How to identify an intensive breeding
facility

Do you suspect an intensive breeding facility is operating in your community? Below are some tips on what to look out for:

Sale channels

Intensive breeding facilities primarily sell wholesale to pet shops, but they also often advertise in newspaper classifieds and online pet sites.
Intensive breeders usually will not provide a street address and will not let you visit and view the puppies or kittens at the breeding facility. Instead, they will arrange to meet somewhere away from the facility.
Intensive breeders will not let you view the parents of the puppies or kittens, often making excuses as to why this is not possible.
Intensive breeders often mislead prospective buyers by using a false house as a 'shop front' to make it appear as though the puppies or kittens were born in the home.
Intensive breeders may require payment (or a substantial deposit) prior to delivery.

Conditions

Breeding animals at intensive breeding facilities spend their lives in confinement and may never be allowed out of their cage to exercise, play, socialise, or even go to the toilet.
Animals are kept in overcrowded cages and a filthy environment.
Animals do not recive adequate veterinary care or general health care (such as grooming and parasite control).
As a result of the poor conditions, breeding animals and their offspring frequently develop long-term health and/or behavioural issues.

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