Uploaded January 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A puppy farm (also sometimes referred to as a puppy mill) is a medium to large-scale commercial dog breeding enterprise, with the emphasis of the endeavour solely aimed at turning the maximum amount of profit for the minimum amount of effort and investment. Puppy farms for dogs are the equivalent of battery farms for chickens, and the care, welfare and living conditions of the dogs and puppies kept and housed as part of a puppy farming establishment are by their very nature, sub-par, and unfit for purpose.
Commercial dog breeders must be registered with their local authority and inspected and certified to trade in puppies, something that many puppy farms will never be able to achieve. Ergo, many puppy farms and puppy mills are in fact, illegal within Great Britain, although the checks and standards currently required to register as a commercial dog breeder are not particularly stringent, and so local authority registration should not be taken as a standalone indicator of a healthy living environment for commercially bred puppies, nor of responsible breeding.
Why all potential puppy owners should avoid buying a farmed puppy
Responsible dog breeders have one goal at the forefront of their minds: producing happy, healthy and fit puppies on a small scale, from much loved sires and dams that are carefully cared for and treated with love and respect for the duration of their lives, even after their breeding days are over. Puppy farms simply aim to produce the maximum amount of viable puppies from their dogs as quickly and as cheaply as possible, paying little regard to the health and happiness of the dogs involved.
Breeding dogs kept by puppy farms are simply used as cash cows, producing litter after litter of puppies until their failing health means that they are discarded, often given up to anyone who will take them, abandoned, or destroyed. As puppy farming by the means described above is often unlicensed and illegal, dogs and puppies kept and raised within a puppy farming environment rarely if ever receive veterinary care or treatment, and routinely live in unhealthy conditions while being poorly treated and slaughtered or left to die if they are unable to be sold or used for breeding.
Please help stop puppy farming by supporting #LucysLaw.
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A puppy farm (also sometimes referred to as a puppy mill) is a medium to large-scale commercial dog breeding enterprise, with the emphasis of the endeavour solely aimed at turning the maximum amount of profit for the minimum amount of effort and investment. Puppy farms for dogs are the equivalent of battery farms for chickens, and the care, welfare and living conditions of the dogs and puppies kept and housed as part of a puppy farming establishment are by their very nature, sub-par, and unfit for purpose.
Commercial dog breeders must be registered with their local authority and inspected and certified to trade in puppies, something that many puppy farms will never be able to achieve. Ergo, many puppy farms and puppy mills are in fact, illegal within Great Britain, although the checks and standards currently required to register as a commercial dog breeder are not particularly stringent, and so local authority registration should not be taken as a standalone indicator of a healthy living environment for commercially bred puppies, nor of responsible breeding.
Why all potential puppy owners should avoid buying a farmed puppy
Responsible dog breeders have one goal at the forefront of their minds: producing happy, healthy and fit puppies on a small scale, from much loved sires and dams that are carefully cared for and treated with love and respect for the duration of their lives, even after their breeding days are over. Puppy farms simply aim to produce the maximum amount of viable puppies from their dogs as quickly and as cheaply as possible, paying little regard to the health and happiness of the dogs involved.
Breeding dogs kept by puppy farms are simply used as cash cows, producing litter after litter of puppies until their failing health means that they are discarded, often given up to anyone who will take them, abandoned, or destroyed. As puppy farming by the means described above is often unlicensed and illegal, dogs and puppies kept and raised within a puppy farming environment rarely if ever receive veterinary care or treatment, and routinely live in unhealthy conditions while being poorly treated and slaughtered or left to die if they are unable to be sold or used for breeding.
Please help stop puppy farming by supporting #LucysLaw.
More details at mirror.co.uk/all-about/lucys-law?service=responsive
