Boldavier

Article by Marc Abraham - KC vet

We were so pleased and stunned to received the below article. We try to provide the very best for our puppies and everything we do is for their welfare and to help our new puppy owners. It was wonderful to receive this and we will continue to provide the best we possibly can for our puppies and their new families. 

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 “I bought the people [breeder] before I bought the puppy” has got to be my favourite quote from last month.

I was back vetting on the South Coast at Beechwood Vets in Seaford when in walked a mother, her two kids – one of whom was carefully carrying the family’s brand-new 12 week-old black French bulldog called Nelson (below); nothing really weird about all that.

Nelson the French Bulldog

But over the last few months any client in any of the surgeries I’ve worked at, who’s seen to be clutching a puppy of any sort, healthy or poorly, is going to receive my (friendly) third degree as to where, how, why, etc., this new addition to the family came about.

Quite simply I’ve become obsessed with the whole psychology of puppy-buying. So after a mild grilling, I asked Nelson’s proud new owners if they wouldn’t mind returning with, when it was convenient to them, all the paperwork they were supplied with at the time of purchase; which they did.

The breeder’s name is Boldavier, they’re based in Essex, and quite frankly, reading through all their paperwork in this frantic time of puppy farming campaigning completely made my month in the best way!

I was (and still am) so impressed by their literature, their website, their obvious passionate responsible and health-conscious breeding attitude which of course led me to preaching at Nelson’s owners about how she’d totally gone through the correct channels; and all about the negative aspects of dog-breeding in the UK and how I wished that everyone who breeds dogs in the UK could follow a format like Boldavier’s.

Now I’m not having a go at the rest of the responsible breeders out there as I’m sure they can equal or possibly even surpass Boldavier’s extremely high standards, but when I’ve spent the last few months watching hidden footage taken inside puppy farms, examining abused ex-breed bitches, and seeing for myself sick pups cooped up at the back of a dirty London pet shop, a beautifully bred healthy puppy like Nelson really does get me excited

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