a team of government vets have been working with four paws, the country s biggest animal welfare charity, to try to crack down on this illegal trade. criminal gangs are now moving into the puppy trade, so the vets have asked that we mask their identity. the team is finding an increase in the number of online ads linked to the illegal puppy trade. it s not really difficult to find suspicious ads online. this ad just says boxer puppies . they are asking 1,200 euros per puppy. and i got this picture of the father. i checked the picture with google lens and found this picture here. it s a stolen picture. this can t be the father dog.
investigated on allegations of rape and people trafficking. they all deny wrongdoing. now on bbc news, our world: inside the illegal puppy trade. chloe, would we like to be in a video about how much i love you? and you, bambi? dogs have never been more popular. in the uk, we bought 3.2 million pets during lockdown. in europe, puppies are now a multibillion euro industry. but where are all these puppies coming from? for the first time, our world unveils a criminal underworld of puppy traders trafficking dogs across europe.
once the puppies are out of hungary, illegal traders have to create a story around the puppies to sell them. a team of government vets have been working with four paws, the country s biggest animal welfare charity, to try to crack down on this illegal trade. criminal gangs are now moving into the puppy trade so the vets have asked that we mask their identity. the team is finding an increase in the number of online ads linked to the illegal puppy trade.
so the vets have asked that we mask their identity. the team is finding an increase in the number of online ads linked to the illegal puppy trade. it s not really difficult to find suspicious ads online. this ad just says boxer puppies . they are asking 1,200 euros per puppy. and i got this picture of the father. i checked the picture with google lens and found this picture here. it s a stolen picture. this can t be the father dog. this is a fake account set up to look like the puppy was from a family home. selling a small number of puppies born from your own pets is perfectly legal. but in order to sell large numbers of puppies,
then the site is defined as a puppy mill. the nebih decides that that s not the case in this instance and they will only impose a fine and inspect again in the near future. but the decision is contentious. this is a qualified case. if you don t treat an ear infection, then it goes down and down and down, and that is animal cruelty. our world contacted pupsau but they did not respond. the booming puppy trade in hungary is attracting traders from all over europe. some of them come to markets looking for a cheap deal. once they collect enough puppies for a shipment, they send them off legally to their clients. edina has come to kecskemet market, looking for puppy sellers. edina s concerned that puppies