about it recently
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09nl348/britains-puppy-boom-counting-the-cost
The increase in dog theft has me worried. We paid a lot of money for ours but I don't know when else I'd have been able to work from home for a year until I retire.