Cute Puppies Playing with Mum | Puppy Awareness Week

As part of Puppy Awareness Week, we’re helping to raise awareness about the dangers of separating a puppy from it’s mother before it’s old enough. This wonderful Basset Fauve De Bretagne mum is still caring for her pups. but if you’re hoping to buy a puppy there are a few important considerations to take into account.

Pups and their mums have a special bond and need to be together and should stay together until the pups are at least eight weeks old.

Sadly, many pups are torn apart from their mothers on cruel puppy farms, where the bitch is bred over and again and the pups kept in terrible conditions.

Many people end up buying from puppy farms or dealers, who have set up a fake home environment, or even bought in a fake mum, to trick puppy buyers into thinking all is well.

If you are thinking about getting a puppy make sure that you always see the pup interacting with its mum.

You should be asking the breeder questions, checking the paperwork and lineage of the pups with the Kennel Club, make sure that the pup is microchipped and that the parent dogs have done the appropriate health checks.

You want to look to see that mum is in good health and has a good temperament, as an indication of how her pups are likely to be.

Visit Discover Dogs on 17 and 18 October at ExCel Exhibition Centre to spend time with more than 3000 dogs and find out more about how to buy the right breed and find the right breeder.

Discover dogs http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/events/misc-redirects/discover-dogs/

PUP AID http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/events/misc-redirects/pup-aid/

ASSURED BREEDER http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/breeding/assured-breeder-scheme

PUPPY AWARENESS WEEK www.thekennelclub.org.uk/paw

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