[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Today pit bulls, tomorrow.............?

From: lollark@xxxxxxx
To: ELG440@xxxxxxx, showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:22:58 +0000
I'm stunned...appalled...and I may use this story as an example in my 
intercultural class.   
Karen
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> I was told that this did not go out, so I am sending it again. I am sorry if 
> some did get it, but I think it is important to know you have to work hard 
> and fast when someone attacks your dog. This is a new client of mine, but it 
> seems to me that it is too late. 
> 
> 
> 
> I moved on 6 acres in Sacramento, Cal. In the first 4-5 days I was 'set-up" 
> by a jealous competitor/friend that as she called the Sac SPCA as she knew 
> they hated breeders and despiced my breed as the Sac SPCA are very prejudice 
> against anything that looks like a Pit Bull. The Sac SPCA came out while I 
> was 
> gone and went thru my house and put a notice on the door saying to 'too many 
> dogs' and to respond in 24 hrs. The next day I went to the SAC SPCA office 
> with my notice in in hand and sat there for 3 hours waiting to talk to a 
> filed 
> supervisor. No one would talk to me. While I was waiting in their office 
> unbenoticed to me the Sac SPCA was raiding my house I had just moved into for 
> 4-5 days and taking my beloved show dogs out of their kennels on rope nooses 
> attached to a poll around their necks. NO WARRANT, they had 24 hrs to get 
> one. Ironically as they portrayed me as a "Pit Bull Fighting Ring" on every 
> TV 
> Station, Channel 3, 10, 13 etc, my Dog Buyers recognized my dogs on TV, so 
> they called into the TV stations angrily telling the media the Sac SPCA made 
> a big mistake. In fact the Owners of Raleys Supermarkets have 3 of my dogs 
> and recognized their dogs parents. The street was blocked off, the media 
> descended like vultures. As all this was going on I sat waiting patiently in 
> the Sac SPCA office. In the raid of my house my personal belongings like my 
> deceased heirlooms jewelry, clothing, TV's, camera's, everything, was looted 
> as 
> my address was made known by the media. I was in a state of shock when I 
> found out, as I drove in my place and of course all my dogs were gone, and my 
> landlord said to 'get out' due to all the media surrounding the house which I 
> never saw myself. I had given my landlord a check for rent of $650.00 and 
> he was waiting for me to 'sign' a leese, but I would not due to the 
> conditions 
> of the house he promised to fix, like my well, etc. I went down to the Sac 
> SPCA and demanded my Show Dogs back with my first Attorney, they laughed in 
> our faces. They said I had to have a Adminstrative Hearing which was 3 weeks 
> away. I could not stay at my newly rented house because of the landlord 
> telling me to leave, besides I was in a trama state do to my show dogs 
> seized. 
> I went with a new Attorney, my Second one to the Adm Hearing which I hired 
> the day before. In the Adm Hearing the Manager of the Sac SPCA said my Show 
> dogs were "fit and healthy' quote unquote. The hearing officer said I could 
> have my Show Dogs back if I paid kennel bill of $15,000 for 3 weeks board and 
> Vet Bills for one of my beloved Champions who had Cancer. A paided bill. I 
> did not have the money, as my money was tied up in my 3 pregnant bitches who 
> were seized in my raid, as I had all my pups sold to Canada all all over the 
> US. My show dogs sell from $2,500 to $5,000 and up. My second Attorney 
> assured 
> me and said 'don't worry Janet I will not let your dogs rot in the pound" 
> after I wrote him a check he dropped me, promising me all along he would file 
> a 
> writ and get a restraining order to protect my dogs, he never did!! When we 
> walked out of the Adm Hearing he said out loud 'I could use another $500,000, 
> when I get thru with the SacPCA I will own them', of course I was impressed. 
> I hired a third Attorney and he said 'no one in our state capitol want to go 
> against city hall, he never did a thing, nothiong. I hired a fourth 
> Attorney he assured me my show dogs would not sit in jail any longer, he was 
> appauled what happened to me, as he was a dog lover and his pooch sat in his 
> office 
> on the bay in Alameda. I asked him to draw up a petition in Federal Court, 
> he said he would, then I had to wait till the last day before out deadline to 
> file when in fact he promised me weeks before the petition would be done. 
> The day before I drove to Alameda and found out the petition was not ready, I 
> was soo stressed as he promised. I did not have his home number, so I 
> called the Alameda PD to have them call him at home and told the PD I had 1 
> day 
> to 
> file my petition he was drawing up, as it would of been dismissed, dropped, 
> and everything I had been fighting for would be gone. He came down to the 
> office well saturated with wine and he had to start working on my complaint. 
> I 
> called a well known Attorney friend (Real Estate) and his wife and him said 
> to camp out in front of his office till it was finished, which I did, in 
> fact had to sleep in my van which I got in trouble for. He finished the 
> complaint, but I was shocked it would have to be filed in State Court not 
> Federal, 
> as 4th amendment, Illegal Search and Seizure. He was soo late in drawing up 
> the complaint I had to drive it myself to the Sac Courthouse and made it 
> exactly by 1 minute, the guy upstairs was pulling for me, as thought they 
> closed 
> at 5pm they close at 4:30p. I could not locate my 4th Attorney for months, 
> even drove up there to his office, doors locked. I was going crazy as months 
> went by, he 'never' called me, and I left a hundred messages, all this time 
> my 
> poor dogs were roting in the pound. Then I found out thru someone he was on 
> State Disability for months, he never told me. He never had the guts to 
> fight City Hall. He dropped me, and I appeared in front of the Sac Superior 
> Court judge he told me I had 2 weeks to find a new Attorney or my case would 
> be 
> over. I sat at a computer literally from 8am till 5pm and talked to 100 
> Attorneys as I made my notes on everyone I talked to, they said the same' 
> they 
> told 
> me they would not go up against City Hall, especially in the State Capitol. 
> No one would help me. The on my last day at 5pm I saw a sign flashing on the 
> web, it said 'Civil Rights Attorney' so I called him and told him I had to 
> appear the next day at 8:45am or my case would of been thrown out. He said he 
> was for the 'underdog' the little person, and said I have been majorly 
> abused. Then I had another shocker hit me, my 5th Attorney and new Attorney 
> said 
> 'hope you are sitting down' he said 4 months after dog show raid and personal 
> belongings were looted, the Sac DA filed a warrant for my arrest, 'for what I 
> said"?? So my 5th Attorney and I went to the Sac PD and had to get finger 
> printed and photos for 22 counts of animal abuse, how humiliating and de 
> humanizing. Again, 'for what'??? Remember, the Sac SPCA manager said my 
> dogs 
> were 'fit and healthy". I went to Criminal Court with my Attorney and the 
> judge knew it was BS, also the judge was appauled the Sac SPCA killed 2 of my 
> show dogs to Parvo epidemic at their dog pound, he was also stunned that I 
> had 
> 3 show bitches pregnant and the Sac SPCA did not know where the puppies were. 
> The judge was impressed I had one of my males in a Hollywood Movie, and 
> that my show dogs were worth in acsess of $500,000. The judge was clearly 
> upset 
> with the Sac DA, and said it is recorded that her dogs were 'fit and healthy' 
> and dismissed the 22 counts of animal abuse. Thank God, as if I had a 
> conviction I would never be able to show or breed a AKC dog again. Again, all 
> this 
> time my beautiful show dogs were rotiing away in the Sac SPCA. A Sac 
> superior Court Judge ruled that because my 2nd Attorney never filed a Writ my 
> show 
> dogs were thrown out of my case. But did urge the Sac SPCA to give me back my 
> show dogs. Two years ago I went to a dog boarding kennel in Davis, Calif with 
> my present Attorney and saw 10 of my dogs, they were tramatized, the old ones 
> screamed in delight when they saw my face and smelled Mom, the young ones 
> were snapping and growling at us, not even recognizing me due to the shock of 
> being held in abhorrent conditions. One on my prized favorite bitches had a 
> huge eye infection no one was treating. It was beyond tramatic for me and the 
> dogs, one of the worst days of my life, other then when I lost my parents to 
> cancer. To see my beauty pageant winners become orphans were devasting to 
> me. I went to a settlement conference in Feb of 04 in Sac with my Attorney. 
> My Attorney stated that we wanted my show dogs back and money for damages. 
> The new Sac SPCA manager (old Manager fired after 19 yrs, due to how he 
> handled 
> my case, yea yea!!! )was there with their Attorney, the Attorney for the 
> City of Sac was there, and my ex landlord was there with his Attorney. All of 
> the Attorneys said they would 'drop' my $350,000 judgement (kennel bill) they 
> filed on me if I just 'walked away' anotherwards 'got lost'. So my Attorney 
> and I informed them it would not happen, and he said 'look we want the dogs 
> back' the settlement conference Attorney screamed at us, not said, but 
> screamed 'the dogs are dead', the dogs are dead'!!! I was horrified and ran 
> hysterical out of the room, my Attorneys face was white in disbelief. The Sac 
> SPCA 
> gased all my 22 Show Dogs and 3 pregnant bitches, and 3 puppies., Knowing my 
> family of dogs were alive kept giving me the steam to fight these corrupt, 
> evil, despots. I came from winning the Super Bowl of the Dog Show World to 
> beyond the grapes of wrath. They butchered a famous line that now is non 
> existent.It is truly amazing how 1 women could ruin your life, take you to 
> the 
> ground, combined with a backyard mentality Gov agency, that never, ever, 
> thought 
> this single lady, no family, no help, would fight City Hall. After this 
> entire espisode, the anguish was too much for me to bear to find out my 
> beloved 
> show dogs were massacred, after all these years of fighting I landed in the 
> hospital. 
> 
> Evan 
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> Evan 
> 
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