Sad end to pup passport crime

Downie, Cabinet Member for Safer and Stronger Communities, said: “I don’t think people realise that by paying a bargain price for a designer dog you may be buying a puppy brought into this country illegally. “And it could have been bred on a puppy farm and taken away from the mother too young, leaving it susceptible to illness.” Although I feel some sympathy for the buyers, I think they should also accept some blame. It is never responsible to buy a puppy from anyone without first seeing it with its mother. And it is beyond me why anyone would support the dog breeding trade when healthy animals are being put down by rescue centres every week because they can’t be re-homed. Everyone loses in this tale of a pet dealer who sold a French bulldog puppy online. Artur Zuchowicz was convicted of breaking consumer protection regulations after lying about the puppy’s age and was fined £3,421. Meanwhile, the buyers in Plymouth had the heartache of seeing the animal die after it suffered seizures. Zuchowicz, 33, from Kidwell in Carmarthenshire, sold the puppy for £550 with a Pet Passport that had a false date of birth, wrongly suggesting it was old enough to have been given the rabies vaccine. In mitigation, he told Plymouth magistrates he no longer has a pet shop licence and has become a fisherman. The case was brought by Plymouth City Council’s Trading Standards. Councillor Dave

CUTE But French bulldog like this died