Inaction de Québec face aux usines à chiots

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Quebec is ignoring hundreds of puppy mills where dogs live in filth and eat their young while locked in cages for days on end, charges a lawsuit filed by the founder of an Ontario animal shelter.

A Quebec Superior Court judge recently granted Nicole Joncas permission to sue the province's attorney general, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and Anima-Quebec, the government-funded group responsible for enforcing animal-rights laws.

Joncas, who runs Teja's Animal Refuge in Ontario, says she decided to take legal action after government inaction over a suspected puppy mill just west of Montreal.

"You cannot see something like that and just walk away," said Joncas, who toured the operation along with a former employee in 2005.

Along with the former employee, Joncas took pictures and video to document what she called a "canine hell."

The former employee, Gilles Potvin, swore in a statement filed in court that some 400 dogs were housed in an old factory in Ste-Justine-de-Newton, Que.

He said there was no central heating, dogs were living in excrement and many had taken to eating their young.

Joncas said the animals devoured their pups out of mercy.

"The building reeked of dog feces and urine at all times," Potvin said in the affidavit. "They (the dogs) are left in these cages from birth to death."

None of the allegations contained the lawsuit have been proven in court.

The breeding centre, which is run by Montreal-based Lamarche and Pinard, isn't being sued, but its operation is cited as the reason for the suit.

A representative of the company said no one was available to comment on Thursday.

Joncas's bone of contention lies more with Quebec government officials, who she says repeatedly ignored evidence of abuse at Ste-Justine-de-Newton.

"They were obliged, by their own laws, to close down this place," Joncas said in an interview.

"Quebec has the notorious reputation of being the puppy-mill capital of Canada."

Joncas estimates Quebec has some 2,000 abusive underground breeding operations.

(Dans les faits, il y en aurait 800 à ce que l'on m'a dit, et non pas 2,000, mais 800 c'est déjà trop !)

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[Caro18 0]

En plus des usines à chiots, il y a aussi des gens sans scrupule qui font de la reproduction dans les maisons et les logements pour arrondir les fins de mois, c'est aussi un fléau qui prend de l'ampleur, nous n'avons qu'à regarder les petites annonces dans les journaux et sur internet pour s'en rendre compte!

[Animal 0]

C'est vrai qu'il n'y en a jamais tant eu !

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Actuellement, plusieurs usines à chiots confient leurs chiens à des particuliers. Plusieurs éleveurs d'usine procèdent maintenant ainsi pour éviter de se faire démanteler en tant qu'usine.