Exposing Cons Brings the Home Girls Out

     A couple of my recent stories about Retail Rescues making truly insane amounts of money selling off sick, contagious or vicious dogs hit a nerve recently.   Meet Scotti Fitzgerald.  This gutter muffin thinks she knows more than me about how to properly rescue and save animals.  I have underwear older than her.   But go ahead sugar, tell me how SPECIAL you are, as if I can't see from all the selfies. 

    Now Scotti here with her years of experience in breeding, raising, training and rescuing dogs, oh and let's not forget all of her years of veterinarian experience in contagious disease!  Yes, Scotti is just SO SURE that she knows more than me about the proper management of a contagious disease that can infect and kill your child, you or any member of your family.   

Yeah, Scotti is a real expert.  Let's see what she has to say about a Virginia Retail Rescue selling a known brucellosis infected 2nd hand dog they sourced out of Texas while making at least $5 million in less than 5 years. 

Oh yeah, tell me how special you are.  I also saw that while you dispute how much money your buddies are pulling in tax-free, you personally also paid some of the vet bills for them.  So sweetheart, did you ever get paid back?   Or, sob, sob, was it FOR THE ANIMALS?

Cry me a river.   Honey, you've been had.   And if you transported that horrifically wounded dog over state lines, you are a criminal.   It is illegal to transport a dog in that condition.  

But wait, there's more!  These Retail Rescue's didn't like the fact that I had pointed out that American dog breeders had almost completely eradicated brucellosis from American dogs before the "rescue" crowd brought it back in spades.  So the fact that THE RESCUE sold off a brucellosis positive dog, they decided to blame that one on breeders.  How dare I challenge their narrative!  Meet Jennifer, the main focus of one of my recent articles.   

So which breeder is that Jennifer and JoEllen?  The majority of these dogs collected up in Texas really come from Mexico.  I really love how Jennifer wants you to believe that breeders "kill their waste."  Really honey?  Just how is that?  But wait, more deluded supporters showed up to troll my page overnight and deflect blame off Jennifer.

Hey Amber, what happens in Mexico ain't my problem.  You want to 'solve' this at the source?   How about we get that border wall finished?   That will solve a huge part of this Retail Rescue pipeline and put your buddies out of business.  But go ahead, keep hating on American dog breeders who are not the problem.

Poor Jennifer, I feel sorry for her this morning.  Here she thought she'd have a nice calm day selling off 2nd hand dogs for $$$$ but now someone's looking at the dirt in her backyard.   

So Jennifer... tell me about that brewery. 

#Retailrescue #AdoptingIsShopping

#DitchTheGuilt

#TakeBackTheConversation

#PuppyFairies #NoPetoverpopulation

Update: This has turned into a multi-part series.

Part 1:  Could Your Neighbor's Dog Kill Your Child?

Part 2:  Another Brucellosis Positive Dog Sold In Virginia

Part 3:  Living Off Animal Suffering - Retail Rescue Exposed

Part 4:  Exposing Cons Brings The Home Girls Out

 

Another Brucellosis Positive Dog Sold in Virginia

In my previous article in this 3 part series, I introduced you to Ozzy.   A brucellosis positive dog in Texas that a Retail Rescue named "This Is Houston" was offering for sale to the public.  

In the resulting public backlash from their attempts to sell an infectious dog that is a hazard to humans, some interesting supporters came forward.  One of them is  Jennifer Quesenberry Aufdenberg, the co-founder of Shenandoah Shepherd Rescue in Stephens City, Virginia. 

For those of you following what Retail Rescue is doing these days, it should come as no surprise that her rescue had resold a brucellosis infected dog around 18 months ago to an 'adopter' who has an auto-immune condition. For people like her, its all about the tax-free cash and the social justice warrior halo polishing.  

I had to laugh as one of the first posts I saw on her page was a cross post about allegedly stray purebred German Shepherds outside the FOHA shelter in Aldie, Virginia and begging for help.  In a former lifetime I spent 10 years researching the truly ugly history of FOHA after seeing one of their properties in person.   The cruelty, the abuse, the hoarding, the warehousing.   It just doesn't get much uglier than FOHA's history.  I should know, I FOIA'd the court records of several of their criminal trials over 10 years ago.  I still have the records.  (someone reading this is squirming right now). 

If you are a reputable rescuer in Virginia for any serious length of time, you know FOHA's dirty history.  In fact, it was FOHA itself that put me on the path I am today.  All of my work to expose dirty rescues can be traced back to the horrors I discovered about FOHA.  Turning my back on Retail Rescue itself and becoming a proud American dog breeder for the past 20 years can also be traced back to FOHA.  Thanks rescuers!  You showed me the truth. 

Unfortunately Shendandoah has only been around for less than 5 years according to their records.   Even for such a newcomer though, they have the Retail Rescue blackmail language down pat.  Every dog is in severe need.  Every former owner is 'abusive.' 

If you look at Shenandoah's Facebook page its filled with fundraising statements like, "This dog has 1 hour to live unless you help."   Amazingly enough Shenandoah Shepherd is also sourcing dogs out of Texas.   Which as I pointed out in my previous article in this series, are mostly coming out of Mexico.  Just like "This is Houston" Jennifer seems to make a specialty out of dogs hit by cars.   As if every stray dog in Texas has been hit by a car.  

There's no one's word but Shenandoah's that this story is true.  Stop falling for everything you read.  

Like many Retail Rescues , they charge a $20 non-refundable fee to 'apply' for one of their special dogs.  They sell on average of around 12 dogs a week.   They are nothing more than a rescue mill.   

"They" claim to have resold 2,000 dogs since 2017.   Well really its just Jennifer Aufdenberg.   She's the only one behind the curtain. 

Her cheapest fee to purchase one of her dogs is $250.  That doesn't count her endless fundraising to pay the vet bills of all the dogs.  Just to purchase the dog is $250.   That means she has a base income of $5 million dollars in less than 5 years for reselling dogs that she more than likely gets for free.   Don't forget that each dog had a $20 non-refundable application fee.   That's an additional $40,000 in just application fees that we KNOW about.  How many applied for a dog and never got one? 

Of course her IRS 990's do not match her social media boasts.  To the IRS she claims to have only made $500,911 in 2019, with $88,299 in adoption fees alone.   Poor Jennifer, she only had $66,769 cash in her pocket after the year was over with.  She shares these sad financial facts with her 'president' who is listed as Kaitlin Vazquez.

Funny how these Retail Rescuer's make a living slandering American dog breeders to the public so they can live off of all tax free donations but these rescues sell off more dogs than any American dog breeder could ever be producing.  

What American dog breeder has made $5 million in undeclared income in 4.5 years?  None of us!

Besides all the money she's pulling in, where are the dogs? Shenandoah Shepherd Rescue has a mailing address and a 'process serving' address.  Neither property looks suitable for housing dozens of Mexican street dogs.  So where are they?

Where are all the dogs housed that she's selling for tax free profit?  Where is that brucellosis infected dog now?  

They may be housed at the mysterious "president"s place. The woman that isn't part of the group..... The group of ONE.

The mysteriously disappearing 'president.'

YOU can act in these situations.  Here's some steps to take.  "Shenandoah Shepherd Rescue" is run by Jennifer Aufdenberg, 122 Littlewing Way, Stephens City, VA 22655.   Report her to the USDA via their online complaint form.  Has the USDA inspected her and has every single dog imported over Virginia state lines arrived with a health certificate as required by law?

Report her to the Commonwealth of Virginia and to the CDC for reselling a brucellosis infected dog.  This case may have already been reported but chances are good it hasn't.  Make sure it is!  How do you know that dog isn't in your community exposing your children to an infectious disease?  

You can also contact the following entities and complain about them allowing Jennifer at their events:

Virginia has a notorious reputation as a HOT MARKET for Retail Rescue.  There are 'Jennifer's' on every corner reselling imported dogs to Virginia residents and making a fortune.  This will only stop when you take a stand and report them.

Stay tuned for Part 3 of this series, as I take a deeper look at This Is Houston.

#Retailrescue #AdoptingIsShopping

#DitchTheGuilt

#TakeBackTheConversation

#PuppyFairies #NoPetoverpopulation

Update: This has turned into a multi-part series.

Part 1:  Could Your Neighbor's Dog Kill Your Child?
Part 2:  Another Brucellosis Positive Dog Sold In Virginia
Part 3:  Living Off Animal Suffering - Retail Rescue Exposed
Part 4:  Exposing Cons Brings The Home Girls Out