We are currently receiving inquiries and sad stories about dog orders from the internet on a daily basis.
The current Corona situation seems to make many people want to adopt a dog. Those who find it too exhausting to visit animal shelters or look around for a four-legged family member at breeders often order a dog like any other product on the Internet - and thus support a horrible animal trade behind which there is unspeakable suffering!
The Kassensturz (Swiss Consumer Reports on Swiss television) article from this spring explains why ordering living creatures on the Internet makes little sense (in Swiss German/German):
www.srf.ch/play/tv/kassensturz/video/hundemieses-geschaeft-mit-welpen?urn=urn:srf:video:a5b9be47-16c2-4c77-9b7e-418f0a8cfd99