Retail Rescue Sells Rabid Dog

At the exact same time as the CDC announced they were putting a temporary halt to dog shipments from certain countries because of Retail Rescue fraud, a story of a Retail Rescue selling a rabid dog exploded.  The timing couldn't have been better to showcase just how desperately this action is needed.

The specific variant the dog was infected with took decades to eradicate in the United States, according to experts.

Note:  Canine rabies was eradicated in the U.S. by 2007 but Retail Rescue brought it back in 2008. 

Nationwide, mainstream news outlets ran with the story that 12 people and numerous dogs were exposed to rabies when an imported rabid dog was found in Chester County, Pennsylvania.  They refused to name who did it, once again giving a free pass to Retail Rescue's that endanger American lives.  The highly contagious variant had previously been completely eradicated in the United States.  Now its back thanks to Retail Rescue. 

The dog was one of 34 animals — 33 dogs and one cat — imported by an animal rescue organization from Azerbaijan to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on June 10.

These rabid dogs arrive in America because the majority of their 'paperwork' is fraudulent.  The United States government has regulations on the importation of animals but most Retail Rescues violate the regulations or submit faked paperwork.  Not only is the paperwork fake, but so are the dog's ages and 'sob stories' attached to them.  Under-aged puppies are frequently declared to be older to make them seem like they were legally imported. 

The 'rescue' the mainstream media refuses to name shipped a plane load of dogs (and a cat!) from Azerbaijan to America. Why is America bailing out the Middle East now? 

The rescue that the mainstream media is giving a free pass to is "Good World Animal Rescue and Protection (GWARP)."  A 1 year old group that exists to ship foreign imported street dogs all over America for resale. 

Unfortunately it will be hard to hold GWARP accountable since its a foreign organization.

The dog shipment landed in Chicago and GWARP quickly resold them. Some sold to families in at least 5 counties in Illinois but at least ten were transported all the way to Pennsylvania and one resold to a family. It was rabid. Another one under rabies quarantine has escaped its home and is RUNNING AT LARGE in Pennsylvania as authorities scramble to try and find it.

Though, is it?  It's funny how many dogs 'escape' and can't be found when rescues are held accountable. 

Now authorities are struggling to figure out where all the dogs went because federal and local governments gives a free pass to these cons and no one is tracking the interstate shipments.  Authorities in New York, Indiana, Illinois, New Jersey, California, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania are now investigating dogs that either ended up in their state or were transported through, exposing Americans to RABIES.  

Meanwhile GWARP is doing damage control.  Check out their jerk assed response to what they did.  

Yeah, GWARP isn't responsible for the temporary CDC ban but they ARE responsible for importing a rabid dog!  Notice how they just sidestep that little inconvenient fact.  That 'inconvenience' can still kill someone since one of their rabies exposed dogs is currently running loose in Pennsylvania.  If you go to their Facebook page, its filled with emotional hysteria about how they are disadvantaged saviors trying to do good.  

Devastated at the loss of profits more like it. GWARP has no U.S. shelters. It is one man, Farid Mansurov, operating a charity that was founded in 2020 that exists solely to import dogs from Azerbaijan to the United States for tax-free profit.

His personal Facebook page contains so much GRAPHIC animal porn that even Facebook won't show you most of it. All posted to get you to open your wallet and given money to a foreigner.  

America, why do you continue to fall for this???  Is it really that important to have THE most exotic 'rescue' backstory on your dog in the neighborhood?  What the hell is wrong with American born and bred?

While everyone likes to talk about the CDC study showing that 1.06 million dogs per year are imported by Retail Rescue, no one is tracking the millions of dogs trucked over the borders (north and south) or flown in on private planes. It's estimated that the true Retail Rescue import figure is more in the range of 5 million dogs and cats per year. The Border Puppy Task Force, operating in San Diego, California estimated back in 2008 that 10,000 puppies are being smuggled per year just through that one border area. All completely untracked. Who knows what disease is in your neighbor's yard.

“We have found puppies stuffed in speaker boxes, screwed into the car door panels and wrapped in blankets with their little legs taped to their bodies and stuffed under seats,” says Captain Aaron Reyes of the Southeast Animal Control Authority. “On one occasion, we found, I believe, a dozen puppies in a plastic container in the back of car. Two of the puppies had already died because of the heat, and all of the others were panting and doing severe mouth breathing. They were cooking in there, and they were about 5 weeks old.” Article on puppy smuggling from 2010.

Meanwhile, GWARP is deflecting and fundraising off Rescue Porn. Check out this dog named Oliver that they are keeping alive for $$$.

Hey, he can stand up now!  Oh, and he has eye sight in one eye.  Now that he can stand....they are going to subject him to chemotherapy.  What exactly is that like in Azerbaijan?  Do they even offer chemo for dogs in that country?  More importantly, why are American's donating money for a feral street dog in Azerbaijan to get chemo?  (and can you prove that's where it went and not into Farid's pocket?) 

Meanwhile after pressure from true animal welfare advocates, the CDC has announced a one year temporary ban on importing dogs from rabies prone countries.  The Retail Rescue market has hit the roof at the potential loss of profits and is floating petitions and other actions against the CDC to give them 'exemptions' from the ban.  

These groups, such as Southeastern Virginia Golden Retriever Education and Training of Virginia, specialize in this crap. They are scrambling to import as many "Golden Retrievers" as they can from Turkey before the ban takes affect and are lobbying legislators to overturn the CDC ban. I've written extensively in the past about the Turkish Golden Retriever scam. It's ALL a scam. They have a GoFundMe raising over $21,000 to help "SEVA GRREAT" ship more Turkish dogs to America.

GWARP isn't alone importing sick dogs.  Numerous Retail Rescues have been caught in the past importing rabid dogs for resale.  One of the biggest screamers about the new CDC regulation are groups like "Puppy Rescue Mission" who got the military focused newspaper Stars and Stripes to run a sob story about how returning service members will be forced to part with their illegal pets. They are counting on you to not know that these types of groups HAVE ALSO imported rabid dogs 'for service members.'  

On June 18, 2008, a mixed-breed dog, recently shipped from Iraq into the United States, was confirmed to have rabies by the Public Health and Environmental Laboratories of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. A total of 24 additional animals in the shipment, all potentially exposed to the rabid dog, were distributed to 16 states.

Unleashed Pet Rescue of Mission, Kansas imported a shipment of Egyptian dogs in 2019. At least one was rabid. At least one was documented as 'missing' after escaping from the home it was sent to potentially exposing strangers and other animals. As usual, all the dogs had 'records' of having been vaccinated for rabies.   It wasn't the first time.  Several plane loads of dogs from Egypt have contained rabid dogs over the years.   2017 bought three separate cases of rabid dogs imported (2 from Egypt, 1 from Thailand).  In 2015, a Retail Rescue imported a shipment of 8 dogs and 27 cats.  As if America has a shortage of cats!   One of the feral street dogs was rabid and was resold to a family in Virginia. It had a faked rabies certificate.  The 'rescue' sent animals on to New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland as well.  

Also put at potential risk were the eight other dogs at the rabid dog's new home, along with nine other animals and an additional dog the owner was pet-sitting, according to the CDC.

Another dog imported in 2019 and supposed to go to a family in Connecticut was found to be rabid.  Another way that Retail Rescue's get around import laws is to solicit soft-hearted people to bring in dogs for them.  This is how the rabid Connecticut dog made its way to the United States with faked paperwork.  

An Egyptian-based animal rescue organization delivered four dogs from Cairo, Egypt, to a flight parent (a person solicited through social media, often not affiliated with the rescue organization, and usually compensated with an airline ticket), who transported the dogs to the United States. The flight parent arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York City and, via transporters (persons who shuttle dogs from one state to another), transferred the dogs to foster families; the dogs ultimately were adopted in three states.

This case is particularly noteworthy because the rabid dog BIT the transporter.  Brought to a veterinarian in Connecticut due to its behavior (exhibiting signs of rabies) it bit the veterinary technician who tried to take a blood sample.  Ultimately this case caused a multi-state investigation as authorities had to trace down everyone (and any other animals) who were exposed to any of the 4 dogs.  From the baggage handlers at the airport to the staff at the veterinary clinic where the dog died.  All of them put at risk so a Retail Rescue could profit.  

I urge you to contact the USDA, CDC and your legislators and tell them that you SUPPORT the CDC ban.  Retail Rescue is going to be lobbying hard over this next year to get exemptions from this regulation.  Only you can stop them.  

#Retailrescue #AdoptingIsShopping

#DitchTheGuilt

#TakeBackTheConversation

#PuppyFairies #NoPetoverpopulation

#NeverGiveUp

Kentucky House of Horrors - Fuels Long Island Retail Rescue

  There is a huge divide in society today between experienced animal owners and breeders and s/urbanites. They don't understand farming, zoos,   aquariums or pet breeding. They willingly believe any sob story or activist video sent their way.

Some understand the divide when it comes to getting food on their plates.  As a result, farmers are now taking to social media to show the public the truth about farming. 

The big elephant in the living room that no one sees are the massive cult of personalities that develop around hideously abusive retail rescues run by con artists. I've written extensively recently about the huge cult of personality developed around This Is Houston that uses rescue porn to rake in massive amounts of money.  These groups want you to believe that only if YOU give them money, can they save the mangled deathbed roadkill dogs they collect from the Texas/Mexico border.  

Texas is a massive importer of sick and diseased foreign bred dogs, largely from Mexico that are then shipped all over America for resale. There are smugglers that make a living off illegal trafficking, not humans but dogs, because dogs are more lucrative and easier to traffic. Besides parasites and contagious diseases, many of these dogs are temperamentally unsuited for pet homes. 

Some Retail Rescues across America have purchased their own properties in Texas to stage the product they are shipping to their home base for resale.  One of these is Diane Rose Indelicato who runs Ruff House Rescue in New York.  Indelicato has rescue mill warehouses in Texas, Kentucky (and allegedly South Carolina) that all funnel dogs to her retail sales outlets in Long Island, New York. 

Concerned citizens after seeing the hellhole that is her Texas property and seeing Parvo and Distemper affected puppies shipped from Texas to New York for resale (illegal!), complained to local authorities in 2020. Authorities investigated and her Texas 'kennel' failed the inspection.  

Authorities found 270 dogs stuffed into 120 filthy kennels without proper shade or clean food in the blazing Texas heat.  Let's not forget the ground itself is contaminated with Parvo and Distemper from her outbreaks.  She was put on a 3 month probation and ordered to not bring any new dogs onto the property until she cleaned it up and passed inspection. 

Meanwhile.....   

Her Kentucky partner, David Howery, has recently been busted for the second time, after being charged with 25 counts of animal cruelty for keeping animals in horrific conditions without food, water or electricity.  That's right!  NO electricity!  

Authorities ended up seizing 100 animals.  

Detectives later learned Howery had an outstanding bench warrant from a previous cruelty to animals conviction in Adair County, Kentucky. Detectives and animal control went to speak to Howery and arrest him on his outstanding warrant.

He was previously charged with 295 counts of animal cruelty in 2009 after local authorities found 350 animals being kept in filthy conditions.  

The facility was filthy, with feces everywhere; there were about 25 dead dogs in cages or piled behind the building, and six dead goats in the same room with 10 live ones, McCloud said in a complaint.

He has now finally been sentenced to one year in jail.  

As for Diane Indelicato herself, she's wanted on a warrant out of Texas and numerous people have spoken out about the conditions she keeps dogs in at her Texas and New York properties.

As you can expect Indelicato has some impressive Google Trophies.

Why should she care about some piddling Texas warrant when she was charged with criminal possession of stolen property way back in 2010?

Or when she was sued in 2011 when one of her vicious 'rescue' dogs mauled a 3-year-old?  She was sued again when another one of her vicious 'rescue' dogs mauled an 80-year-old woman in 2012.

When anyone speaks up and tries to expose these con artists, they get attacked by deluded gullible people who are part of these cults of personality.  Facts don't matter.  They wail and moan all over social media that dogs will DIE if cons like Indelicato are stopped.  They cry that no matter how inhumane the conditions may be, "it's better than where the dogs came from."  Really?  What proof do you have of that?

Who exactly is this person that makes endless excuses for con artists?  Meet Debbie Brostoff-Laykind, a long time employee of the Plainview-Old Bethpage School District.  She claims to be a Ruff House volunteer for over 5 years.  In Debbie's mind Indelicato can do no wrong and all of us who object to animal cruelty, well WE are the ones that are wrong.  Do you want a woman like this involved in your child's education?  It's no surprise that her environmentalist NYC lawyer "I wanna be a Judge" husband is the Water District Commissioner while they live in a 2,549 sq. ft. million dollar Long Island home.   

It's people like this in positions of influence that are the reason America is in the straights it is today.  

I hate to break this to you Debbie, but adopting IS shopping.  You are nothing more than a retailer of 2nd hand dogs.  That's all you are.  This does not make you more special than anyone else.  This does not make you a 'good person.'  

"If ‘adopting’ a shelter dog makes you feel ‘better about yourself’, you don’t need a dog. You need a therapist." Jay Kitchener

Debbie Laykind thinks she's so much better than you that she attacks people who speak out about Ruff House.

Poor Debbie, she just can't handle the fact that she's been had.  She's not the only one.  

Meanwhile you may ask yourself why do Retail Rescue's like Ruff House do it?   

They do it for the CASH.  Retail Rescue is highly lucrative.  HIGHLY.  Here's what some had to say about Ruff House. 

 

You can act to stop these situations.  First, do not give them money!   It's common for Retail Rescue to purchase houses, businesses and properties for all cash sales with your 'donations.'  Trace their cash flow BEFORE you donate.  

Second, report them to the USDA for not only their conditions but the illegal shipment of sick dogs over state lines.  Report Ruff House using the USDA's online complaint form.  

Report them to state and local authorities.  Many people have reported Ruff House to New York authorities but they are covering for her.  Don't let them get away with it!  Continue filing complaints!  Ruff House's transporter Luisa Montalvo has also recently been charged for leaving a paralyzed dog in freezing temperatures overnight in her transport van.  

It does not matter where you are, you can still contact local authorities and complain about what they are allowing to continue in their community.  

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran 516-571-3131
NcExecutive@nassaucountyny.gov

Town of Hempstead Supervisor
Don Clavin 516-489-6000
donclavin@tohmail.org

4th District Council Member Anthony P. D’Esposito
516-812-3242
adesposito@tohmail.org

You can also file complaints with all state authorities in New York and Texas that oversee animal rescues.  The New York Department of Agriculture and Markets requires that all dogs imported into New York have a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (CVI) proving they are free and clear of any infectious or communicable diseases or parasites.  Not a single dog should be resold by Ruff House that has ANY parasites or diseases.  It is illegal.  If you bought a dog that was sick, REPORT them.  Stop excusing them and giving them a free pass.  

Situations like this will never end until people speak up and hold officials accountable for giving 'rescue' a free pass. 

#RetailRescue #AdoptingISShopping

#DitchTheGuilt #TakeBackTheConversation

#PuppyFairies #NoPetoverpopulation

The No-Kill Movement - Warehousing Dogs to Death

In writing about a recent case of several retail rescues selling off brucellosis infected dogs to members of the public in Texas and Virginia, one of them reminded me how I became what I am now, an American dog breeder and a published author.

Both careers can be traced back to a single dog named Snoopy. Let me tell you about him.  I saw Snoopy, a purebred Akita, for sale through a local animal rescue site over 20 years ago now.  As an experienced Akita owner and AKITA RESCUER, I felt I could give him a good home and applied to adopt him.  I thought it would be simple.  I never thought it would radically change my life.  

My application entered me into hell in which I was interrogated by vegans, had my home thoroughly searched and my background plumbed before I could see him in person.  When I was finally cleared to visit a hidden property in Aldie, Virginia, I saw him warehoused in a small cage among over a hundred others and was covered from head to foot in urine.  He was sopping wet.  All of the white parts of his body were stained dark yellow from the urine. He was housed in such a small filthy kennel, he couldn't get away from his own waste.  I was crushed to see the living conditions he was being held in.  I apparently didn't have a good enough poker face at that point in my life because unknown to me after that visit, Snoopy was immediately moved to another hidden location.  I never saw him again.  

"I got so big my owners didn't want me anymore."  

Real truth?

  

Snoopy had a history of attacking other dogs and killed a cat. 

25 years ago I worked in the animal rescue field. From the inside out, all I saw was fraud, waste and abuse. I saw streams of untraceable cash going straight into 'rescuers' pockets instead of to the animals. I saw more animal abuse on the part of rescuers than I saw animal owners committing. I saw people putting a halo on themselves and sitting on a pedestal. Completely untouchable as long as they claimed to be 'rescuers'.

I learned from what I saw with my own eyes that America does not have a 'overpopulation' problem, it has a retail rescue market problem. Let me introduce you to the straw that broke this camel's back and turned me against retail rescue forever.

It started with a dog named Snoopy as I said above.  Snoopy was living in a no-kill shelter, run by animal rights extremists (a mixture of vegetarians and vegans) warehoused in a cage for years.  The "rescue" had no clue how to handle him and his breed, they refused to LEARN about his breed, or how to correctly place him, but they “thought” they knew it all.  I could tell from my prior experience owning a hypothyroid affected Akita that Snoopy was also probably severely affected and needed medication. I told these clueless veg-idiots absolutely everything I knew about hypothyroidism in Akitas and referred them to Dr. Jean Dodd's of Hemopet who was studying hypothyroidism in the Akita breed.  FOHA didn't want to hear it.  Snoopy had also degenerated so much in the 3 years warehoused at FOHA that he had seizures and a liver infection.  

Because of their attitude, he had already spent the majority of his life caged among hundreds of other dogs. This is the dark side of 'no kill' that the warm and fuzzies don't tell you.  Dogs are warehoused until they die.  It's not unicorns, love and kisses.  It is a terrible life sentence to these dogs.  

At the time I didn’t know that the place that was housing Snoopy had a long history of criminal charges.  Snoopy taught me a hard lesson in life. 

About this time I made friends through one of my writers organizations with a man who was the husband of a long time Standard Poodle breeder, Absolute Standard Poodles, and though him I met all their Standard Poodles and it was love at first sight!! Until this time in my life.... believe it or not, but I had NEVER met a Standard Poodle before! 

I saw a cross roads in my life, with two radically different paths in front of me.  A path filled with abusive criminals calling themselves 'good' and a path filled with dog breeders called 'bad' but in reality INCREDIBLY GOOD. 

I choose reality over myth. 
I chose facts over heart warming fuzzies.  

The bad guys in this story are Friends of Homeless Animals (FOHA) of Aldie, Virginia.  (True legal name:  Friends of the Animal Shelter and Guardians of the Homeless Animals) What you will read here is NOT what you will see on their warm and fuzzy website. The true ugliness of the 'no-kill' movement and my first time going up against wacked out vegans.  

Let me introduce you to some of the circle jerk that made up FOHA. 

• Anne P. Lewis - Founder and President - Convicted Criminal.
• Sue Gilbert - Called herself "Acting" President and also behind "Companion Animal Rescue & Education (CARE) of Reston, Virginia  an outlet of FOHA - Convicted Criminal. 
• Riccado Wright - Owner of the FOHA property - Criminally Charged.
• Judy Kraft - aka "Judy the Vegan Vegetarian," best buddies of Sue Gilbert, also behind "Companion Animal Rescue & Education (CARE) of Reston, Virginia an outlet of FOHA.
• Katie Barr - Owner of one of FOHA's warehouses - Convicted Criminal. 

Through the 1990's and until at least 2002, many of the major players of FOHA were criminally charged over and over again.  The Wrights and the conditions at the Aldie facility came to public light when they (and Anne Lewis of FOHA) were sued in 1991 over a vicious dog mauling.  The victim, a kennel employee, who was mauled by a dog named "Calgary" alleged in the lawsuit that he had a known vicious history with bites on record and she was not informed that he was dangerous. 

They were raided and criminally charged in 1995 after investigation into another dog mauling in December 1994 led to the discovery of a number of emaciated dogs. 

"Lewis, Wright, the Stonehead corporation, and Friends of Homeless Animals initially were charged with at least 75 counts of failing to provide adequate food, shelter, and medical care to 14 dogs at the ranch.   Prosecutors called the facility squalid and said it often housed two dogs in kennels designed for one." 
The Washington Post, February 1995. 

Their defense was a standard ploy, they just took in those 30 animals and 'someone else did it.'  Oh and of course their secondary backup excuse, they are operating on a 'shoe string' and have good intentions. 

What I found to be the truth was that FOHA was secretly very wealthy with a large stock portfolio that had been donated to them.  They fought back with a vengeance and ultimately only Lewis was found guilty of two charges. 

FOHA spun the situation as they were innocent rescuers trying to 'save' animals being framed by overzealous authorities.  The same defense their long time Fairfax County, Virginia outlet run by Katie Barr ran with. 

In 1997, Riccardo Wright once again faced 21 charges of failing to provide water and clean kennels when the conditions continued.  Days before his trial, he committed suicide and FOHA purchased the Aldie property from his estate where it resides today with the same 1972 constructed buildings. 

Besides 1995, Anne Lewis also fought charges in 1997 and 2000.  One of the 1997 charges was over FOHA selling a vicious dog to a woman in Fairfax and the dog bit her 3 times.  Loudoun Court Judge said, "Not Guilty." The dog bit the woman 3 times in a single week and Lewis got a free pass from lenient judges once again.  

In April 2001, FOHA got into trouble for possessing stolen property when FOHA magically got custody of 2 'lost' Labrador retrievers and refused to return them to their legal owner.  The owner went the authorities and they forced FOHA to give up custody of the 2 dogs to their legal owner. 

In 2001 and 2002, "Acting" President Sue Gilbert was found guilty of possessing vicious dogs after two additional dog maulings by FOHA dogs.  One of the dogs bit the victim in the face. 

Unlike Wright and Lewis who mostly kept getting a free pass from local judges, authorities in neighboring Fairfax County spent almost two decades trying to shut down Katie Barr's house of horrors. 

Barr was criminally charged several times over the years as locals tried to figure out how to stop her from abusing and warehousing animals.  This was back in the day in which extensive animal protection laws didn't exist but they do now thanks to Barr.  In 1980 her house of horrors burned down and 33 dogs died in the fire.  She immediately started back up again collecting dogs like Tupperware and being paid to house dogs by FOHA. 

"Man, I wish you would clean up your kennel so that we wouldn't have to go through this." 
Judge Robert M. Hurst, April 9, 1991.

 

There were a number of animal seizures on Barr's property starting in 1991 and several criminal trials after law enforcement seized 82 animals in 1993. Supplemental testimony includes numerous interesting statements such as the one dated June 4, 1986 that noted active rat burrows were in almost every dog enclosure and dog feces in some areas was as much as 5" deep. A memorandum from the Fairfax County Health Department dated July 1, 1987 noted that Barr had failed to clean up any of the debris from the kennel burning down 7 years earlier and simply built new make-shift enclosures (some made out of barbed wire) next to the burned remains and the entire property was in severe disrepair. Barr sued the zoning department in 1987 demanding the right to keep even more dogs than she was permitted to have, one of several suits over the years. 

After years of letters back and forth between Barr, Zoning, the Health Department etc., all documenting the filth, the rats, the suffering dogs, the unsafe conditions that Barr refused to clean up, in 1991, county officials attempt to criminally charge Barr.  

She managed to successfully get the warrant thrown out and the case dismissed twice.  She then tried to sue a number of the witnesses and failed.  She of course never cleaned up her kennel so in 1993 she was raided and charged again.  

Court records reveal stories like the dog, "Brownie," whose coat was so matted to the skin and nails had not been trimmed in so long that when animal control saw him, his LEG WAS EMBEDDED IN HIS COAT and he could no longer stand.  He had taught himself how to walk on 3 legs in order to move around. Law enforcement stated that it looked like he had tried to scratch himself but his leg became entangled in his own matted fur and he could not free himself.  Barr never noticed. After his leg was cut free, he had to be retaught how to walk normally on 4 legs.  

Another dog seized, a Labrador retriever named Rob, had such a massive untreated gum infection that his teeth were falling out into people's hands.  He had already lost his upper teeth before being seized.  

An Australian Shepherd seized had to be humanely put down after he was found covered in his own urine and feces and was unable to move.  Additionally, he was suffering from an untreated severe skin disease SO BAD that he had maggots all around his genitals and in open wounds on his body.  

Yet FOHA insisted everything was just fine and sued to try and get some of the dogs back.  

Lawsuits flew over the years.  If local newspapers dared to print even the smallest bit of negative news about Barr, she'd sue them.  Barr loved suing people.  She even sued her investment broker when the value of her stock portfolio went down.  As a interesting side note, FOHA was sued for racial discrimination in 1988 for refusing to adopt a dog to a Nigerian couple solely because of their race. 

Yet Barr never stopped warehousing and reselling 'rescued' dogs in horrific conditions with FOHA supporting and supplying her with dogs.  

"Kate's always given our animals extra good care," said Anne Lewis, founder of Friends of Homeless Animals. "Maybe {Barr could have} better structures . . . . Hers doesn't look pretty."

Maggots are extra good care?  Dogs that can't even walk are extra good care?   IF that's 'extra good' what's bad?  

Time and time again Barr got nothing but a slap on the wrist when her house of horrors was investigated.  Even when Barr continuously threatened to shoot county officials she was not held accountable.  Here's the ruling in her 1993 trial after investigation was conducted into a vicious dog named "Dexter" that FOHA was warehousing on her land. Dexter was such a vicious dog with numerous bites on record that all of his teeth were ground down so far that the pulp and nerves was exposed.  It took two people and 'control sticks' to even enter his pen. Yet because these extremists believe so strongly in 'no kill' that Dexter was just warehoused until he could die 'naturally.'  

Kenny's ruling in her appeal ended a four-day trial that featured more than 20 witnesses, the detailed life stories of many of Barr's animals, a video tour of her kennels and a bag of 50 deer ticks that Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Stephen Best said came from one dog.

In his closing statement yesterday, Best described what he said were "deplorable" conditions at Barr's kennels. "These dogs," he said, "can't be here and speak . . . but I'm sure they would tell you that they would rather be removed from Ms. Barr's premises or humanely destroyed.

She was finally found guilty and sentenced to 75 days in jail.  She just continued on as if nothing had happened. 

After decades of running hell on earth, and non-stop battles with Zoning, the Health Department and Animal Control, Fairfax County finally got a judge to order Barr's kennel closed in 1998. Of course they had to go back to court repeatedly charging her with contempt of court because she still refused to shut down.  They also continued to seize dogs from her as they found them on the property.  Katie Barr finally sold her Centreville, Virginia property in 2002 for $625,000 and retired to Florida. 

Back to Snoopy.  After being turned down to adopt him, I called Loudoun County Animal Control and filed a complaint.  They asked for full particulars of Snoopy, where he was caged, etc., and conducted an unannounced inspection.  Snoopy was NOT housed at the Aldie property. Shortly after I had seen the conditions there, FOHA moved him.  The story was worse than that.  An Akita-mix named Cody was listed by FOHA as being in their care but was also missing.  FOHA told animal control that they had two Akitas but both were in the hospital and had been for over a month suffering from seizures.  Neither of them matched the dog I had seen with my own eyes and why do all of the Akitas in FOHA's custody seem to suffer from seizures?  FOHA of course figured it out that I was the one that reported them to animal control and their supporters came after me HARD. 

The more they threatened me, the more I investigated and reported them.  Even "Amy the Wiccan" (Sue Gilbert's daughter) threatened that I had better stop my investigation.  Fat Chance.  The threats from FOHA supporters continued for months until I filed a police report with the Fauquier County Sheriff's Department. A week later I got a letter in the mail from FOHA threatening to sue me for libel and defamation unless I shut up. 

I consider it a Badge of Honor when crooks threaten to sue me. 
Bring it on I say! 'Discovery' gonna be a real good time.

I have one last thing to say about Snoopy.  If you look at his two Petfinder Ads previously shown in this article, Snoopy CAME FROM TEXAS.  Even 20+ years ago, the Retail Rescue pipeline from Mexico to Texas and then shipment to the Northeast for resale was already active.  I have emails from that period showing that I questioned them as to whether Snoopy came from Texas and they never answered. 

Another interesting side note to this story was my interview of animal rights extremist Hilleary Bogley in 2001.  I tried to interview as many people that would agree to talk to me that had interactions with FOHA over the years.  Bogley claimed to have done undercover investigations into FOHA several times.  She referred me to her buddies the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) for help.  They just sent me a propaganda package filled with PETA fact sheets and others.  Nine years later Bogley would attempt to destroy me. 

Ultimately I did not save Snoopy.  He disappeared and his fate is unknown, but I started writing about retail rescue and the horrors within it and 21 years later I'm still writing about it.  You can thank FOHA for all of that. 

As for FOHA, they are still in business, still raking in the cash (over $2 million in assets while sitting on 20 tax exempt acres valued at $700,000+) and still getting in trouble for housing and reselling vicious dogs.  They currently have at least 1 dog registered with Virginia's Dangerous Dog Registry.  

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#TakeBackTheConversation

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#NeverGiveUp

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

 

Living off Animal Suffering - Retail Rescue Exposed

Retail Rescue is really just about the money, not 'saving' dogs.   This is an issue I've been writing about for over 20 years.  That rescue in your community with the heart rendering sob stories that open your wallet?  Is probably run by a secret millionaire.  Most of them are.  Rescue is a dirty rich business in all tax-free untraceable cash.  

Let me introduce you to "Elliott," a desperately suffering and dying dog deliberately kept alive so that a Retail Rescue could profit. 

This is Part 3 of a series on "This Is Houston" rescue in Texas.  A rescue formed in 2019.  They originally caught my eye when I saw them posting that they were looking to resell a brucellosis positive dog.   

You can read Part 1: Could Your Neighbor's Dog Kill Your Child?  Or Part 2: Another Brucellosis Positive Dog Sold In Virginia of this series here. 

According to their social media posts they are pulling in money hand over fist and saving an astronomical number of dogs all miraculously hit by cars. Every dog they have for sale has some outrageous story attached to it.  Shot, used as target practice, hit by cars, hit by a train, blah, blah, blah.   Every dog has literally beaten death if not had their hearts stop outright while valiant rescuers stood by and cried.  If you listen to Laura Forma, all of Cleveland and Houston, Texas is one wide open sewer filled with stray dogs humping each other senseless and having puppies in the gutters.  Those that live are all used as sport while everyone in Houston seems to get their jollies off of hitting them with their cars.  

Yeah, right Laura.  

In fact, here's a fiction of the century story from Laura and Tom from May 2020 to explain how they got their hands on 15 highly resellable puppies: 

Did ya catch that?  They want you to believe that some unnamed SPCA left a bunch of intact dogs running free on some property in Cleveland, Texas.  They want you to believe that these dogs were intact and just humping each other senseless and whelping their puppies in farm fields while daddy was eating birds to survive.  Yet none of the parents starved to death and mom had enough milk to raise puppies?  Meanwhile, they only managed to 'catch' the dogs when the puppies were grown up, CUTE and miraculously ready FOR SALE.  Oh, and notice they caught the puppies but no mention is made of the parent dogs.....  IF you believe this story, I have a bridge to sell you. 

These people are really some of the best masters of rescue porn I've ever seen.  Dozens of individual pictures of sad and suffering dogs, every post has a plea for money.  HELP US.  Give us your money!!  By attaching fundraisers to individual pictures they obscure how much money is pouring in. 

Remember Ozzy, the dog withbrucellosis that they were attempting to sell to the public?  They claim they have spent over $25,000 on his care already and that he is in a $40 a day boarding kennel.  Yet the most recent IRS filings available for them claim that they received just $51,298 in donations in 2019. This Is Houston is a circle jerk of just three people:  Amanda Hulebak, Tom Heller, and Laura Forma (calling herself Laura Jean on social media).  They call claim to not make a dime off their efforts.  Not a single dime. (though they are revising their website AS I'm posting these articles to make themselves look much bigger.) 

Tattooed Tom the "security expert" bad ass (I'm laughing in my cornflakes on that one) lives here:

Here's where it get's really interesting... their IRS 990's claims Amanda Hulebak is one of their Board of Directors but she is not listed on their website.  In fact, she claims to be both the founder and president of this rescue but also 'quit' less than a year after founding it.   

In this post, she's responding to an allegation that she was misusing donations for her own personal benefit.

Remember that figure.  $51K.   Cuz Laura and Tattooed Tom are masters of the Retail Rescue Heartstrings Pulling Blackmail Stories. 

I literally cannot keep up with screen capturing the 'donations' heart string posts begging for cash constantly.  Every dog has a outrageous sob story.  The majority of them all hit by cars.  (what's the odds?).  To jerk your heart strings even more, some of these sad eyed dogs were HIT HEAD ON BY A CAR.  Really?  

There is no way this couple is only pulling in $51 grand a year.  It wouldn't shock me if they were pulling in $51 grand A DAY.

The "Save them All" savior complex hurts dogs more than it saves.  Let's meet Elliott.  

"This Is Houston" ran multiple separate fundraisers for a dog named Elliott. They claim his vet bill is over $10,000 to 'save' his life. 

Before you see the hysteria, here are the facts.
1.) Elliott ate a sock.
2.) When Elliott became sick and started losing weight, his owners took him to the ER.
3.) After discovering the sock, the ER said it would cost $$ to 'try' and save his life, or another option was to put him down because the damage was too extensive.
4.) Elliott's owners signed him over for euthanasia.  
5.) A 'vet tech' at the ER funneled Elliott over to This Is Houston to 'save.'

Now you have the players.  This Is Houston are the saviors.  Elliott's owners, evil monsters so lacking in care for their dog that they can't even keep their house clean.  

This is because Laura and Tatooed Tom think they are better than you.  

Elliott sadly ate  sock that bound up and obstructed his insides.  In the Social Justice Warrior Halo Polishing world that makes his owners cruel and abusive people who don't deserve their dog.  Yes, you heard that right.  His owners signed him over to be put down and depending upon whether or not they paid for euthanasia services, that veterinarian could have broken the law by not doing it.  Now Tom and Laura are fundraising like mad off the situation while posting picture after picture of suffering Elliott to get people to open their wallets. 

The real animal abusers in this situation are not the family that didn't pick up a sock that Elliott got a hold of.  Yes, people have attacked Elliott's family as being 'too lazy' to pick up their home when they have no idea how Elliott got ahold of the sock.  They just believe the constant rescue porn posted by Tattooed Tom and Laura.  The real abusers are the people keeping Elliot alive day after day as he suffers from a blood pressure drop to 50, raging infections, more surgeries, etc.  It is cruel and inhumane to put Elliott through this just so Tom and Laura can brag on how great they are.  After making him suffer from procedure after procedure, barely alive for days, Elliott took matters in his own hands and passed away.  

Years ago a very similar situation happened to a poodle that I bred.  He never spent a moment of his short life alone.  He was loved and pampered by a large family who took him everywhere and trained him for obedience and agility events.  One December day he ate a Christmas ornament while they weren't looking.   The glass shards punctured his intestines.  They took him to the vet 3 times before the vet finally figured out why he was sick and what might be going on.  Just 4 days later they had to make the same decision that Elliott's owners faced.  The veterinarian at the emergency room told them that even after thousands of dollars in surgery, he could not guarantee that their dog would live.  They made the sad humane decision to put him down and end his suffering instead of rolling the dice on a 'chance' he might make it.  Just as Elliott's family did.  They made the right choice. 

"This Is Houston" did not.  They kept a dog alive that should not have been so that they could have another rescue porn story to fund-raise endlessly off of.  Then there's Koda. The dog that Laura and Tattooed Tom Tom shipped from Texas to sell off in Vermont at the same time as the Elliott saga was playing out.  Unfortunately for them, "Koda" dropped dead in Virginia on the transport run.  

"This Is Houston" wants you to believe that every pet owner is irresponsible and only they are ethical and only they are saving animals.  I've never seen such a massive ego ride from a 2 year old rescue group.  They even have the nerve to ask for 'prayers' for the sick and injured dogs they are promoting.  Anyone who posts on their page to say that the same situation as Elliott happened to them and how much it cost them or anyone who dares to speak up for Elliott's owners is immediately shot down by their deluded followers as cruel and abusive.  Yet after days of intensive procedures and surgeries to remove huge parts of his intestines, Elliott DIED.  He died after spending days in agony while the majority if his intestinal tract was DEAD.  He suffered so people like Laura and Tattooed Tom could polish their halos. 

They are so good at pushing their narrative that all animal owners are cruel and abusive and only people Laura and Tattooed Tom as 'saviors.'  It's mental sickness like this that has America in the state it is today.   All of these mentally ill posters are completely clueless that in the "rescue" world, they are considered to be just as abusive as Elliott's owners.  

Do you see the mindset of these people?  Only "rescuers" love animals.  Animal owners do not.   This is YOU.   You can support rescue all you want but you are one swallowed toy, towel or sock away from the cyber lynch mob coming after YOU.  

Keeping dogs like this alive is no different than a recent story in Slate magazine about putting a vicious dog down.  The columnist relates how she purchased drove to New Jersey to buy a dog from a shelter and it started biting everyone in sight.  After investigating the dog's background she found out it had bitten 7 times before she bought it, yet in the article, she grieves for the loss of this dog and put off putting it down as long as she could.  Blackmailed into believing that love and training can 'cure' any dog.  The dog should never have been sold to her in the first place.  The shelter should be sued and shut down for negligence.  What is even worse is the author mentioning a Facebook support group exists with over 11,000 members for people who have had to put dogs down for the same reason.  It is absolutely outrageous how many rescues and shelters are selling off vicious dogs on an unsuspecting public.  

Here's where it gets really fun.  In this fluffy feel good media story about their origins, "This Is Houston" (really Laura and Tom) bragged that they transferred a dog named Thomas (allegedly their first intake) to Wags to Wishes Animal Rescue in Illinois. It's like a circle jerk in the animal retail rescue field.  

I've previously written a 3 part series about the dirty retail rescue named Wags to Wishes in 2014.  The first called When Christmas Puppies Bring Jail Time was quickly followed by Part 2:  What Makes A Good Animal Rescue which led to Part 3:  Running For Cover In Waukegan.  

Birds of a feather flock together.

YOU can act to stop this.  Do not ever donate a dime to any 'rescue' that is keeping a horrifically injured or sick animal alive.  Do not support this 'save them all' or 'leave no animal behind' savior complex.  You are doing a massive disservice to the animals you claim to love.  It IS more humane and more kind to the animal to end its suffering than to prolong it 'just in case' it might recover.   Stop satisfying your ego and put the animal first. 

You can also report these retail rescues and their practices to your local and federal authorities.  Any dog shipped over state lines is required to be 100% healthy and have an issued veterinary certificate to prove it.  File a complaint with the USDA using their online AWA Complaint form.

File a complaint with the Virginia Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Any rescue that ships dogs through Virginia OR fund-raises in the Commonwealth of Virginia is required to be state licensed. This Is Houston is shipping dogs through Virginia for resale in the Northeast.

There are many ways you can stop dogs like Elliott from suffering for greed but only if YOU act.  

#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