In Episode 4, Nina May, founder of Wunderdog magazine, exposes the maddening contradictions in dog welfare.
You can impulse-buy a puppy on Instagram and have it delivered like a takeaway. Yet rescue charities reject potential adopters for not having gardens in London.
The system makes it easier to buy a poorly bred puppy from a dodgy dealer than to save a dog's life from a rescue.
Nina herself - who runs a rescue dog magazine and knows more about dog welfare than most - was rejected by 12 different dog charities.
Despite her expertise and passion, she couldn't adopt from UK charities and had to get her dog from Romania instead.
This episode reveals the brutal reality behind the 72% of lockdown pets abandoned after the pandemic.
A crisis so predictable that charities kept their kennels ready, knowing the dogs would return.
Thousands of impulse purchases became unwanted problems when life returned to normal.
Through her personal journey from failed foster to dog advocate, Nina shares why we desperately need dog licences to stop impulse buying.
She argues that if you need a licence to drive a car, you should need one to own a living creature that depends on you for everything.
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The podcast also references various locations where rescue work happens including Romania, Greece, Thailand, and across the UK.