These are Camarthen Councils annual licencing fees's.

Very low really......

The Annual Fees as from 1st April 2004 are:

A few weeks have passed since I have been down to Wales again, and whilst I love seeing my mother, the gossip was worth the trip.

            Some of my friends know I am poking about for information, and have joined in my quest. I even have a person able to give me inside council info, which is very useful. I wanted to know how many licensed puppy farms there were around me and if since the animal welfare act was passed that farmers had been prosecuted. Around my mothers the vets have leaflets about this act, and one paragraph reads some thing about animals must be able to display their natural behaviour, or that is deemed as cruelty. Now I may be stupid but I could not understand why puppy farmers had not been prosecuted. Natural behaviour for a dog is to be able to exercise in the fresh air. If you were to be told these dogs living in pig pens were let free in their fields every day, they would be muddy, they would be able to walk on leads, or they would be obedient. All you would need to do is open the door to the dogs accommodation, if it ran out and came when called great, but no one I know knows any puppy farmer who ever takes their dogs out unless mating them! So there they rot in that pig sty making money for a farmer born with no conscience, love, or any thing much other than greed, and there is the head of Carmarthen council environmental health saying publicly and to the news papers that there is no problem with farming in Carmarthen, Yes sure if you are able to turn a blind eye, or are just plain stupid.

            Talk about stupid, lets talk about the council and there pounds. Would you allow the person driving your school bus to be a paedophile? Well how come one of the dog wardens was caught and it was reported he had been badger baiting in the paper. I was told one is an unlicensed breeder too, but I have not been able to check those facts. 

            I know as a teenage I worked at a pound, I was amazed at the scams dog wardens and pound owners pull on the council. The dogs that disappear and the dogs double booked in for less work for warden and more revenue for the pound owner. I have seen all of this in another area so feel sure it happens here too. 

    Back to the animal welfare law, who is policing this, what do you know No one! Council never agreed to and RSPCA are way to busy setting up phone lines for you to donate cash. Interestingly those lines are free and you can get straight through, but if you see some one beating a dog, dragging it from a bumper act, you pay premium rate and hang on, oh 25 min often.

     What was the point of this act, what’s it doing? Does the butt start and stop with the council, yup I think so. Expose their lack of caring, their relatives who do it, their employees too. (Wish a national newspaper read this and took action.) Clean up Wales for dogs. Most puppy farms would shut as they could not afford to rebuild runs and humane facilities, oh yes but hold on, its not about the dogs  suffering for the council, its about money in pockets, industry in Wales, and greed!

 

 

 

Here are some contact details.....(From Camarthen Councils web site)

Animal Welfare

Within Carmarthenshire, animal control is a high profile service, providing not only the control of stray dogs, but also many other aspects regarding Animal Welfare.

For further information about the above services, please click on the right-hand menu links. There are also a number of leaflets available from the Council, which cover Animal Welfare issues that can be requested by Contacting Us .

Contact Information:

If you require any further information on Animal Welfare, please contact:

Tel: 0845 658 0445

Email  contactcentre@carmarthenshire.gov.uk .

The address of the Commercial Services Section is:

Commercial Services Section
Public Protection
3 Spilman Street
Carmarthen
Carmarthenshire
SA31 1LE