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The breeding and pet shop business is controlled primarily by gangsters which is why, needless to say, the authorities and police are reluctant to intervene, let alone take any positive action to control the trade. Britain is one country with pure-bred dogs Japanese want. Although both the Kennel Clubs of Britain and Ireland have warned breeders not to export to Japan, there are always back routes through third countries and there are always greedy breeders willing to sell to anyone who has money, which Japanese do. Many puppy farms in the depths of the UK countryside sell to Japan and since there is no quarantine for UK-originating animals, they can be flown straight in.
Once in Japan these animals are used as breeding machines and since they are bred as young and as often as possible, they have a short life, often burnt out at a young age with rotten teeth and decrepit bodies from being kept in cramped cages away from sunlight their entire life. Once they fail to breed they are 'disposed of' in indescribably horrid ways. Indeed the pet shop business operates on a 10-20 % turnover, that is to say, they make a profit from selling about 10-20% while the remaining 80-90% that are unsaleable are 'disposed of' . Kittens and puppies are taken from the mothers at the age of one month, sold at auctions, often in faraway cities, brought by pets shops and sold to gullible customers. Of course they are stressed by this treatment and having no immunity often fall sick in the first few days they are brought home. If they die the pet shops will never return the money but may offer another as a replacement. Most of these animals are sold with forged pedigrees and there is no indication on the pedigree where that animal was born. While most pet shops have a bright interior to entice customers, the breeding establishments operating out of sight, are filthy, over-crowded and squalid. Some pet shops have cages outside where people are encouraged to dump their 'old dog' and replace it with a new puppy from inside the shop. These 'old dogs' are 'disposed of ' by the shop as a service to its customers. If pet shop animals remain unsold, the price is dropped as their size increases, until finally they fill the cage and are disposed of.
The fate of 'disposed of' animals includes: killed on the premises, taken to the gas chambers of the hokensho, or sold to experiment labs.
(From a scientific point of view, it is doubtful whether dogs and cats taken 'off the street' can have real scientic value, since the genetic background is unknown and it is impossible to use these animals in a 'control setting.' Many experiments are repetitions of ones done again and again, mainly to boost the ego of scientists since the animals are cheap and disposable.
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