Submitted on Monday 21st May 2018
Rejected on Tuesday 29th May 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Limit number of dogs brought to the UK as commercial imports to 8 per vehicle
An estimated 30,000 dogs from the EU enter the UK each year as commercial imports. In 2013 the number was 1,869.
The majority of dogs are "rescue dogs", up to 50 in a van, from Romania, Bosnia, Serbia & Bulgaria. Many with falsified passports and have not been vaccinated against rabies nor wormed.
Barnaby's Law, is a campaign named after an illegal dog now in quarantine. We're not against re-homing from abroad but diseases we eradicated or never had are on the increase and dogs with no RBU are putting strain on our own shelters. With exceptions, for movement of dogs numbering +5, we propose they travel on a commercial license with a max of 8 dogs per vehicle. Smaller vans would reduce the carbon footprint and smaller animal number would also be more beneficial to the animals welfare.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the UK Government or Parliament to take a specific action. We understand that you're concerned about dogs being brought into the UK, but we're not sure what you'd like the UK Government and Parliament to do.
At the moment a maximum of five pets can travel with their owner. We're not sure whether you want to increase the number of pets that can travel with their owner; create a new system for people who want to sell puppies in the UK; or do something else to ensure that dogs travelling to the UK are healthy and cared for appropriately.
Last year, the House of Commons Library produced a research pack on puppy smuggling. You can read it here:
researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CDP-2017-0205
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
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