All round the world there is an assumption that the Brits love dogs, and according to Napoleon they are a nation of shop keepers as well. Pet Shops and Puppy Farms are encouraged and work well together to supply poorly bred, badly reared, puppies to the dog loving UK consumer with no thought for their parents left literally in the dark in Welsh sheds.
Pictures and videos of the Welsh puppy farms can be found on You Tube, but none of the breeders identified by the (easily googled) Y Byd Ar Bedwar puppy farming documentaries were prosecuted for cruelty despite the colossal amount of evidence. There is simply no wish to prevent the trade in miserable puppies in Wales.
Most of the breeders operate outside the law for years and when they come to public attention a breeding licence is sent overnight to them without investigation according to the anti puppy farming leagues in the UK.
Dylan Jones is one of the Welsh puppy farmers who was recently obliged to apply for planning permission. A concerned neighbour sent us a copy of the retrospective planning application, its frankly breath taking!.For a start “retrospective” means the farmer has been breeeding outside the law and the council choses to make him legal rather than remove the dogs to safety and prosecute him as is their duty .
Instead of the original 9 breeding dogs in 1994 there were in fact 196 on his farm, solely “cared for” by himself who runs a farm and his wife who works for the council. 2 part time workers 196 dogs don’t add up at all. Some photos were taken in support of the planning application and people understandably made the mistake of thinking that the pictures were of agricultural buildings not dog kennels. This is from a letter from the Council included among the planning documents 
Have a look! Do these look like a well run dog 
kennels with heated runs and some form of enrichment to make lives less boring or does it look like a dirty cold dark grim shed for storing equipment .
I’ve read the whole planning application which is being pushed at the council as good for local business and nowhere is there any thought of the lives the victims will lead, stuck in these narrow kennels with litter after litter of puppies for their short over productive lives. 
The ultimate insult to our companion animals is to be found at the bottom of this picture of the kennels. Does anyone think these 196 dogs will be well cared for by Dylan Jones? Or that they will be HAPPY?
Wales has countless similar puppy farms but it is rare to see the blatant lack of care that is demonstrated in this planning application.
The farmer does not see the need for lights in his breeding sheds or even proper waste removal for nearly 200 dogs so how will these dogs live out their miserable lives? For a start one and a half workers cannot keep them clean, exercised, and free from suffering. They will have no time to examine or even notice a dog that is sick or dying. They will be unable to care for a whelping bitch in difficulties in the middle of a dark night and in fact they will not even know it is happening.
The kennels will be the same as any others we have seen licensed by Carmarthenshire, full of desperate dogs going mad with isolation and boredom, living in their own filth, caring for their puppies with dead puppies left in the bare plastic bed with the others nursing from their matted miserable sick mothers
How on earth can such places be allowed to exist in the modern world, it is nothing less than a concentration camp for dogs.
Stop puppy farming NOW
I am distressed to see that one of the “rescues” in Wales, Many Tears Rescue does not fight these puppy farms but works with them. http://dogpolitics.co.uk/?p=249 “It’s time for Many Tears to open the books”
NO NO NO! Close them down don’t just take the worn out dogs which will just be replaced.
There is something about this one I do not like. Could it be the overblown claims of experience, the misrepresentation of a huge organisation as small or the absurd excuses for not being a proper charity?
We have seen it all here, usually it is the breeders that tell lies. If you are above board Many Tears, become a charity and join all the other groups fighting to close your puppy farms
Very sad!