noida the love for having mans best friend in ones house has grown by leaps and bounds in all metropolitan cities but even though it is hard to resist the cute pups for sale from either individual breeders or pet stores a closer look at how the dogs are obtained has revealed some startling facts while customers pay a huge price for getting the originally bred puppies recent arrests and firs have pointed out towards how the dogs are forced to produce litter after litter in order to meet the supplyon june 28 a daily wagers son sonu from the bhel colony in sector 17 of noida was hauled to the sector 20 police station for illtreating and repeatedly breeding a female german shepherd to such an extent that it led to the canines death the cops recorded an fir under sections 11a of the prevention of cruelty to animals act 1960 as well as under sections 428 and 429 of the ipc on the complaint filed by the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals spca the nonprofit animal welfare organizationdogbreeding is a thriving business with a puppy of a soughtafter breed going for thousands and even lakhs of rupees due to the lack of laws in place for breeding dogs and absence of licensing and registration authorities they are being bred by sweepers drivers guards labourers and even villagers and residents of jj clusters in small spaces across not only noida but many areas of delhi and the ncr some of the areas where rampant breeding is taking place include lodhi road madangir mehrauli lado sarai geeta colony mukherjee nagar rk puram besides many colonies of noida and ghaziabadthe unhealthy living and breeding conditions in addition to the breeding process being repeated every six months is cruelty to the animals also the breeders indulge in crossbreeding which leads to a diseased progeny and the common man being taken for a ridethese people breed dogs in very small areas in residential colonies with no ventilation and unhygienic conditions besides having no knowledge of going about the task moreover in their greed for more puppies they mate the dogs every six months leading to many puppies being born with physical as well as mental defects thereafter the litter is disposed off at very high prices to unsuspecting people said abhinav srihan managing trustee of an ngo working for the welfare of animals and birdsa dog of a good breed will fetch the breeder anything between rs 5000 and rs1 lakh the most expensive is a pug that costs between rs 35000 and rs 40000 followed by an alsatian for which pet buyers have to shell out between rs 25000 and rs 50000 depending on its bloodline added srihanthis business of dog breeding should be under stricter check the backyard breeding being undertaken by the economically weaker sections of society for high gains with no regulation in place leads to the resultant diseased pets being abandoned by their owners said