Petition · past parliament · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Stop vets euthanising healthy dogs when options are available to save them.
Closed
6,420 signatures
What the petition asks
Legislate scanning of all healthy or treatable animals prior to euthanasia.
Check for rescue back up, match keeper with presenter and exhaust all options available to save them by contacting rescues or breeders who should take accountability for pups they breed.
Gov funding is needed for rescues.
Check for rescue back up, match keeper with presenter and exhaust all options available to save them by contacting rescues or breeders who should take accountability for pups they breed.
Gov funding is needed for rescues.
Despite RCVS updating their code of conduct to include scanning for RBU prior to euthanasia, healthy dogs are still being killed unnecessarily, including lockdown pups.
It is unacceptable for any animal with an option available to save it to lose its life purely because of a failure in a duty of care by vets.
In lockdown, too many dogs were bred recklessly and now rescues are full and struggling financially with abandoned young dogs and many are being killed under the age of 3 years.
#TuksLaw
It is unacceptable for any animal with an option available to save it to lose its life purely because of a failure in a duty of care by vets.
In lockdown, too many dogs were bred recklessly and now rescues are full and struggling financially with abandoned young dogs and many are being killed under the age of 3 years.
#TuksLaw
Timeline
| 16 Aug 2022 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 2 Mar 2023 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
6,420
Status
Closed
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Opened
16 Aug 2022
Closed
2 Mar 2023
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.