A Serious Warning - Puppy Imports offered for sale with a Passport
Puppies are being offered for sale on the Internet on free ad sites such as Gum Tree, Dogs and Puppies by rogue sellers acting alone or on behalf of others offering 8 week old puppy's micro chipped, with a Pet Passport, some ads say KC registered.  The puppies are from Eastern Europe (Hungary) and imported illegally.  
Be warned these puppies are being sold with false paperwork; they have been vaccinated against rabies too early.  Therefore it is possible they are not adequately protected against Rabies.
I know of at least two puppies that have been confiscated from their new owners by Defra and placed in quarantine kennels.  This has caused anguish for the new owners who were oblivious to the situation they have found themselves in when answering the advert and purchasing the puppies from a private address.
If you see these types of adverts please contact Defra, Consumer Advice/Trading Standards.
Please write to your MP requesting they question Defra Ministers on how these illegally imported puppies are able to arrive by road transport into the UK without being apprehended and stopped by border control before entering our soil and offered for sale.
We must stop these illegal imports which are placing our dog and human population at risk of rabies - it is not a case of IF but WHEN.  Please act now if you see or read anything suspicious.
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This unhappy situation has been discussed many times on this forum. What I cannot understand is how easy it appears to be to import these puppies. Whenever we travel with our dogs to Europe, we are subjected to intense scrutiny of dogs and paperwork on both sides of the channel.The threat of confiscation should we err in time or date causes a fair bit of anxiety. So here we have litters of puppies coming in without correct documentation and most importantly of all, unprotected against and possibly exposed to Rabies. As the OP quite rightly says,it is not if but when Rabies will be reported here. I've had my guys vaccinated and blood tested to check . I don't take chances.

Unortunately when I reported one illegally imported puppy (its paperwork said it was 22 weeks but it was clearly very much younger than that) to DEFRA they told me to ring AHVLA who told me to ring Trading Standards, who were disappointingly unbothered. I don't know if the information was followed up or not, and now the evidence is gone because the animals old enough for the dates to appear correct. To say I'm angry is an understatement.

Pat,
May I crosspost this please?

Yes please.

I would go back to Trading Standards and question them again as they must take this seriously.

JG,

I'd be tempted to go back to DEFRA with this. In the light of their (rather embarrassingly worded) 'Myth busted' statement they put up on their website regards the recent tabloid reporting of puppy smuggling and the risk of Rabies.
    I'd use the Chingford quarantine kennel incident (when the 2 kennel hands were bitten and 1 contracted Rabies from a Sri Lankan rescue dog) as my stated case for concern. ~ I could be wrong but I'm sure I remember there was some question over the link between dog's age and vaccination.

I wonder if DEFRA are using the WSPA's research from it's street dog vaccination programmes in Brazil, Asia etc where they stated that only 70% of the population need to be vaccinated to stop Rabies.

all round.

> Yes please.

Thank you - I'll put it on some of the Facebook Pets for Sale groups, as this will reach a lot of naive puppy buyers, and hopefully make people think :)

I do not understand why they keep allowing these puppy transporters through under the Pet Passport Travel scheme which allows a person to bring up to 5 dogs that they own. Why are border control using that legislation and not the ones for commercail trade which this is.
These transporters were heading for LLanelli in Wales to sell these puppies onto a person/dealer who would advertise them for sale on Freeads/Internet as these gangs are doing.  The border control could stop them and detain them as part of an 'economic activity' the puppies were going to be offered for sale that is trade. They should be transported under Balai TRACES and the Welfare of Animal Transport Order they were not compliant with this and border control let them go on with their journey.  This in indefensable it is a criminal offence for goodness sake. What are border control doing and Defra keeping stum and all a myth - what nonsense.  What are they doing waiting till we have rabies and like foot and mouth act when it is too late when thousands and thousands animals died!!   

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pups-trafficked-young-dogs-are-being-1391112