This guy tried to contact me (don't know him) but he came up as knowing Vickie Lanig, so did more research and found this recent posting and others on Rip OFF Report:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/directory/Timothy-Helser.aspx

Timothy Helser Animal Cruelty, Dog Trainer, Dog Boarding, Animal Abuse, Liar, Scam Artist Brookville, Ohio

While I can't stop blaming myself for not trusting my gut feeling about Timothy Helser from the first day I met him and doing my due diligence to research this man PRIOR to him almost KILLING my dog, I've decided to try to move on by sharing my story so hopefully the next person who does meet him and gets that same "something just doesn't seem right" feeling and turns to the internet will see this most recent account of what he has done to not only my dog, but my entire family.

Recent is actually an understatement. And he will know exactly who this is based not only on my screen name, but also on the timing of this post as it was just 2 hours ago that a police officer had to accompany my family to Timothy Helser's home to retrieve my dog from his care only to find that he was being kept in the most deplorable and unsanitary conditions you can imagine and had a skin infection covering his entire body, which was easily noticable due to him no longer having any fur. We took our pet directly to the nearest veterinary hospital where he was imediately put on an IV and antibiotics, but not until after he was put on the scale to be weighed where we learned that the 89lb dog we turned over to Timothy's care for "boarding" just 60 days ago now weighs just 63lbs. 

In addition to feeling terrible for leaving our pet in the care of someone who obviously did not care for him properly, I can't help but keep running the math through my head of how we were billed (an paid) over $800 to reimburse Timothy for vet visits (which we were told had his skin infection totally cleared up a month ago and now he was just on one more month of maintenance antibiotic/steroids) and also being billed for $60 bags of dog food, which supposedly he was going through two 50-lb bags each month. In no situation does 200lbs of dogfood in 2 months attribute to a dog losing 25lbs. AND, at no time were we told that our dog's skin infection was getting worse (as I said, he told us it was better and almost cleared up with any fur he'd lost from scratching himself "growing back") nor were we told our dog was sick in any way, losing a ton of weight, or being kept in a filthy cage filled with urine, feces and vomit.

The vet is estimating he will need to keep our dog for 2 - 3 weeks to monitor him IF he makes it past the next 48 hours. IF!! As I said, in addition to blaming this man for what he's done (and taking the proper legal actions against him) I am also mad at myself for not turning to the internet to read all the similar stories others have posted over the years until now. Luckily my family realized we needed to remove our dog from his care when a red flag went off 3 weeks ago when he stalked us for a payment that wasn't due for another 20 days and threatended to keep our dog for breach of contract. It was bizarre behavior and made me wonder what was really going on that he needed that money so desperately and would even mention us not getting our dog back EVER. Additionally, he wouldn't send any pictures or videos of our dog as promised and cancelled an appointment with a family member who flew into town just to see the dog. 

I don't know how this man sleeps at night but he better say a prayer tonight that our dog makes a full recovery or the additional $8,500 that we paid f

 What do you expect from the STD of the dog world... Lets be honest the only reason he is still alive is because it,s illegal to just kill him.

Yes but why is it illegal?

Hunger4justice...I am very sorry for this situation...
Keith and Bob ...I have been watching Bonanza lately, I like their style ; )

Ruger,
It wasn't my dog that almost died in Helser's care, but like you, I feel very sorry for the owner and dog.  For some reason he tried to contact me and I don't know him, but remembered that name in a bad context so I checked and found that terrible story from September of this year and many others dating back for YEARS.  Scary and infuriating.

My boys don't like strangers and I would not/could not board them anywhere.  My elderly parents complain they have to fly to see me because I won't leave my dogs!

   I thought there was a New policy on this Site which makes Personal Attacks Verboten on this Forum,even if they may be warranted if proven by facts.

very sad story im sorry to hear about your dog , if that was me i would really want to hurt him but you are doin the right thing goin through the law ;)

It wasn't my dog...he just tried to contact me.

hunger4justice, I'm somewhat confused...I understood that the dog in question wasn't your dog, but what I'm not clear on is WHO tried to contact you--Helser, or the owner of the dog that nearly died in Helser's hands?