I AGREE with J Davies that puppy farms are inhumane and this case is absolutely disgusting. I cannot help but be dismayed that Carmarthenshire Council recently granted planning position to carry out this disgusting trade.

Anyone with any sense of compassion would never breed animals in the conditions that puppy farms do. It is the equivalent of concentration camps for dogs.

Anyone who wishes to buy a dog please insist on visiting the breeder's home, inspect where the dogs are kept and note the conditions, see the pups with their mothers and, if necessary, do a surprise visit.

Only when people stop buying from puppy farms will this practice stop because there will then be no profit for this type of breeder.

By the way, when visiting our eldest son in the South East a parent at our grandchildren's school made the following remark "West Wales, isn't that where puppy farms are notorious?"

Perhaps the council needs to realise that notoriety travels far.

In fact, when our son and his wife decided to buy a red setter, the breeder visited their home to inspect where the puppy would be living and talked to their children and if she had not been happy with them she would not have sold them the puppy.

She had actually turned down one family because the children were too young and excitable.

They were given advice on raising this breed and she was available to them if any problems arose.

At the end of the first year they were invited back to the breeder's home with their dog to meet all the puppies from that litter.

Rather different to Carmarthenshire puppy farms.

Perhaps this type of standard is too high for West Wales.

Carole Lloyd

St Clears