Rescue centres filling up with puppies as lockdown demand for pets ends

DOG breeding needs to be heavily regulated. People are so incredibly shallow to demand puppies of a certain breed (as a status symbol) and not even give a thought to an older rescue dog/cat in need of a good home. If you truly love animals you’d give them all a chance.

Laura Gulliford

IT’S a year this month I lost my two Staffies five weeks apart. We would love to have another two but seeing the prices breeders are charging it’s way out of our reach. They have been so greedy over lockdown. Now people are going back to work they are dumping the pups they have bought plus breeders can’t sell the little ones. I don’t know who are the worst, the sellers or buyers.

Ann Williams

BREEDERS charging huge prices for puppies because people will pay it. Only last week I was talking to someone who had paid £2,000 for a Cavalier.

Sheila Griffiths “ludicrous”.

There are many other complex issues other than the enormous amount of damage to the environment, which include flooding issues and pollution from traffic on one of Cardiff’s busiest roads (the latter already contributes significantly to pollution-related deaths).

Unless you have visited the area, live here, or indeed take your children to the local school you will have little understanding of the profound impact this will have on the community.

Save the Northern Meadows campaigners, which include cancer patients, are some of the least selfish people you could ever wish to meet. Their efforts over the years should be applauded as they have worked tirelessly to gather factual evidence to prove how deeply flawed the Velindre NHS Trust’s plans are.

Some people assume the centre will have an inpatient ward for cancer patients who will therefore have access to other medical and surgical specialities. This is not the case and just one of many important reasons why it should not be a “standalone” day centre. Neither will it have a teen cancer unit like the one at the University Hospital of Wales.

More than 160 consultants did speak out in a letter to Vaughan Gething in February this year but have been ignored and other specialists’ concerns about building a standalone centre have also been disregarded.

I hope, especially during this week during the COP26 climate talks taking place, more readers will gain a better understanding of why local people are opposing the siting of this new centre.

Pamela Coombes Whitchurch, Cardiff