{"id":168636,"date":"2025-06-08T21:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168636\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T21:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:58:12","slug":"overhaul-of-dog-breeding-laws-could-halt-puppy-farm-sales-says-ni-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168636\/","title":{"rendered":"Overhaul of dog breeding laws could halt puppy farm sales, says NI charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Petition to put a stop to huge operation in Fermanagh hits 10,000 signatures\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Number of dog breeding licenses handed out for 2025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/59a1a1c5-813f-4853-910f-4ad9c9eece73.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Number of dog breeding licenses handed out for 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A complete overhaul of dog breeding laws in Northern Ireland could help end puppy farm sales across the region, an animal welfare charity has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Anyone who operates as a dog breeding establishment must have a licence from their local council and is subject to annual inspections by council officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Petition to put a stop to huge operation in Fermanagh hits 10,000 signatures Number of dog breeding licenses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[23670,5818,5824,1499,5822,5813,5817,5815,5819,5823,5816,5821,5820,1144,1610,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-168636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-andrew-muir","9":"tag-antrim-and-newtownabbey-borough-council","10":"tag-ards-and-north-down-borough-council","11":"tag-armagh-city","12":"tag-banbridge-and-craigavon-borough-council","13":"tag-belfast-city-council","14":"tag-causeway-coast-and-glens-borough-council","15":"tag-derry-city-and-strabane-district-council","16":"tag-fermanagh-and-omagh-district-council","17":"tag-lisburn-and-castlereagh-city-council","18":"tag-mid-and-east-antrim-borough-council","19":"tag-mourne-and-down-district-council","20":"tag-newry","21":"tag-northern-ireland","22":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}