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Breeders Beware!

Sirius Global Animal Organisation has been campaigning against the export of dogs from New Zealand to Asian countries, especially Korea and China.

The following is a conversation held with a Chinese National who is now residing in New Zealand and has first hand information to share with us all.

Given that over 50 000 pet dogs have been slaughtered in Yunnan, China recently, the information below should be a clear and distinct warning to any breeder who thinks their animals are going to a safe environment. China does not have an animal welfare policy and there seems doubt it will in the immediate future.

It is about time that the almighty dollar took a back seat!


"I am very happy to put our conversation to the website. I think I 've browsed your website. Have you wrote a mail to NZKC about export of dogs to China (2 years ago I think, about the end of 2004)? I read the article and wrote my reply to NZKC but was told the topic had been closed so NZKC did not publish my articles.

"I am very clear about the kennel name "BUCKINGHAM" border collies in BeiJing China. The 'kennel' is a puppy mill. Mr Shen, the owner of Buckingham, is from Taiwan. He realised mainland China is a big market so he moved to China mainland with plans to establish a kennel. His adventure began in New Zealand 2001-2002 where he collected border collies. He stayed with an European man in Hamilton (Dornbrae Border Collies) and visited nearly all big border collie kennels in NZ. Although some refused, others sold dogs to him. He went back to China with 8 dogs but he couldn't take the dogs back to China directly so he flew them to TaiWan first then smuggled them to China mainland. He did a lot of advertising in chinese magazines with misleading statements that border collie is apartment dog and invented ridiculous standards for border collies (must have white tail tip + four white feet + full white collar + nice white marked face). His main market is chinese wealthy people. In china, these wealthy people like to spend thousands to buy a pedigree dog to show off. So Mr Shen exactly cornered the market so every puppy he sold for at least $7000NZD ($4400US). Perfect marked puppy bitch from $12,000NZD. Mr Shen put some breeders dogs photo on his website without their permission and claimed that all his puppies have world top bloodlines, whereas all the puppies were whatever he could collect from New Zealand or Australian. His business developed very well.

"After Mr Shen then many puppy brokers realised border collies sell well in China so they followed his steps to hunt the border collies in New Zealand and Australian. Now nearly all NZ border collie breeders have received email enquiries from China. Some refuse but some others do sell. As I discovered many border collie breeders would like sell dogs to China because of the easy money. I did lots of educating to show them how people in China treat border collies there but some breeders choose to ignore. I feel very frustrated because I know what will happen to these puppies but they refused to believe.

"In China ,there are no breeders, only puppy mills. No one realizes how important it is to do selective breeding, they only know to get good dogs for breeding then sell puppies for money. This is what I've seen. Many pet owners still think desexing is cruel to animals. No media promotes how to be a responsible owner or what you should do for your dogs or how to correctly care for dogs. There is a very long way for China to go in changing the attitude towards the domestic animals and also need to establish strict laws to ban the cruelty offences.

"In China, there is not any law to protect domestic animals. Recently I heard China joined FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale is the World Canine Organisation) and became a contract member (not associate member) . Many chinese animal lovers hope CKU (CHINA KENNELS UNION) can be pioneer of against animal cruelty but unfortunately have been told that this organisation does not involve itself in any such activities. Their main task is attract as many members as possible to pay the membership fee, register pedigree for even non-pedigree dogs and also to organise dog shows. CKU has become a profit organisation!! They have no breeder ethics, no breed standards, no championship contests. All they do is ask people to join the club, pay membership fees and host dog shows (charge $80 NZD/entry).

"Sad stories happen in China everyday. The Government kills the dogs everyday. In beijing breeds higher than 35 CM at the shoulder are not allowed. Dogs over 35 CM can not be registered with the city council. Without being registered they cannot survive. In China there is no official animal shelter. The police take the dogs which are kept illegally and kill them and you have no chance to take your dog back.
http://www.petol.net/news.asp?id=2006073011052310411
"The recent news in YuNan China. Because the government suspect Canine Rabies, they kill all the dogs ! The stupid government is not aware canine rabies not only exists in dogs but also cats, rats and other animals!!! They just kill all the dogs!!
http://bbs.shangdaot.com/dispbbs.asp?boardid=27&id=1841&star=1&page=1ry:2
Also some people enjoy killing dogs.

"It is very hard to see the dogs been killed everyday!! I hope some breeders here in New Zealand can help spread concern about this news.

"Thank you very much for standing by me against sending dogs to China!!"






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