This was the shocking scene found by inspectors from Bristol’s Trading Standards, after they were called to reports that a man was running an illegal dog breeding operation in the east of the city.
Pregnant dogs and puppies were being illegally imported into the UK and kept in cramped and ‘appalling’ cages in a house in the Kingswood area of the city, and the seriousness of the case that has finally been brought to court has prompted the Mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, to issue a plea to people to do their research before buying a puppy.
Shocked Trading Standards officers first began to investigate back in April 2020 and a number of people and different addresses connected to the operation were monitored and investigated. When they went into the house on Two Mile Hill Road, they were appalled at what they found.
