https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/f/nonclinical-discussions/30218/breeder-query who do you register a concern with when you are worried about the number of litters a bitch is having in one year? and how many bitches and litters and breeds is a &#39;hobby breeder&#39; permitted to have at any time without a breeding licence? Grateful foren-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/167829?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 10 Feb 2017 04:48:43 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:2a48ebd6-76db-47da-afed-9d8c14dc7959Mason8<p>The license is granted by the local authority so may need to be reported there and with the rspca.&nbsp;</p> <p>A decision as to whether a breeder with bitches producing fewer than five litters a year needs to be licensed will depend on whether the breeder concerned is carrying on a business; that can only be determined by the local authority on the facts of the case.&nbsp; It may well be that a breeder producing fewer than five litters a year will still have to be licensed.</p> <p>Bitches count towards the qualifying total if they are kept at any time during the 12 month period by the applicant/licence holder at the premises at which he/she is carrying on the business or breeding dogs for sale; or if they are kept at those premises by any of his/her relatives (i.e. parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, niece or nephew or someone with whom he/she lives as a couple), or if they are kept by him/her elsewhere; or if they are kept by any other person by a contract or other arrangement with him/her. &ldquo;</p> <p>Be careful if you obtained the information while working in practice you could violate confidentiality and open the practice up for legal action by the owner. The Rcvs and legal reps need to be contacted first for advice before reporting to anyone.&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>