National news story- Dog kills woman- My personal account
Jun 7, 2017 11:37:41 GMT -5
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Post by rockjunquie on Jun 7, 2017 11:37:41 GMT -5
This may be long- its a long story.
Some of you may have seen the story in the news about a rescue dog that killed a 90 year old woman. If not just google. It's a huge story. Here's a couple links of many.
blog.dogsbite.org/2017/06/dog-bite-fatality-adopted-out-pit-bull-kills-virginia-beach.html
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4567856/Dog-mauls-90-year-old-woman-death-adopted.html
wtkr.com/2017/06/01/woman-in-her-90s-dies-after-being-attacked-by-pit-bull-in-virginia-beach/
wtkr.com/2017/06/04/woman-claims-she-warned-fhrc-of-dogs-aggression-before-attack-of-elderly-woman/
Some of you may also remember that I spoke about my daughter being a dog handler and working at the same dog rehab center.
First- this is not about pit bulls although the dog in question is.
My daughter is an animal lover, but she knows when a dog is beyond rehabilitation. She's not an idiot. She has worked with dogs for 10 years. It is her chosen occupation. She had high hopes for her new job when she started. She really believed in their cause. She has a dog of her own from this group. Not every one of them is vicious, but too many.
As time went by, she realized that the owners of the facility were immoral crooks and frauds. She saw so many abuses of not only the dogs but of the people that they adopted dogs out to, too. A dog from Connecticut, as example, may come in as being trainable with a bite history. After forking over 4000.00 to the owners, the facility claims to rehabilitate the dog with intensive training. In actuality, what happened was the dog would be crated for most of the day, sometimes beaten, sometimes treadmilled (sometimes until they actually died!), sometimes not fed. My daughter witnesses all manor of illegal things. I can't even list all the bull shit that went on there. The 2 women who run the place are shysters and horrible mean vindictive people.
My daughter left in Dec. The last straw for my daughter was when she found out that they had stolen a purebred dog from a neighbor. The person ran a missing ad in craigs list and my daughter saw it. She tried to convince them to return the dog to the broken hearted senior, but they refused. Also disturbing was that they falsified records of dogs. But the worst was that they very, very frequently adopted out dogs that were vicious claiming that they were rehabilitated. The dog would, more often than not, bite someone and end up back at the shop. It was then adopted out again without any warning to the perspective family.
My daughter is best friends with another guy who worked at the second facility. He was badly mauled twice by dogs before he quit. But before he quit, he was the handler for Blue, the dog in the story. I know this guy very well. He's a family friend. He told us that the dog was well known at the facility for being a snappy mean dog. Most people refused to handle him, so he spent most of his time in a crate. He never once got ANY training. In fact, he wasn't even kept at their "training" facility. He had been homed before the deadly attack where he bit child. The dog had a long history of biting, but they advertised him as being a good "goofy" dog.
The place is taking a lot of heat, of course. People- ex employees and ex dog owners- are coming out of the woodwork to tell their stories. One is another friend of my daughter who is also a cousin to the owners. They have been saying that if he comes forward they will turn him in for pot and for having 2 dogs at his pet free apt. He came forward anyway. He spent 3 hours talking to the victim's daughter and will go to to court. He intimately knows the goings on of the non profit "business". My daughter has also come forward. She was crying when she heard the story because she knew it was only a matter of time before someone was killed. She always thought it would be a kid. She feels very guilty. She has spoken with PETA who has an open case with them along with one of the news stations that is working on an expose. Ultimately, they are trying to shut the place down. But they exist in a series of loopholes in the laws, so it will be hard.
My step niece is a police officer. She says that the police that showed up at the scene were horrified. I don't think it was in the news, but the woman was disemboweled. There was blood everywhere. The woman was viciously shredded.
I suppose my point in telling this is beware of dogs for cheap sale on Craig's List and of "rehabilitation homes". There is a TON of money to be made in taking these dogs in. Getting them homed quickly means they can get another in. That's a minimum of 4000.00 a piece plus the other fees involved. These crooks can't be the only ones out there to realize this get rich quick scheme.
Some of you may have seen the story in the news about a rescue dog that killed a 90 year old woman. If not just google. It's a huge story. Here's a couple links of many.
blog.dogsbite.org/2017/06/dog-bite-fatality-adopted-out-pit-bull-kills-virginia-beach.html
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4567856/Dog-mauls-90-year-old-woman-death-adopted.html
wtkr.com/2017/06/01/woman-in-her-90s-dies-after-being-attacked-by-pit-bull-in-virginia-beach/
wtkr.com/2017/06/04/woman-claims-she-warned-fhrc-of-dogs-aggression-before-attack-of-elderly-woman/
Some of you may also remember that I spoke about my daughter being a dog handler and working at the same dog rehab center.
First- this is not about pit bulls although the dog in question is.
My daughter is an animal lover, but she knows when a dog is beyond rehabilitation. She's not an idiot. She has worked with dogs for 10 years. It is her chosen occupation. She had high hopes for her new job when she started. She really believed in their cause. She has a dog of her own from this group. Not every one of them is vicious, but too many.
As time went by, she realized that the owners of the facility were immoral crooks and frauds. She saw so many abuses of not only the dogs but of the people that they adopted dogs out to, too. A dog from Connecticut, as example, may come in as being trainable with a bite history. After forking over 4000.00 to the owners, the facility claims to rehabilitate the dog with intensive training. In actuality, what happened was the dog would be crated for most of the day, sometimes beaten, sometimes treadmilled (sometimes until they actually died!), sometimes not fed. My daughter witnesses all manor of illegal things. I can't even list all the bull shit that went on there. The 2 women who run the place are shysters and horrible mean vindictive people.
My daughter left in Dec. The last straw for my daughter was when she found out that they had stolen a purebred dog from a neighbor. The person ran a missing ad in craigs list and my daughter saw it. She tried to convince them to return the dog to the broken hearted senior, but they refused. Also disturbing was that they falsified records of dogs. But the worst was that they very, very frequently adopted out dogs that were vicious claiming that they were rehabilitated. The dog would, more often than not, bite someone and end up back at the shop. It was then adopted out again without any warning to the perspective family.
My daughter is best friends with another guy who worked at the second facility. He was badly mauled twice by dogs before he quit. But before he quit, he was the handler for Blue, the dog in the story. I know this guy very well. He's a family friend. He told us that the dog was well known at the facility for being a snappy mean dog. Most people refused to handle him, so he spent most of his time in a crate. He never once got ANY training. In fact, he wasn't even kept at their "training" facility. He had been homed before the deadly attack where he bit child. The dog had a long history of biting, but they advertised him as being a good "goofy" dog.
The place is taking a lot of heat, of course. People- ex employees and ex dog owners- are coming out of the woodwork to tell their stories. One is another friend of my daughter who is also a cousin to the owners. They have been saying that if he comes forward they will turn him in for pot and for having 2 dogs at his pet free apt. He came forward anyway. He spent 3 hours talking to the victim's daughter and will go to to court. He intimately knows the goings on of the non profit "business". My daughter has also come forward. She was crying when she heard the story because she knew it was only a matter of time before someone was killed. She always thought it would be a kid. She feels very guilty. She has spoken with PETA who has an open case with them along with one of the news stations that is working on an expose. Ultimately, they are trying to shut the place down. But they exist in a series of loopholes in the laws, so it will be hard.
My step niece is a police officer. She says that the police that showed up at the scene were horrified. I don't think it was in the news, but the woman was disemboweled. There was blood everywhere. The woman was viciously shredded.
I suppose my point in telling this is beware of dogs for cheap sale on Craig's List and of "rehabilitation homes". There is a TON of money to be made in taking these dogs in. Getting them homed quickly means they can get another in. That's a minimum of 4000.00 a piece plus the other fees involved. These crooks can't be the only ones out there to realize this get rich quick scheme.