40 endless hours journey from Ungary to south of Italy and than be sort to different shops. This was the destiny holding 32 of the most sought after breed puppies. Because even now a lot of customers ignore the amount of illegality, misery and pain behind animal movements.
This poor puppies were confiscated by italian finance police with OIPA guards’ s supervision and coordination.
Now some of them are safe in OIPA volunteers’ s hands which are trying to find them a good family.
Some others unfortunately are not.
In fact, after health checks some puppies were found parvovirus – positive. This means that had to run to the veterinary clinic and, unfortunately, the weakest ones didn’t make it and died.
Finance police’s checks showed some irregularity on dog’s travel documents. Contrary to the low most of the puppies were younger than 3 months and 21 days. Which is the minimum age required to move to Italy because of the vaccination policy. Some of them were just 50 – 70 days young.
The dealers falsified the puppies’ s passports which was the only proof available to attest the anti- rabies vaccination. Furthermore, the kind of journey thay had to face was absolutely not appropriate to their early age.
The smaggler and the driver may have at least chosen the shortest way to reach Italy by land passing through the north- east italian crossing place (20 hours journey).
But they decided to cross Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and than a stretch by the sea.
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“DON’T SHOP, ADOPT!”
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