@rickygervais
totally understands the connection we have with dogs and while famous for another c word it’s CRUELTY he wants everyone to be aware of.
Protect our friends from pointless cruel experiments - ask your MP to back Parliament EDM 278,
This is Marshall. He's in intensive care at the vets with Parvo. His foster owners have been crying all day. If you need a physical reason to back
#LucysLaw
look into his eyes. He is fighting for his life, can you fight to make third party sales of pets stop NOW. Tell your MP
Marshall Pupdate: Julie says he's coming home at 1.30. Bright, perky & eating very well, Ttotally off iv fluids - he chewed the line - he’s got to be better to chew the line! Let's all back
#LucysLaw
Feeling happy - but sad for the pups that don't make it. Stop 3rd party sales.
Fantastic news - well done! Carla Lane Animals in Need Liverpool have secured an injunction to stop the seizure of dogs in the care of rescue organisations.
Happy New Year everyone, lets hope
@RishiSunak
listens to sense and slows down this rush to kill dogs that have done
@beverleycuddy
Carla Lane have got a temporary injunction on the seizure and euthanasia of XLs in Rescues, Small but important step 🤞 They aren't on twitter but it's on their Facebook page.
Very proud to be at the House of Commons this evening - let's get
#LucysLaw
trending and let's finally ban the cruel trade in puppies - lets make misery history - RT if you want your MP to get behind it, who wouldn't!
Proud to support
#LucysLaw
- calling for an immediate ban on the sale of puppies by pet shops & other third party commercial dealers - pls support & RT if you ❤️ puppies :)
@marcthevet
@pupaid
#wheresmum
🐕🐩🐾
Marshall updat : Still on a drip. He is stable - very low, but he perks up a bit when the vets/nurses go to him. He is not eating so a naso-gastric tube is being put in. Know anyone else with a new GSD pup? Trying to locate littermate. Support
#LucysLaw
Marshall p-update! He is a lot brighter, He has more energy, He is actually playful reducing iv fluids as he is retaining his own hydration
He’s going on to oral meds. Over next 24 hours will remove feeding tube. Improving in every way. Back
#LucysLaw
. Keep pups safe
Thank you so much for yesterday. I was so impressed
@EamonnHolmes
by your passion to end puppy farming, united we will make
#LucysLaw
happen. It would be just wonderful if you could sign and share the petition
Marshall morning update just in from Julie Botterill: "Stable overnight, still being tube fed but is starting to eat small amounts on his own, has had diarrhoea in night but starting to be more solid. Vet will call me later."
#LucysLaw
Another win for Finn! The Animal Welfare (Service Animals) Bill has passed its Second Reading in
@UKHouseofLords
. The Government will continue to support
#FinnsLaw
to give greater protection to service animals. Read more about Finn:
#FinnsLawFriday
Best news of 2017? Marshall's home! Best news of 2018? You get your MP on this list backing
#LucysLaw
:
Email them now and ask them to support an IMMEDIATE ban on 3rd party selling/ All you need is your postcode:
Well as
@SimonCowell
said, Dave and
@K9Finn
are already winners in our eyes! Lovely winner Colin Thackery the Chelsea Pensioner.
Sneaky peep at our July Cover? Recognise someone? the magic continues as we push for
#FinnsLawPart2
- so proud of Dave and
@finnforchange
Marshall P-update before bed? Julie says:"My son (who I think Julie said is 4) has tomorrow night all planned (if Marshall can come home) they are going to have a blanket on the sofa & teddies & snuggle & watch Finding Nemo because Marshall won’t have seen it yet!"
#LucysLaw
"It needs to be a ban on bad owners, not dogs."
Leigh-Catherine Salway from Save Our Bullies calls attacks by XL bully dogs 'sensationalised' by the media and believes the new rules banning the breed is a 'knee-jerk' reaction.
📺 Sky 501
While you're watching
#Crufts
with with your dogs around you, have a think about all the poor puppy farm slaves. Time to fix the system that gives dealers and farmers the profit motive to exploit our best friends. Make sure you sign and share
#LucysLaw
,
Look who was in our photographer's studio this week!
#FinnsLaw
(and don't forget
#LucysLaw
). Our best friends do so much for us, let's make sure we do all we can to protect them.
Who knew there'd be days like this...? Dogs Today has been shortlisted for a very serious journalistic award.... we do not have a cat at Crufts chance of winning it - but we're up against BBC Newsnight and the Sunday Times.... lol!
Pet theft will be debated in parliament on Mon - can you look at this and contact your MP. Did you know the law sees pets as just possessions, crooks are exploiting this... just have a look, you can make a difference.
#PetTheftReform
Please share
Here’s the petition to sign to deter pet theft! I am live on Crimewatch now but I am being told not to plug this, but this is the only way to keep pets safe. Petition: Pet Theft Reform: Amend animal welfare law to make pet theft a specific offence.
#FinnHour
We are disappointed to hear that there is insufficient parliamentary time to deal with the Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill. We had feared this may be the case.
We will be working hard over the summer to ensure that this Government Bill is high on the agenda.
Very sad news for the dogs stuck in rescue... but confusingly, good news that there will be a judicial review. So obviously room for doubt that the Gov has got this wrong, but still no pause on the killing.
I guess the only thing left is civil disobedience - for every vet to
Pets are family, the law treats them as things. Let's change that! You wonderful people - 2000 signatures now, petition only went live yesterday! make pet theft a specific offence.
#pettheftreform
We really, really need some Commons sense today - pass
#FinnsLaw
. No up skirting shockers today please Sir Christopher, yesterday police dog Axle was stabbed four times by a man resisting arrest. Brave police dogs are more than equipment. We must protect them. Everything crossed
Difficult times require extraordinary actions... here's a special edition of Dogs Today all about the ban, why it's bad news and how you can help to fight it.
Please share it as widely as you can
Papers are full of stories of puppies flooding into the country to be sold as Xmas presents online and instore. Support the 3rd party sales ban like Chris has! Good work
Friday tis the 2nd reading of the Pets(Theft) Bill. Please email and Tweet your MP NOW and let's stop it being a low risk/high reward crime.
#PETTHEFTREFORM
Please RT until it's done!
I'm aware that the clock is ticking, that the next four days will be incredibly difficult for everyone.
Not everyone is in a position to refuse and will feel tremendously conflicted
I understand that rescues who have Government contracts are in an impossible situation, public
Poor Raven, bought on Gumtree, died before Boxing Day....Back
#LucysLaw
write to you your MP now
31 MPs have backed it so far, is your MP one of them?
Are they on this list? Ask why not!
How totally tragic that a Grandmother visiting her own family was killed by their dogs.
I see the trashy parody accounts - you know those idiots - the ones that helped rush our politicians into passing this shoddy ill conceived knee jerk legislation - they have wasted no time
Julie Botterill is trying to track down the rest of the litter - can you RT?
Have you recently acquired a German Shepherd Dog pup from the Stockport area before Christmas? Just wondering how your pup isdoing?
Here's a photo of Marshall before he was hospitalised.
I am up at 5am and will talking about stolen dogs on the radio all morning. Let's try to get the petition to 100k? Please keep sharing. It needs to be a separate crime, dogs and smart phones may cost around the same, but pet theft will break your heart.
Hooray! the petition is done, talk to your MP - keep the pressure up until puppy farming and trafficking is history.
Here's the EDM - has your MP signed yet?
Here's a quick way to contact them:
or:
#LucysLaw
Don't miss BBC Watchdog tonight 8pm BBC1 featuring puppy farming. And do please tell others and share the
#LucysLaw
petition - we can change this if we unite
Wow! Four more MPs have signed!
#LucysLaw
now has 49 MPs cross party supporting. Well done to the latest MPs who are reacting to their constituents wishes:
@RuthCadbury
@Vernon_Coaker
@PGibsonSNP
@lisanandy
Well done to all those contacting their MPs, they are listening!
Fantastic Finn and Brave Dave in their own words.... extract from the book Fantastic Finn.
No mascara advised.... just saying.
Do vote for them tomorrow, the final of Britain's Got Talent.
#BGT
#FantasticFinn
@richardosman
A bit cute, dog enjoys freestyle gardening, her infinite joy. Kid loves muddy noses or paws. Quest: remove stains. Tiresome, urgent vigorous washing. X (twitter), yawn, zzzzz.
So true - how can any animal welfare charity not be 100% behind a ban on third party sales.... come on everyone, let's back
#LucysLaw
We've got cross party support so we certainly expect all the charities to be on the same page!
Terrific to be at the launch of
#LucysLaw
@HouseofCommons
today. GR8 speech from Andrew Penman from
@DailyMirror
&
@marcthevet
This is a huge campaign and exposes a lack of judgement, in my opinion, from two charities who seem to have influenced
@DefraGovUK
in the wrong direction
Why would
#LucysLaw
help prevent tragedies like Raven who was dead before Boxing Day? If 3rd party selling was illegal it would remove the shop window from this cruel trade and take the impulse shopper out of the equation. Profit fuels this business. Close it down.
Do your dogs support
#LucysLaw
? Let's get sharing photos. And think of the poor impulse purchased pups this Xmas. Marshall is in intensive care at the vets... what about the rest of his litter, how are they doing? Let's not have another Xmas were these innocents are at risk.
Well done
@marcthevet
and well done
@ZacGoldsmith
a really brilliant day for animal welfare and democracy. So many of the electorate engaged with their MPs on this issue, for many their first such interaction.
#LucysLaw
uniting the nation. A giant leap today!
Betsy showing the world that she can still love people and life despite being cruelly used and abused in a laboratory.
International supermodel and brand ambassador is a much more appropriate use of your time
@BetsyAmbassador
-
@rickygervais
is lucky to have your endorsement.
“It’s not everyday
@rickygervais
announces you as a supermodel for
#DutchBarn
Vodka! I’m so chuffed, proud, & super excited. Thank you my hero Ricky for being such a fantastic global voice for my campaign to
#EndAnimalTesting
. I love you, wooooof!” 🎉❤️🐾🐾🍹
(Sound up!)
#Dogs
Buckle-up everyone... could Justice Lane stop the madness?
Well done
@John_Cooper_QC
and
@dontbanlicence
If this was a movie you'd say hearing the injunction on the last possible day before Xmas break was overly dramatic writing.
And in terms of a screenplay, it's definitely
Keep hearing about
#LucysLaw
- want to know what it is? Here's an article from the latest issue of Dogs Monthly. Get involved, talk to your MP, this is the best chance we've ever had of saving dogs from breeding slavery and owners from the misery of pups born to suffer.
Well done everyone - 56 MPs now backing
#LucysLaw
!
Latest: Mike Gapes, Labour, Ilford South
@mikegapes
;
Tim Farron, Lib Dem, Westmorland and Lonsdale
@timfarron
;
John Grogan, Labour, Keighley +
Stephen Twigg, Labour, Liverpool West Derby
@StephenTwigg
Mayhew CEO, Caroline Yates: "We are really pleased to hear that there will be a call for evidence on banning of third party sales of animals. Getting a dog or cat is not a commercial business and the big puppy farms have no regard for the health or welfare of animals."
#LucysLaw
Incredibly cruel tweak made today by Defra to the guidance notes. Only dogs that entered rescue before October 31st can be made exempt if not rehomed by New Year's Eve. The deadline looms with yet another door being slammed. Goalposts moved - surely the time to announce this was
Will you raise a paw for
#LucysLaw
? Now is the moment you can be part of animal welfare history. Email and tweet your MPs and urge them that the country wants a ban on puppy dealers. Here's the EDM, is your MP on the list? Mps
Hooray! The world is getting to appreciate that dogs are not "things" they are family. Well done Vancouver! Come on UK - we can do this. Get behind
#LucysLaw
!
A huge day for animal welfare in parliament today
#LucysLaw
mentioned in Hansard and an Early day Motion with cross party support to ban third party sales of dogs and meeting hero dog Finn at
#APDAWG
this evening.
Promising news today from
@ZacGoldsmith
who praises
@marcthevet
for
#LucysLaw
campaign and tells Parliament during animal welfare debate: "I believe that we will see some results in the next few months and will perhaps hear from the Minister on that shortly." Fingers crossed.
Just sending one email and sharing this on your social media could make 2020 less rubbish. We want the MPs to know that while there's so much wrong in the world that's hard to put right, here's two things they can fix - in the same week!
Thanks to
@OURDOGSNEWS
for letting me write about
#LucysLaw
in this week's paper. United we can make the greatest welfare improvement - we've just got to think logically. You don't license something just because you fear it going underground? What next? Licensed dog fighting?
#APDAWG
is incredible, in such a short time so much good has been achieved. It unites people and parliament and has led to so much tangible change in a very short space of time.
#PetTheftReform
will hopefully be one of the next success stories. And great news about
@PeterEgan6
I really hope you guys have been following what's happening in the UK with
#LucysLaw
@TheMarinaTimes
@OscarsLaw
- you guy's inspired us to dream big for our best friends, that united dog lovers can change things
I couldn't fit all my thoughts about
@DogsTrust
being upset about being called out by
@PenmanMirror
so I put it all down on my Facebook page and screen grabbed it! It's time to unite for
#LucysLaw
- no matter whose toes it steps on. The dogs must always come first.
Blimey! I think I may have a crush on
@MichaelGove
-
#lucysLaw
and
#finnslaw
next! Electric shock pet collars to be banned for being 'unnecessary and cruel'
Not yet in the shops, here's our March Dogs Today article about
#LucysLaw
. If you want to order this magazine you can get itfor just £1 (in the UK) if you sign up on Direct Debit to trial the magazine:
Read and weep.... the politicians heads were turned by this... or rather their knees were moved - as they were allowed to jerk. We'll spend the next 20 years trying to sort out the mess.
My heart goes out to the vets who have to put so very many dogs to sleep in the coming
The ‘Breed specific violence and the American Bully’ report lacks citations, misrepresents academic papers and misrepresents data. The report avoided scrutiny from the media,
@CommonsEFRA
, and
@DefraGovUK
. Those who challenged were targeted with online abuse.
It was, however,
Instead of spending £18mill on a centre for 150 dogs, why not build a care village for old+homeless people + let them care for each other and their pets? Has rescue become retail? Is
@DogsTrust
more interested in its own welfare than dogs? Why don't they back
#LucysLaw
?
We need to fight this, otherwise on New Year's Eve every dog that fits the Gov's incredibly vague description that's in rescue will have to be killed. That's every stocky smooth coated dog higher than 19 inches at the shoulder. £64,000 raised so far.
I heard today of someone
Want to make stolen dogs and cats too hot to handle? Please help us prepare for the parliamentary debate - do this quick survey and write to your MP
#PetTheftReform
Please share!
Want to know more about Lucy's Law? part three of three explains who how you can stop puppy farming and trafficking, too
#LucysLaw
Let 2018 be the Year of the Dog in every way. We can do it, you can do it!
Watch today's full.
#lucysLaw
debate. Well done everyone who signed and shared the petition, doesn't this restore your faith in politics! A great day for dogs.
A message to
@michaelgove
from the
@Nowzad
Shelter 🇦🇫
The UK have always led by example for places like Afghanistan when it comes to animal welfare.
Don’t let puppy dealers be our downfall as a nation of animal lovers.
Support
#LucysLaw
&
#wheresmum
Ban third party puppy sales
Can you help make pet theft history?
@dotslondon
Please sign and share this new petition - 850 have signed in less than a day. This issue on TV tomorrow - show the MPs we care
Delighted and proud to be involved in such a inspirational, passionate and effective bunch of people who just refused to give up on our best friends. What a team we all make when we stand together! xxxx
#LucysLaw
Good to see
@RSPCA_official
calling for the independent enquiry into the shooting to include a vet and a clinical behaviourist. Can I nominate Kendal Shepherd who is both these things - plus she's an experienced expert witness on dangerous dog cases?
If you don't know why we're making such a fuss about
#LucysLaw
read this:
Democracy should mean that if we all say we want something and it makes the world better, it happens... What's your reason for not rolling your sleeves up and making
#LucysLaw
Law!
Almost 90% signed now. Let's make stolen dogs too hot to handle. Make this a heinous crime - dogs are so much more than property. Petition: Reclassify the theft of a pet to a specific crime in its own right.
Would you like to have a sneaky peep at our interview with
@ZacGoldsmith
in the March issue of
@Dogs_Today
. Zac was one of the first MPs to back
#LucysLaw
, 56 have signed up now, cross party. Has yours?
Well done, dogs are so much more than property. The law needs to reflect they are part of our families. If you’ve not signed the pet theft petition, please do it now,
We’ve made it to 50,000 signatures Officially half way there! Our pets are depending on us! Can everyone ask a friend to sign? You’ve all been brilliant THANK YOU
#PetTheftPetition
Link to sign:-
@AlanCarr
Could you please, please just give one last RT to
#LucysLaw
to get rid of puppy farms.... - it's almost on 100k and you'd definitely push it over! Make 2018 a historic Crufts and let's make it eclipse the crazy vegan protestors.
Did you know UK's wealthiest dog charity
@DogsTrust
and
@BlueCrossPA
still aren't backing
#LucysLaw
and - worse - are against the ban on 3rd party sales! Did you donate any of their £98million - are you happy about their stance? Use your power, read here
Looking forward to
@bbcwatchdog
covering puppy farming again. Really amazing your support over the years. Hope you'll give the
#LucysLaw
petition a mention, the nearest we've come to taking the profit out of this cruel trade.
Marshall latest: still very seriously ill 😞On IV fluids, antibiotics, painkillers and potassium.He isn’t eating and he has been vomiting and had diarrhoea.
• there is a PayPal donate button on the home page of their website: .
#LucysLaw
Stolen, used, abused, discarded. Make Pet Theft a specific offence. Let's have some deterrents. Sign the petition, write to your MP. Save dogs like Indy. Pets are family not property.
This is Indy. She was stolen, bred from for years, then given away. Folk don’t steal dogs to love them - they use them, abuse them, and treat them like disposable objects.
#PetTheft
is an
#AnimalWelfare
issue! SIGN & RT if you agree x
Some good news at last! Human rights lawyer John Cooper KC is challenging the Government's knee jerk reaction ban fuelled by inaccurate data.
You can donate here...
Now John is good, he lecturers others in how to cross examine.
Let's give him a decent