Bone Look Back in Anger: Dog-loving Liam Gallagher helps UK’s Dogs

Posted on August 5, 2010 by andrewseel

Oasis lead-singer Liam Gallagher signed a classic Epiphone Casino guitar with All Saints wife Nicole Appleton, their Dachshund ‘Ruby Tuesday’ and TV vet Marc Abraham in the Gibson Guitar Showroom in Central London to launch PUP AID 2010 – the UK’s first charity boutique music festival and fun celebrity-judged dog show.

(Left to right) TV Vet Marc Abraham, Liam Gallagher with the signed Epiphone Casino guitar, Nicole Appleton and ‘Ruby Tuesday’ (Please credit Gareth Gatrell)

PUP AID 2010 – taking place in Brighton on Sept 19th – aims to raise awareness about the cruel industry of puppy farming – basically the battery farming of dogs in the UK purely for profit.

ThePet.net co-founder Marc, who’s also the resident vet on ITV’s This Morning and Sky1′s My Pet Shame, commented: “As a massive Oasis fan I’m honoured Liam and Nicole are involved and helping me to promote dog welfare as well as raising much-needed funds for both rescue and the research into the health and happiness of all dogs.”

Marc advises that: “People looking for a dog should always approach the Kennel Club for their list of Accredited Breeders or consider adopting from a rescue shelter instead.

“Never buy pups online, from pet shops or free newspaper ads, as these are usually farmed pups which – if they survive the first few days – will often develop severe behavioural and/or medical problems that can often be both impossible and expensive to fix – leading to pain and suffering as well as family heartbreak.

“Always insist on seeing the pup interacting with it’s mother and beware of scams. Please remember that you may think you’re ‘rescuing’ the pup – but its mother’s still suffering and now must produce another pup you’ve just made room for.”

This uniquely signed Epiphone Casino guitar will now do a tour of the festivals to gain even more legendary dog-loving signatures and will finally be auctioned at the PUP AID 2010 event with monies raised going to Dogs Trust, Kennel Club Charitable Trust, and Oldies Club – a small charity dedicated to the re-homing of older unwanted dogs.

To book your tickets click here.

For further press information, images or interview requests for PUP AID 2010 please contact hello@thepet.net

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PUP AID Update: Just a few Exhibitors/Performers spaces left!!

Posted on June 21, 2010 by marcthevet

We can’t believe the interest we’ve already received from exhibitors and performers for this year’s Puppy Farm Awareness Day in Brighton on Sept 19th!!

So many of you are keen to get involved and make a noise about this horrific industry that just seems to keep on growing – which means of course that more dogs are suffering.

By attending, performing, or exhibiting your dog-friendly business or band can be an active part in the UK’s first-ever boutique music festival & celebrity-judged dog show – and all to raise much-needed awareness of such a serious problem.

The full line-up for PUP AID 2010 will be announced on August 1st as well as ticket sales but we’ve already got some cracking acts confirmed, plus some awesome dog-loving celebrity judges too.

For more information click here or on the flyer below:

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Please welcome to the stage… PUP AID!!

Posted on March 8, 2010 by marcthevet

PUP AID is ThePet.net‘s Puppy Farm Awareness Day event for 2010.

PUP AID is a mini-boutique music festival to be held at Stanmer House near Brighton on Sunday 19th September with another celeb-judged dog show, Rex Factor, and loads of fun for all the family – and your dogs.

Puppy Farming – as I’m sure you know – is an incredibly cruel industry that basically battery-farms dogs.

Hundreds of thousands of poor bitches are kept in the dark, endlessly mated to mass-produce pups that are sick, diseased and unsocialized.

These puppies are then sold online, in pet shops and from free newspaper adverts, while their mothers continue to suffer both mentally and physically.

Unfortunately so many dog owners are still not aware goes on – and even fewer know how to spot the tell-tale signs of when someone is trying to sell them a puppy produced in this way.

So following on from the success of our first-ever Puppy Farm Awareness Day in Sept 2009 we’re continuing to fight against puppy farming in this country.

A bigger event means more publicity and as a result the more aware the dog buying population will be of what’s going on, and what they need to look out for when searching for a new dog, i.e. always see with mother, responsibly bred, or to consider adopting a rescue dog instead.

There will be a small admission charge to PUP AID with a proportion donated to Dog’s Trust (Shoreham Centre).

PUP AID will try and help dog buyers everywhere be aware of how nasty this side of dog breeding is, and hopefully reduce the demand for pups bred in this way and help put a stop to puppy farming in the UK.

We will be gaining heaps of publicity as celebs attending will include soap stars, actors, comedians, politicians and sports personalities. Some of the celebs have already confirmed and we can’t believe how lucky we are to have their support!!

Pre-launch, PUP AID has already gained massive support from:

Tickets will be on sale from 1st August 2010 and to register interest in coming along, performing or exhibiting, then email us at hello@thepet.net and join the Facebook PUP AID event here.

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