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Stricter licensing could be on the way for puppy farms in Wales - we meet the children who have been campaigning for better rights Residents from one of the biggest housing estates in Wales take to the good life and we go on the trail of bloodhounds now thriving in Wales

Last updated: 15 November 2009

Country Focus - Sunday 15th November at 07.30am presented by Melanie Doel

This week we hear how tougher regulations on dog breeding could be introduced in Wales in an attempt to improve conditions at puppy farms. The Assembly's rural affairs minister Elin Jones has announced a review of the legislation licensing dog breeding in Wales. New research suggests there are nearly 250 unlicensed dog-breeding premises across Wales - and it's an issue which captivated the interest of students at Birchgrove Comprehensive School in Swansea.

We visit a family run farm business in Monmouthshire (Trealy Farm) which makes salamis and chorizos and has been shortlisted for The Best Food Producer award in this year's BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards 2009.

One of the biggest housing estates in Wales is the Mount Estate in Milford Haven. And just a short distance away from the estate in the Pembrokeshire countryside its occupants are trying their hand at a spot of farming. The Residents Association has established a community farm offering not only practical training but also the process of growing and eating naturally-grown food.

Rural campaigners are calling for the eventual removal of what they call one of the largest and most unsightly lines of pylons in Wales stretching out across parts of the Snowdonia National Park from Trawsfynydd and along the North Wales coast . The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales and other organisations are worried that even more networks are planned.

and since hunting foxes with hounds was banned by law in 2005 country people have tried all sorts of ways to keep the social aspects of hunting alive. The usual answer has been to "re-deploy" the foxhounds to follow a scent trail. But historically it's been a quite different breed - the bloodhound - which has specialised in following a scent. Now a bloodhound pack is bringing the countryside back to life around Newcastle Emlyn in Carmarthenshire.