Dogs Trust Takes Its ‘A Dog Is For Life, Not Just For Christmas®’Message To The Streets, As Research Predicts The Start Of The Online Puppy-Buying Rush

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Dogs Trust, the UK’s largest dog welfare charity, is taking to the streets in a bid to stop thousands of puppies being bought without due consideration this Christmas, only to be heartlessly abandoned soon after.  Every day Dogs Trust takes in dogs of all shapes and sizes, often accompanied by unbelievable reasons why their owners are giving them up. 

To convey the charity’s iconic slogan ‘A Dog is For Life, Not Just for Christmas®’, twelve striking artworks have been designed to depict the shocking reasons given to stunned Dogs Trust staff, across their 20 Rehoming Centres in the UK, by owners who no longer wish to care for their dogs. Launched in London on Monday 24th November that marked the day traffic to internet sites selling puppies peaks as consumers begin to search for Christmas presents

The shocking reasons include: –

– “He kept chasing frogs”

– “He looked different after we walked him in the rain”

– “He was too loving and needed too much attention” 

– “I’m worried our toddler will copy him and poo in the garden”

– “He’s too playful – we haven’t sat down since we got him”

– “My dog is old and going to die soon” 

– “He was scared of the cat next door ”

– “He barks every morning”

– “He wags his tail too much”

– “She’s seems hungry all the time and follows me around the house” 

– “He kept coughing in the night and woke me up”

– “All the puppy did was sleep.  We wanted a dog we could play with”

Sadly, the huge increase in online pet selling has led to many irresponsible breeders and dealers turning to the internet to advertise their puppies, resulting in the impulse or inappropriate buying of pets becoming a significant welfare concern.

Giles Webber, responsible for rehoming at Dogs Trust’s 20 rehoming centres commented:

With more and more puppies flooding the Christmas market, all available at the click of a button -it is more essential than ever that our iconic message “A Dog is For Life, Not Just For Christmas®” is ingrained in people’s minds. We hope that this visually striking campaign will encourage people to think twice about the commitment of dog ownership before impulsively buying a puppy. Our aim is to ensure that the artwork will be the only abandoned dogs the British public will see on their streets this Christmas period.”

The Leeds artwork is on a wall at Vicar Lane car park.

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