Importing puppies and mutilated dogs into the UK to cash in on ear cropping craze popularised by Kendall Jenner and other celebs set to be BANNED

Importing puppies into Britain volition beryllium banned nether caller plans to tackle a celebrity  craze for mutilated dogs.

Under proposals going done the Commons it volition go amerciable to bring dogs and cats nether six months aged into the UK, and older animals that already person their ears cropped oregon tails docked.

Cropping is amerciable successful UK but critics accidental unscrupulous traders are inactive carrying it retired present earlier claiming they imported the carnal from overseas successful that condition, evading the ban.

Others are bringing animals into the UK but claiming they are their ain pets alternatively than animals for sale, with the fig of non-commercial movements of pets rising from 100,000 successful 2011 to much than 320,000 successful 2023.

Docking the ears of dogs to marque them pointed alternatively of people floppy has been popularised by celebrities including Kendall Jenner.

The multi-hyphenate has posed pictures to her 287 cardinal Instagram followers showing doberman Pyro successful the US, wherever the process is legal, and adjacent utilized him successful promotional campaigns.

But the Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill, sponsored by Lib Dem MP and Vet Danny Chambers, seeks to adjacent the loophole and extremity the signifier successful the UK for good.

His backstage members bill, which is backmost successful the House of Commons tomorrow, has cross-party enactment and has been picked up by the Government, giving it a beardown accidental of becoming instrumentality aboriginal this year. 

Dr Chambers, who visited Battersea Dogs and Cats Home today, said: 'As a vet, I've seen the heartbreaking consequences of receptor cropping and process docking up close. 

'Dogs near successful pain, scarred for life, some physically and emotionally. 

'These brutal, unnecessary procedures are often carried retired by unscrupulous breeders chasing a peculiar ''look'' — 1 that makes dogs look tougher oregon much aggressive. 

'But down that representation is simply a sentient carnal who has suffered needlessly. 

'These aren't aesculapian treatments, they're mutilations, plain and simple. In a compassionate modern society, determination is perfectly nary justification for inflicting this benignant of cruelty.'

Ear cropping is simply a achy process wherever a dog's outer ears are removed altogether oregon are surgically altered, with the tips oregon immense sections of the outer receptor being chopped off. 

The signifier is amerciable successful England and Wales, nether Section 5 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006.

Other celebs who person posed with dock-eared dogs see The Only Way is Essex prima Joey Essex.

In 2022 helium was criticised aft helium took to societal media to present his fans to a favored Dobermann puppy, writing: 'newest member'. His reps declined to comment.

The erstwhile year Rita Ora was criticised by PETA for featuring a canine with cropped ears successful the video for her azygous Big, featuring David Guetta, Imanbek and Gunna.

In the mini-film, filmed successful Bulgaria, the vocalist walks on a thoroughfare earlier a masked other is seen holding the pitbull by a lead.

Little Mix prima Leigh-Anne Pinnock and erstwhile Newcastle footballer Andy Carroll and his wife, erstwhile TOWIE prima Billi Mucklow person been criticised for showing disconnected dogs with cropped ears. 

In March past year Disney, its animation subsidiary Pixar and chap movie elephantine Warner Brothers were accused of 'normalising' the mutilation of dogs by featuring disfigured animals successful films.

MP and vet Dr Neil Hudson took purpose astatine films specified arsenic Up and DC's League of Super Pets for featuring dogs with cropped ears.

Pixar's Up features a Doberman called Alpha with cropped - oregon docked - ears that instrumentality up gangly alternatively of flapping down naturally. 

Additionally, Super Pets features a canine called Ace, voiced by Kevin Hart, who is simply a crop-eared sidekick to Batman.

Before the predetermination Tory MP Selaine Saxby's projected authorities would prohibition cropped dogs from being brought into the UK, but it was nixed erstwhile Rishi Sunak called the ballot for July.