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kitkat3478

by kitkat3478 on 02 August 2017 - 16:08

UPDATE: 7/31/17
I spent time yesterday afternoon, along with Niki, at Nancy’s place, and she’s a wonderful woman. She is understandably upset about what has happened, but she is clear, focused and has her “eye on the prize”. We toured her property (on a four-wheeler that Nancy drives like a race car…most fun I’ve had in months!). Niki’s rescue GSD (and a former foster dog of mine), Enzo, had a big time swimming in the pond on Nancy’s property, running alongside the four-wheeler and doing his very own inspection of the grounds. I haven’t seen a lot of working dog kennels, but I was impressed and have a feeling most working dog owners would be envious. Fourteen, well-built indoor kennels with smooth concrete floors, as well as full electric and even hot water (which they use to sanitize bowls, toys, etc.). Before we arrived, Nancy and her help for the day were busy installing a variety of electronics around her property (understandable in light of recent events) and were bushwhacking tall grasses and small trees from the edges of Nancy’s land. Hopefully, both of these important tasks will deter prowlers with bad intentions. I asked Nancy a lot of questions about how she runs her kennel and, while I had a general idea before, I feel better educated knowing what a normal routine entails. For instance, when a kennel is cleaned, a dog is moved temporarily to an airline crate. These are working dogs, and they can’t just all be let out to run around. In addition to raw meat (gasp!), Nancy’s dogs get things like sweet potatoes (she has a steamer in the work area of her kennel just for this), beet pulp and other goodies that ensure that her dogs get required vitamins/minerals and maintain a healthy weight. There are also outdoor kennels with dog igloos that are used at night when temps are cooler. The kennel is orderly, and there is a place for everything. For example, there were boxes with just bowls, boxes with just grooming supplies, boxes with just toys, a cabinet where things like shampoos are kept. There are also industrial fans with reversible motors so air can be blown in or out of both ends of the building. These are not the kind of fans you put in your bedroom window! There is a large pond at the rear of Nancy’s property, as well as another near the front, that her dogs love to swim in, as well as kiddie pools for her dogs. I wish I had brought my own dogs…they would’ve loved exploring Nancy’s property.

On June 29, 2016, a tornado ripped through Nancy’s property, doing damage to her kennels, as well as her home. Even now, over a year later, the path this twister took is still obvious. Her insurer, State Farm, is jerking her around and hasn’t given her a check for repairs. So, Nancy cashed in her IRA, which was enough to pay for thousands of dollars worth of repairs to JUST the kennels, but not her own home. So, the kennels are tip-top, and Nancy can't live in her own home. Yeah, this woman loves her dogs!

We also talked about problems that Nancy has had with trespassers and Alamance County authorities since moving to this property not long ago (as well as some other things that are best relayed to her attorney). Nancy’s property is almost entirely cleared; however, the property that adjoins hers is heavily treed. Earlier this year, she called (yet again) to report prowlers along the back of her property near the kennels. She explained to law enforcement that people regularly put hunting stands along the edge of her property and shine lights into her home. Not happy to just take a report, the sheriff’s department hauled Nancy off for five days (have to see when hunting season starts in Alamance County!). They KNEW no one was there to take care of her dogs, but they apparently were ok with them not eating, drinking, etc., for those five days. When Nancy returned, not only were her dogs starving, but several had injuries (things like ligature marks and scrapes on the inside of their rear legs). And two of her dogs were dead (she thinks they were poisoned). Hauling Nancy away from her home seems to be a recurring theme. When her property was (once again) inspected on Saturday, July 22, Nancy was again removed from her property and returned to find that all of her dogs had been taken.

On the morning that Nancy’s dogs were taken, she had gotten up just before dawn because the dog staying inside with her wanted to go out. She put the dog in the kennel nearest the tree line along the edge of her property. A few hours later, this would be one of the dogs found dead by Cheryl Gulley, a woman who had been hired on the Monday (July 20, 2017) after Patience made her videos. Nancy told me that Cheryl showed up at the kennel that morning (after not showing up the day before), told her that she had dead dogs back there and left with two of Nancy’s puppies. For what it’s worth, I sent a message to Cheryl asking her to send me a good contact number for her, and she refused and asked why I wanted to talk to her. A few minutes after Cheryl left , authorities in three vehicles showed up for another “inspection (raid?)”, followed no more than five minutes later by two more vehicles. Within just a few minutes of the discovery of the dead dogs, there were no less than nine vehicles at Nancy’s property, 4-5 police officers, 2-3 animal control officers (two were in plain clothes because it was their day off), as well as someone from social services (who showed up with two police officers, followed by another two officers). It’s almost like they were all on standby, waiting around the corner, for the call to come in about the dogs.

All four of the dogs that were found dead were in the same area, nearest the tree line that borders Nancy’s property. They were all fine the night before, according to Nancy. They were all sables (one was a recent Czech import), and they ranged in age from about a year to nine years old. The dog that Nancy had put into the kennel a few hours before was now unrecognizable. It’s face was destroyed, and it’s eyes were gone. It’s fur was stuck to the ground, and Nancy said it looked like someone had burned her dog's face off. Not sure how the spokesman for the sheriff’s department can state that there were no signs of trauma to any of the deceased dogs. The description of how this dog was found surely constitutes trauma. The other three had no signs of trauma.

One of the sheriffs told Nancy that she needed to come with him to the station to make a statement. When she returned, all of the dogs had been seized. No warrant, no paperwork, nothing signed by Nancy. She was given paperwork on the following Wednesday (July 26…four days later) that lists the “property” they took from her. They also gave her 18 pages with a photo of a dog on each that are supposed to be hers, with an intake date of July 22, 2017. There’s only one problem…one of photos is NOT one of Nancy’s dogs, and the intake date is July 24. So AC has either lost one of Nancy’s dogs or something has happened to one. I guess they figured Nancy wouldn't recognize a dog that wasn't hers.

A few days ago, someone slashed Nancy’s tire, which isn’t the first time this has happened. People have bullied, taunted her and injured her dogs. I can’t imagine the nightmare that Nancy has been living through since she moved to this home, and now they’ve taken her dogs with no regard to her rights under the law. I talked to a friend of Nancy’s yesterday who was there when a sheriff told Nancy, last Wednesday, that she could go to the shelter to see her dogs. When she arrived, someone told her that the sheriff had changed his mind! On top of that, one of her dogs is due to give birth (or may have already)...a shelter is no place for for these babies! No one will give Nancy information about her dogs. They told her that the necropsy results would be in July 27, a date which has come and gone with no info provided to Nancy. Nancy has not been charged with anything, and her dogs should be returned to her. For what it’s worth, I would be 100 confident leaving my dogs with Nancy, but I would fight like hell before I’d leave my dogs in a shelter!

Please sign this petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/426/178/735/brewers-kennel-return-dogs-to-owner/?taf_id=40014540&cid=fb_na#bbfb=396455307

And please consider donating toward Nancy's legal fees, if you can:
https://www.gofundme.com/brewers-kennel-legal-fees

Posted July 25:
Eighteen shepherds were seized in NC, and four were found dead when animal control visited the property. There is a LOT of misinformation floating around, put out by individuals hiding behind a keyboard who have a personal agenda or seem to take pleasure in bullying those who are down on their luck. There are a lot of details that have not been made public, but here are some of the facts (and I have documentation, screenshots, etc., to back this up…y’all know I wouldn’t post without it). I want to preface this by saying I had no knowledge of any of these people before being tagged in a post about the situation. Here’s a link to the story…it’s important that you read it: http://myfox8.com/2017/07/24/18-dogs-seized-from-breeding-facility-in-alamance-county/

On July 15, an approximately 18-year-old girl named Patience Williams, who works for the SPCA, went to Brewer’s Kennels, owned by Nancy Brewer, under the guise of applying for a kennel job. She went with her boyfriend, who was also "applying for a job". Someone named Ashlee Jennings has posted comments about being there as well (I assume she is the other girl Patience told me was there applying for a kennel position). Patience told me that she was there from 9:30 a.m until 3:00 p.m, that Nancy knew she worked for the SPCA and that Nancy allowed them unlimited access to the entire property. She also said that it’s a “puppy breeding mill”, but when I asked her how many puppies were there, she replied that there were two (I’m no expert, but two puppies do not qualify as a puppy mill). Instead of doing the job she was being paid for and cleaning kennels, she took video BEFORE she cleaned any of the kennels. Patience and her boyfriend were paid $20 for TWO HOURS work before they had to leave suddenly because of an emergency.

On July 16, at 4:15 p.m, Patience posted on Facebook asking everyone to call the sheriff’s office and report animal cruelty at Nancy’s business. She also posted Nancy’s address, and said that dogs were standing in their own urine and feces (possibly because she didn’t do the job she was paid to do) and that they were being fed raw chicken. She claimed that the dogs were given no water until 1:30 pm (wasn’t it her JOB that day to feed, water and clean?). Her post was shared over 1,700 times. That’s one thousand, seven hundred. Keep in mind that no one had contacted AC at this point! Patience Williams herself, who was at Nancy’s property the morning of July 15, didn’t even call animal control until July 16.

On July 15 at 6:39 p.m, a Facebook group called Guilford County Animal Services WATCH posted about the situation. This page is NOT affiliated in any way with Guilford County Animal Services, and it seems this page only exists to share other peoples’ posts. And of course to post disparaging stories about Guilford County Animal Services (for the record, SGSR has pulled dogs from this shelter, and they were nothing short of professional and very easy to work with). I'm surprised the actual shelter has not requested that the county attorney send the admin of the page a cease an desist to make them stop using the name. I am told that the admin of this page is named Shawn Henegar, and that she is a disgruntled, former volunteer of Guilford County Animal Services. Shawn doesn’t even live in Guilford County, she lives in Colorado. That’s Colorado, the state. Within minutes of Shawn posting and before anyone else posted a comment, Patience posted the following on the GCAS WATCH page (yes, a day before she posted to her own Facebook page):

- video of a dog walking around in a kennel blowing it’s coat
- video of someone’s boots (maybe trying to show a wet kennel floor?)
- video of 3 airline kennels (one with an active adult GSD, one that was empty and one young GSD who had been sleeping but started to get up when the person filming started to open the door to the crate)…FYI, the owner built a state of the art kennel…airline crates are used temporarily while those kennels are being cleaned
- video of someone prying an adult dog’s mouth open so it’s teeth could be shown (for the record, working dogs don’t always have the best teeth…ask anyone who does Schutzhund, etc.)
- video of a freezer full of frozen chicken

I was tagged in the post and my first thought was that the videos looked staged. I researched the “players” because I didn’t want to share something unless I was sure the information was solid and reliable. I expected to find unfavorable information about Brewers Kennels. What I found was the opposite. I spoke with someone who has gotten three dogs from Brewer’s over the years, and her dogs were of the highest quality…100% healthy (mentally AND physically) with no joint or hip problems (one lived to be 14 years old). I have since heard about others who got dogs from Nancy, and they have nothing but positive things to say about her. I can’t find any complaints on the internet about Nancy, nor can I find any court cases involving this facility or the owner. Everyone I spoke with said that the owner “lives for her dogs” and it’s apparent that she has more working-line shepherd experience than most of the professional trainers I know, combined. I posted a long comment on the post about how I felt Patience had gone to Nancy’s property under false pretenses and how I felt people were on a “witch hunt”. It wasn’t long before my comments, as well as those of others who commented favorably about Nancy, were deleted, and people were banned from the page.

In the meantime, people started verbally attacking and bullying Nancy. Patience went back out to Nancy’s property on July 17 (I believe most people call this trespassing), and Nancy had to run her off. Animal control visited Nancy’s property and was not able to substantiate ANY of the claims. In fact, on July 18, the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office posted on their Facebook page that investigators had physically inspected her property on multiple occasions in recent days and found no evidence of criminal violations.

On July 22, investigators went to the property again, and what they found this time was very different than their previous visits. Sadly, four dogs had passed away. All four were healthy, had no signs of obvious trauma or emaciation and passed away around the same time. Animal control seized the remaining 18 dogs. All that’s known for sure is that something unthinkable happened in the four days between AC visits. Within moments of the seizure, someone posted on Patience’s original post that the dogs had been taken away. Patience immediately posted a comment about collecting donations. The next day, she edited her original post and added that she was going to start a donation fund for the dogs. When I questioned her about it, she removed that part of her post.

On July 24, Shawn posted the news article about the situation at Nancy’s property and tagged me, along with a few other people who had spoken favorably about Nancy. Of course, this started a whole new dialogue, with even more people posting favorably about Nancy and lamenting how she had been mercilessly bullied. Comments were deleted, people were banned, but Shawn continued to post comments, although it doesn’t seem that anyone else can post (seems that she’s turning commenting off unless she wants to leave a comment herself to disparage someone). She posted sections of screenshots, an attempt to harass and shame those who spoke out against her. Then she started bashing SGSR, even going so far as to post screenshots of our volunteers' Facebook pages. And in her latest comment, she’s insinuating that Nancy killed her dogs on purpose. Last I heard, the results of the necropsies had not been released, and who’s to say someone didn’t go back out to Nancy’s property and kill the dogs?

Everyone can form their own opinions, but I think the way this has been handled is deplorable. It’s terrible that four dogs died, but does that make it right for zealots to bully someone who is obviously having personal difficulties? Of the hundred and hundreds of comments on these womens’ posts, only a few people commented that Nancy probably needed help. I think bullies are scum of the earth, and God forbid they ever find themselves in a position where they need help.

The dogs are at Burlington Animal Services, and although they are part of a pending investigation, they have already posted the dogs on their Pet Harbor page (are they even allowed to do this?). I'm told that two are sick because they are being fed shelter food rather than the high-quality diet they are accustomed to. I was also told that a woman who worked for Nancy for many months (and had quit a few days before the raid on the property), showed up at the same time authorities did and took the two puppies (* there are two puppies now listed on PetHarbor, shows they came in 7/25...three days after the other dogs). I certainly hope the sheriff's office is looking into the possibility that a disgruntled former employee or PETA wannabe poisoned Nancy's dogs!

kitkat3478

by kitkat3478 on 02 August 2017 - 16:08

WOW, WOW and WOW
18 dogs seized from breeding facility in Alamance County
ALAMANCE COUNTY, N.C. -- Animal control has seized 18 dogs from a breeding facility in Alamance County after four dogs were found dead this weekend.
Several call and posts on social media sparked an investigation into possible animal neglect or abuse at a German and Dutch Shepherd breeding facility in Alamance County.
Sheriff's officials showed up at Brewers Kennel on Union Ridge Road multiple times over two weeks and they didn't find anything wrong.
"The problem is, when we were getting this information, [it] was coming to us off of social media and stuff like that, we go out there, and we find better food than you feed your family," said Randy Jones, the public information officer for the Alamance County Sheriff's Office.
Posts on social media indicated awful conditions at Brewers Kennel, such as dehydration, heat stroke and the dogs eating only raw meat.
"Well some of that stuff on Facebook was saying, 'Well the dogs were standing in their own urine and feces,'" Jones said. "Do you see anything?"
"High quality food provided on the premises, everything's being done in a proper manner there," Jones said. "We found absolutely no issues whatsoever."
But on Saturday, deputies and animal control officers responded to another complaint. According to a press release, this was the only time investigators found evidence of "possible animal neglect."
Sheriff's officials found four dead dogs and they say all the dogs appeared to have died within in a short time of each other.
Sheriff's officials say they also have no idea what happened. The dogs didn't show signs of abuse, neglect, trauma or emaciation.
The four dogs were sent to Raleigh for canine autopsies and the criminal investigation can't move forward until the autopsies show how they died.
"We need to do this in order to have the prosecution," Jones said. "We can't go forward until we have some idea of what did or did not."

SOMETHING DEF ROTTEN IN DENMARK!!!!!

by Mad4Dogs on 06 August 2017 - 18:08

UPDATE: Kennel owner arrested on four counts of starving dogs

 

BURLINGTON, N.C. – The owner of a Kennel in Alamance County wanted on felony charges after four dogs were found dead has turned herself in.

The Alamance County Sheriff’s Office said Brewer’s Kennel owner, Nancy Brewer, is being charged with five counts of Cruelty to Animals. She also charged with four counts of Killing an Animal by Starvation.

It all stems from an investigation in July after four dogs were found dead following a complaint about possible animal abuse at the kennel located on Union Ridge Road. Investigators removed 18 other animals from the shelter.
The dogs seized from the kennel have been placed in various shelters.

http://www.wfmynews2.com/news/crime/kennel-owner-arrested-after-four-dogs-found-dead-in-burlington/462015461


kitkat3478

by kitkat3478 on 06 August 2017 - 18:08

I still do not see the necropsy
Where is the proof?
The police were there 4x in just a few days before this saying all dogs looked good, what, police did not see 4 skinny dogs? C'mon

Another:
Something rotten in Denmark
Mad4dogs first time "I " see you here

kitkat3478

by kitkat3478 on 06 August 2017 - 18:08

Very nice of you to sign up just to give update
SOMEONE did something to this woman's dogs

by SitasMom on 06 August 2017 - 18:08

I'm confused, the sheriff visited 4 times, said the dogs were in good condition, then just a few days later dogs starved to death?
I just don't understand.

kitkat3478

by kitkat3478 on 06 August 2017 - 19:08

That's why it is mind boggling SM
Yes, police were there several times just days before,
I have been looking daily for necropsy results, havn t found them yet

kitkat3478

by kitkat3478 on 06 August 2017 - 20:08

Now I just read the news story
If that dog in the swimming pool is hers, she should be in trouble
And how could the cops have missed 5 dogs looking like that?
But she said days ago one pic was not her dog.
Just mindboggling for real

by hexe on 07 August 2017 - 01:08

Funny thing, in the new report from July 25, we have this:

"Investigators don't know the cause of death for the dogs at this time. They say the dogs did not appear to be abnormally thin, and there were no obvious signs of physical trauma."

So did the dogs starve AFTER they were dead, then? Because a dog that dies of starvation LOOKS like it's died of starvation--it most certainly WOULD 'appear to be abnormally thin'.

There's so much bullshit being shoveled around by the authorities involved in this case that they should change the name of the location to Pamplona.

And while the dog shown in the kiddie pool is leaner than I typically like to keep my dogs, we also don't know anything about that animal--could be a young dog, could be a dog with a malabsorption issue that's under treatment, could be a dog she just got back from a bad situation...and frankly, the dog isn't unreasonably lean to begin with.

kitkat3478

by kitkat3478 on 07 August 2017 - 04:08

Truly mind boggling isn t.it hexe?
Sad situation. Its getting you really can t trust what the official s in these cases say, or actually know





 


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