I was delighted to hear that one of my favorite companies Lush Cosmetics will be campaigning in favor of this bill at their Irish stores tomorrow. If you are not familiar with Lush, they are a vegetarian company who are famous for their scrumptious, earth and animal friendly, handmade cosmetics and beauty products – be warned though once you try them out you will become addicted!

I blogged previously about this important new legislation that will hopefully be passed as Irish law soon. There is currently no legislation in place regarding the breeding of dogs in Ireland, no wonder we are known as the puppy farm capital of Europe! If properly enforced this new bill should help clean up the practices on Ireland’s puppy farms, which are currently horrific for the most part.

The purpose of the bill is to regulate all dog breeding establishments, but curiously, there is a strong lobby group from the greyhound racing industry and hunting fraternity campaigning to be excluded from having to register and have their breeding facilities inspected under the new legislation.

Lush Cosmetics are calling for the bill to pass without any exemptions for these facilities which I agree with 100% – If these facilities have nothing to hide there is no reason for them not to welcome regulation and inspection, don’t you think?

The staff at Lush will be calling on anybody who cares about animal welfare to come to their stores in Dublin and Cork tomorrow to sign their petition in support of the Dog Breeding Establishments Bill “with no exemptions for any establishment or special interest group”.

“We are proud to support this legislation, which will go some way to addressing the problems caused by puppy farming in Ireland”, said Lush Cork’s manager Karen Garvey “We feel that anyone who is breeding dogs should be subject to the same laws and inspections which safeguard the welfare of animals”.

Well done to all at Lush for caring about Irish animals!