Charity reveals the dark truth behind puppy yoga
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Cute, wriggling puppies snuggle up to yoga students performing downward dogs and sun salutations on yoga mats in increasingly common social media posts advertising puppy yoga.
Puppy yoga will encourage unethical breeding at puppy farms, the proliferation of which is already fueling an animal welfare crisis in Ireland, My Lovely Horse Rescue charity has claimed.
MartinaKenny,ofMyLovelyHorseRescuecharitySowhenthepracticecametoIreland,MartinaKenny,co-founderofMyLovelyHorseRescue,decidedtoinvestigate.
“ItwasalloverInstagram.ThispuppyyogacompanyhadcometoIreland,”MsKennysaid.
“Evenmyowncousintaggedmeinapost,suggestingthiswassomethingMLHRcouldgetinvolvedwith—shethoughtthepuppieswerebredethically.”
Undercoverinvestigation
AnundercoverinvestigationbyMLHRvolunteerspretendingtobepuppybreedersrevealedamoney-focusedenterprisewithnoconsiderationfortheanimals,MsKennysaid.
Undercovervolunteerscontactedapuppyyogacompanyandofferedthempuppiesthatwereonlyfiveweeksold.
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