Baillieu pledges to act on rogue puppy 'factories'

ANIMAL abuse and torture practised by rogue puppy farm operators will be stamped out under a state Coalition government, Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu has promised. ''We want to shut them down, that's the bottom line,'' he told The Sunday Age yesterday. Mr Baillieu today will announce a series of measures against badly run puppy factories or ''mills'' - where dogs are treated as breeding machines, kept in crowded and unsanitary conditions with insufficient food and water.