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Welsh dog breeding regulations

Lobbying urged to amend proposed changes

The Kennel Club (KC) has called for urgent help to improve dog breeding regulations in Wales by changing the current draft proposals.

As it stands, only pressure from Assembly Members (AMs) to Alun Davies, the Minister for Natural Resources, will enable the proposals to be reconsidered.

The organisation has voiced its concern that the draft Animal Welfare (Breeding of Dogs) (Wales) Regulations 2013 will put too much pressure on the "already overstretched" local authorities.

It is therefore asking Welsh residents to lobby their AMs over passing the responsibility of inspecting breeder premises to either a local authority inspector or an independent inspector, such as the UKAS accredited KC Assured Breeder Scheme.

"The draft regulations will be debated in the Welsh Assembly on July 2, so we really are running out of time to lobby AMs," said the KC secretary, Caroline Kisko.

"We urgently need people's help to put pressure on the elected representatives in Wales to ensure that any new regulations are a genuine and workable improvement on current measures."

Ms Kisko added that the KC is offering to share the burden, pool resources and stop the local authorities from having to double up on work that has already been undertaken, by sharing information.

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