PUPPY FARMER IN OPERATION DESPITE BBC & LOCAL COUNCIL CONCERN AND LEGAL ACTION - PETPLAN INSURANCE ADVERTISING THEIR PUPS. The pet insurance company PetPlan have a link on their website called "find a pet!". If you click it you can look at basset hounds for sale and will see some advertised at a very reasonable price. Have a look -
http://www.findapet.petplan.co.uk/index ... arch=false.
If you Google the phone number on the advert you'll see that the advertiser also has several ads online, each for a different breed. These seperate ads are for:
bassett
beagle
Cavalier KC
yorkie
Chihuahua
Shih Tzu
Bichon Frise
West Highland White
Pomeranian Cross
Cocker spaniel
She also advertises many breeds in one single ad - these dogs are:
Labradors – various colours
Cocker Spaniels
Cavaliers
Bassett Hounds
Boxers
Old English Sheepdogs
Pomeranians
Westies
Shih Tzu
Beagles
Yorkshire Terriers
Cross breeds sometimes available
as well as ads for ponies and for Cavaliers, Shih tzu, Westies, Boxers & Pug X Pekingese.
The advertiser is a well known puppy farmer, featured on the BBC TV programme Inside Out East - see here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcy5XkB7xxA
MANY PUPPIES HAVE DIED WITHIN A FEW DAYS OF LEAVING RUNWELL KENNELS. PARVO AND SEPTICIMIA HAVE BEEN AMONGST THE CAUSES.
There is judgement made upon her under the sale of goods act here:
http://www.oft.gov.uk/advice_and_resour ... ers/716/1/
The owner of this puppy farm, which has been known as Dobe Farm. Hot Dogs Kennels and now trades under Runwell Kennels, is Loretta Toye, also known as Loretta Bastin. I believe she works with a daughter/daughter in law named Clare Toye. More info on this can be found on the Puppy Love website if any of you are members and can access this (I'm not so I can't). Runwell Kennels, as it is now known, is in Wickford in Essex.
The dogs are not with their mothers and Toye/Bastin won't say where they come from.
The kennels are STILL in operation - the PetPlan advert is dated 2nd October 2009. Please join me in emailing PetPlan about this advert.
It is a fact that Petplan have a history of insuring similar puppy farms - and that they know it. I am also forwarding this to David Whiteley (
david.whiteley@bbc.co.uk" ) and would ask that others also ask him to follow up the story, using their own words as your emails will no doubt have more chance of being taken notice of if so.
PetPlan -
petplan.csm@allianz.co.uk"
