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Marc Abraham with a canine friend
I would like to practice again in the future. Right now however I have to be all over everything at Westminster to make the most positive impact on our animal welfare campaigns.
animal welfare even if it’s as simple as making or sharing posts on social media.
What inspired you to set up PupAid? I was trying to work out how to When did you first become actively raise awareness and help educate involved in animal welfare? the public. The triggers and It all started with helping a drivers for buying puppy-farmed tortoise at one level and being dogs are driven by celebrity obsessed with nature at another trends. French Bulldogs for level. When I started to see instance are very puppy farmed as puppies with Parvovirus coming are cross-breeds such as the into my practice I started to work Cockapoo. The celebrity influence out the puppy farming chain. is massive. It made me angry to see puppies with Parvo, as it is entirely preventable. I found out where they were bred and that’s where the campaigning started. I really believe that everyone is capable of making a difference to
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On the other hand, PupAid has a huge celebrity following. Our annual PupAid event is a fun dog show to be held on September 5 in Primrose Hill. It’s got a huge celebrity support. It’s being compered by Annabelle Giles with lots of other celebrity supporters. Pets Magazine
All proceeds go to animal charities, as PupAid is a community interest company which means that it’s entirely voluntary and all profits have to be given away. We nominate four charities a year such as the Mayhew Animal Home and the Oldies Club. Do you think puppy farming will ever be stopped? And how? I don’t think it will ever be stopped entirely but we can reduce it. PupAid campaigns to stop puppies being sold in pet shops and online without the puppies being seen with their mothers. Pet shops are the final part of the supply chain; puppies are being transported hundreds of miles from where they’re bred.