Why Health Checks Are Imperative

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A prime example of why people in the UK have to stop thinking they are above the law and that regulations do not apply to them.
Picture 1 shows the dogs newly arrived in the UK. Courtesy of the same transporter who brought Barnaby in and on a Romanian passport by the same trace unit that sent Barnaby.
Picture 2 shows the dogs departing Bosnia, not in a T2 registered transporter but a car to hop across the border to Hungary. No CVED, No Croatian traces and no declaration for import duty or VAT.
Picture 3 shows the rescuer, a few days after the dogs left taking one of her dogs to the vet where it was diagnosed with parvo virus.
Picture 4 shows her cuddling the dog with no protective clothing, I hope she changed and disinfected her clothes before coming into contact with any other dogs!
Were this a registered facility and a case of parvo was reported, the facility would be quarantined and prevented from sending dogs until given the all clear. Dogs who had recently left the facility would be traced and owners told to have them tested. There are reasons for these regulations, they are not just to make animal movement more difficult for the fun of it.
There have been several outbreaks of parvo in the Tulza region and these pensions and unregistered shelters are not regulated or monitored so what happens when a dog from one of these places arrives with parvo?
If they are lucky, they will come through a decent UK rescue willing to pick up the tab at the vets or manage to raise funds with a fundraiser. Sadly, some like the little Dachshund who arrived last November, will be put to sleep.
There is no excuse for the dogs to be leaving illegally. Yes it costs more and the preparation and transport is more complicated but other countries are doing so, why not in the UK? Better still, why not use the money to really force change? Educate, help, support. Bringing thousands of dogs over is not changing anything, it fuels an illegal trade that is growing year on year.
As Lao Tzu rightly said, "give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime". You simply can not rescue every dog and the numbers are not decreasing so the current system is not impacting on the problem. Why not use your energy and money to make permanent changes and improvements instead of just funding a conveyor belt of rescuing a dog that is replaced with another dog. What is being achieved? One dog is rescued from a horrific shelter to be replaced by another? Isn't it better to fight to change the system?

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