Rat Catcher Labradoodles :Cloud Catcher Labradoodles as it really is

When Nichii Gakkan bought up Sunset Hills and Cloudcatcher Labradoodles, some money was spent updating the old and dirty kennels and I thought the dogs would have a better life even if it is in a Puppy Farm dedicated only to Profit. Then I received a report highlighting several problems with hygiene and animal welfare at Cloud Catcher as the Australian wing of the multinational Labradoodle breeding factory is now called.

The public needs to know that the online image of clean, friendly, and caring facilities is a dirty, uncaring, rodent infested, profit obsessed LIE.

Here is the reality:

Rodent droppings in the Cloudcatcher Labradoodles kitchen

rodent contaminated food bag, taped up for use

Rat and mouse traps and the droppings and dead are everywhere. Food bags chewed into by rodents are just taped up to be served to the puppies and breeding dogs despite the real risk of salmonella.

Call in Pest Control? Throw the contaminated food away as any good breeder would? No, that would eat into Profit. The managers would never stand for that!

Quote from a worker at Cloud Catcher Breeding Kennels

There is no training for the staff, just given boots and a mop and told to get rid of the droppings and dead rats and mice as if that gets rid of the dangerous conditions that puppies and breeding dogs are living in.

puppies alone in the indoor runs

Everywhere on the walls are cartoons of dogs aimed at building a media friendly image but dogs don’t appreciate art! Puppies of unfashionable colours, still waiting for sale, are kept in solitary cells unable even to see their litter mates and well apart from their mothers. I fear for their future, these goods cannot be recycled.

Puppies get no benefit from the artwork in their bleak  and boring kennels with just bedding to destroy and no toys to play with. The puppy you have paid good money for is desperate for attention and love. But attention and love costs time; and time is money. Here is a statement from a worker at Cloud Catcher Labradoodles

 

UNBELIEVABLY for a breeding kennel and against all professional advice Cloud Catcher Labradoodles is advertising to board dogs in their breeding kennels.

Many of those reading this blog are professional and caring breeders who would never risk the lives of their precious puppies by allowing strange dogs on to their premises when they have a litter. The danger of Parvo and Kennel Cough is a real concern. The danger to the boarding dogs is also very real from these dirty kennels, owners boarding their pets should be prepared for salmonella and leptospirosis.

When a Puppy Farm is also a Rat Farm the health risks are real and obvious.

 

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Jandaz: Puppy Farming a litter every 7 Days 14 Hours and 2 Minutes

In 2006 The Kennel Club registered nearly all of Janice Griffiths’ breeding. My researchers  don’t claim to have ALL the records for ALL the breeds she produces but, as a follow up to Number Cruncher’s look at the Jandaz  poodle breeding, I requested a survey was done on the other breeds as well. Here are the results of the GSD/Rottweiler/Poodles  registered in the year letter AG (2006) by Janice Griffiths. This will not include registrations that were sent in late and appeared in the following year AH but does include late registrations from the previous year AF. We don’t know if she had Cocker litters that year. 2006 is the last year for which there are proper records for Jandaz breeding as that was the year she branched out into Cockapoos and Cavapoos.

These are not ALL the litters she had that year, but they are all for which we have proper evidence.

48 litters in one year is a staggering number for a breeder claiming to home rear and socialise all her puppies, or even know which puppies are which when they are sold. Maybe that’s why she doesn’t even seem to know who her breeding dogs are or what sex they are.

One of our contributors forwarded an email from Janice Griffiths with the photos of  Pablo the sire of her Jandaz cockapoo puppy. I have included  the attachments of  Pablo, a rather feminine looking apricot or red  stud dog with a pink collar who Janice claimed to have just groomed herself.

The photos of the little poodle with a pink collar  looked familiar and an exact copy was found on the Jandaz website where it had been for some time but this time labelled “Goldie the mini.” Goldie is Windanna Golden Flake at Forestflame, one of Janice’s very hard working bitches http://www.jandaz.co.uk/622/all-my-other-friends/

Look quickly as it will be removed. The photos sent of the sire  are of Goldie, a poodle bitch 

Not a dog

Not Pablo who she claimed she had just groomed, taken pictures, and called Pab in the Pink today!

Do the lies just involve the Jandaz photos?

Remember Bella? The F1 Cockapoo sold to Ann whose sire was a Cocker Spaniel Chanpamar Freckled Fancy and whose dam was a brown miniature poodle called Jandaz Queen with photos sent to Ann together with the request for full payment in cash.

The DNA tests are in on Bella and they are unequivocal: one parent is a Miniature Poodle and the other is a Cockapoo, making her an F1b. Ann cannot be sure who the parents of Bella are. The photos she was sent may be the parents of someone else’s puppy.

But then Janice Griffiths  swears that:

1. She does not mate cocker spaniels to her little toy poodles, but we know she does. Remember Jandaz Henryetta Coney, the toy poodle puppy she mated to a cocker?

2. She does not breed F1b cockapoos that are 3/4 poodle, but we know she does.

3. She retires her bitches at 3 years old, but we know they are bred almost into old age.

4. She has been breeding cockapoos for 15 years,  but her cockapoo puppy farming started   in 2006 and in February 2007 she admitted being new to Cockapoos.

5. She ONLY breeds cockapoos, but the website shows toy poodles and she has just registered a cocker spaniel litter.

These lies are told to make Jandaz appear to be a reputable breeder. She isn’t, she’s a Puppy Farmer.

Jandaz  sells roughly 50 litters a year.  Jandaz is only licensed for 30 litters, does she breed the rest?  Does Jandaz buy puppies from other puppy farms to sell on?  Does Janice Griffths ‘make up’ pedigrees for them using names that sound almost like dogs she knows or has sold (eg ‘Jandaz Fancy’ for Fancy Fuchsia, ‘Jandaz Absolutely Spiffing’ for Jandaz Absolutely Fabulous)? So much for “pure traceable” poodles and cockers as she claims.

Jandaz doesn’t even give the right parentage for KC registered dogs she has bred herself. Changing the pedigrees so they make no sense to anyone, here the dam of the cockapoo is described as a tiny red cocker (12″!!!)  but Jandaz Black Fury was registered black and from different parents, above is her birth announcement from UK KC records.

OWNERS OF JANDAZ ‘COCKAPOO’ PUPPIES WANT TO KNOW WHERE THEY CAME FROM AND WHAT THEY ARE.

DON’T BUY FROM PUPPY FACTORIES

Jandaz: a Problem of Pedigrees.

Farms of Shame has received a bundle of pedigrees from the concerned owners of Jandaz puppies. My researchers have discovered that they show up the principle problems that we  find in the paperwork issued by puppy farms: no health testing; under age and over age breeding; breeding on successive seasons, contrary to law; and pedigrees that may not even represent the parentage of the puppies sold.

I’ve given the “petnames” as a heading for each investigation but the dogs involved are clearly not pets.

Bessie

According to Kennel Club records, Jandaz My Love had a litter of toy poodles sired by Black Blinky of Mansel on the 12th of September 2004. This was their only registered litter together and there were only two puppies: Jandaz Brown Betty and a brown dog puppy.

Jandaz Brown Betty had toy poodle litters for Janice Griffiths and I believe it can only be her that appears in pedigrees under the name of “Jandaz Bessie” as she has the same parents. Jandaz Brown Betty has no health tests.

On the 22nd of October 2007, Jandaz Brown Betty had a litter of toy poodles and just 2 weeks later, on the 3rd of November, “Jandaz Bessie” was also said to be the mother of a cockapoo litter to an American Cocker, Tisaj’s Eye Candy. One of the litter called Heidi (originally Jemma) was sold as prime breeding stock. It is unclear who the parents of these puppies really were and where they came from.

You will notice that the Jandaz ‘pedigree’ has the names changed and tweaked from the genuine UK Kennel Club registered names that I have used. This makes them impossible to find on the KC online tool when you look for health tests.

Fancy

Similarly, toy poodle “Jandaz Fancy” (parents Marcus Witha Splish Splash and Jandaz Black Millie) had cockapoo litters for Janice Griffiths. There is NO “Jandaz Fancy,” but there is a Fancy Fuchsia with those same parents.

Fancy Fuchsia’s full litter sister is prcd PRA Affected. This is a genetic condition causing blindness. Fancy Fuchsia produced 2 prcd PRA affected puppies for a breeder just down the road from Jandaz using a stud dog from Janice’s lines.

Was Fancy then handed over to produce untraceable cockapoo puppies with mangled pedigrees for Jandaz? If not, who can she be? Jandaz lines are behind 4 of the 9 prcd PRA Affected toy poodles known to the UK Kennel Club

Sadie

The name changes become all important when we look at another Jandaz ‘pedigree’. The dam of this litter was a gold English Cocker Spaniel, “Jandaz Absolutely Spiffing”, called Sadie by Janice Griffiths. “Jandaz Absolutely Spiffing” is unknown to the Kennel Club. There is, however, a Jandaz gold Cocker bitch with the same parents called Jandaz Absolutely Fabulous and it seems to me that the bitch has been renamed. But: why would anyone bother? Jandaz Absolutely Fabulous (or Spiffing) pet named Sadie was born on the 4th of December 2003 but was still apparently having litters at 8 years old on the 15th of January 2012. Sadie had yet another litter to Pablo on the 8th of June 2012, not quite 5 months later.

My researchers also noticed that a bitch, “Secret Miss”, not bred by Jandaz,  had been Jandaziced to “Jandaz Secret Miss”!  Tweaking and changing names effectively prevents owners without the research facilities available to me from knowing how old or how young the dam is or what health tests the parents of their puppy had (or, more likely didn’t have).

Henryetta

Jandaz Henryetta Coney was brought to my attention by the Labradoodle Forum. This tiny toy poodle bitch was born 31st of October 2006 and gave birth to her first litter of Cockapoos on the 30th November 2007. She had been mated as a 10 months old puppy to a working English Cocker Spaniel, Cynin Black Magic. Neither parent, of course, has any health testing. I find it difficult to believe that a breeder could not see just how risky this mating could be to her little puppy, unless money is her only aim.

Janice Griffiths has repeatedly denied mating male cockers to her tiny toy poodles. According to her own pedigrees, however, she does so as a matter of course.

DON’T BUY FROM PUPPY FARMS

Jandaz, the Statistics of Shame

Farms of Shame has received an  email from Number Cruncher which gives a breakdown of Janice Griffiths’ poodle breeding from  2004 to 2007 when most of her litters were registered and for the price of kennel club publication anyone could find out how often her bitches were bred and how many dogs she had in her kennels. In the same period Janice Griffiths also registered Jandaz German Shepherd Dogs, Jandaz Rottweilers, Jandaz Staffordshire Bull Terriers, Jandaz Cocker Spaniels and Jandaz Pomeranians. Since 2007 most of the breeding at Jandaz Cockapoos and Toy Poodle puppy factory has been of poodle cross breeds.

I found the Jandaz Poodle Breeding record very interesting. 

 32 Poodle litters were born during 2006, 20 litters in 2007. All registered with the Kennel Club and so the information can be verified. Let us not forget that this is an account of the Poodle litters and other breeds were also being sold during this time and so the total number of litters born each year may be higher.

 One toy poodle bitch, Little Black Sambo, is recorded as giving birth to 6 litters. The last 4 reported litters were born in the space of two years, with births in January 2005, September 2005, June 2006 and January 2007.

Many other bitches produced litters in back to back seasons.  For example, Harriet Hopeful produced a litter in November 2006 and then again in July 2007, Windanna Goldenflake at Forestflame gave birth in February 2005, November 2005 and then again in September 2006, Kenmillen Roxanne in September 2006 and May 2007.  Similar back to back litters for Chocolate Orange, Alexhian My Foxy Lady, Jandaz Fabulous, Bonnierose Cuddly Joy, Sunday Smile, Jandaz Black Charity and Jandaz Cream Puff.  I appreciate that mistakes can happen but for the mistakes to happen so frequently I must question the level of care has been shown to these breeding bitches.

unnamed Jandaz silver toy poodle

 

During June and July 2006, 8 litters were born.  During September, October and November of the same year, a further 10 litters were born.  Are we expected to believe that all of these puppies can be home reared and socialised as has been claimed?

One final question – Why the change from breeding pedigree dogs?

As cross-breeds are not registered by the KC, it’s easy to understand the attraction of breeding cockapoos and explains why the puppies advertised on the Jandaz website do not name each mother. It not just those that post on Farms of Shame who seek to hide behind anonymity!

Number Cruncher

Jandaz: Bella’s story

Ann has contacted Farms of Shame with the story of her puppy Bella which she bought from Jandaz Cockapoos. Thank you Ann for your courage.

Here is Bella, according to her pedigree she is supposed to be a first generation Cockapoo. I have  made enquiries of the UK Kennel Club and corrected the names on the Jandaz pedigree which  now tells me that the  sire is an English Cocker Spaniel, Chanpamar Freckled Fancy (prcd PRA Clear )and the  dam is a brown Miniature Poodle called Jandaz Queen born 11th April 2006 (no health tests). Bella is small and lightly built and was born on the 14th of May 2012 and she looks very much like a poodle with her colour presumably coming from the cocker ?

Bella’s Story as told by Ann to Farms of Shame

 I bought Bella from Janice Griffiths for £775 cash on Friday 3rd August 2012 (I did not sign a contract); she appeared to be a happy and healthy puppy.  The first problem occurred when I started to socialize her.  She would whine and shake when I took her out in public in my arms as she had not had her last injection. I’m not an experienced dog owner and  didn’t realise this was  unusual  but when she was allowed to go out on a lead the real problems started with her pulling hard to go home and terrified if approached by people, although she was not scared of other dogs. This continued for  several weeks  and Bella’s  fear became more extreme, shaking and whining if approached.

I tried to contact Janice twice by telephone, leaving messages  (these telephone calls were logged on my bill) but she did not ring me back. I also emailed her once but again there was no response. My whole aim was to make life easier for Bella and  I wanted to get help from the breeder who had promised lifetime backup on her website.

I got no help and Bella and I were becoming very stressed with her fear of strangers, in fact she was only at ease with myself and my husband and she was even fearful of other members of the family. The situation was impacting on my health so I grabbed for the only lifeline that I could find and phoned The Cockapoo Club of GB which offers help to any owners and Cockapoos in need. We made the decision to take Bella to Lincolnshire and leave her with Stephen and Julia Charlton who had kindly offered me respite.  I took her back a month later as I had got a referral to a therapist and Bella had been well socialised by the Charltons with their dogs and they had tried to take her into town. The Charltons reported that Bella would pace back and forwards at the end of the lead, trying to find an opportunity to flee the space, if put within about 1.5 meters of any stranger.

I sent Janice a courtesy email to inform her that I had placed Bella in the hands of The Cockapoo Club of GB and within an hour I got a call back, wanting her returned with an offer of a full refund. I didn’t feel that was the best course of action for Bella. This was the email I got back from Jandaz! 

I took her to a reputable behaviourist  who said that Bella was a very anxious dog and recommended that she was not walked near my house as it is in a built up area, and not to walk in woods as that made her panic, also I had to avoid paths and confined spaces. Essentially I felt that the therapist had understood Bella very well but I was left confounded as to how I could exercise my very lively puppy without panicking her, as every time she felt afraid it would stop her improving and would make her even more anxious. I felt that I was left with no other choice but to try to rehome her, possibly as a dog kept on the grounds of a substantial country property . I asked Stephen urgently for help again and we drove the 5 1/2 hours to his home, and from then on she has stayed with Stephen and Julia who are still working with her and trying to find the perfect home for my Bella.

The emotional distress this as all caused has been bad for my health and I want my story told as I do not want anyone else to go through this torment.

Jandaz: Portrait of a Puppy Farmer

I posted on a UK Labradoodle Forum a few years ago and asked if there was any breeder they knew who deserved a place on Farms of Shame. I got a lot of emails mostly from people too scared to post but naming Janice Griffiths, breeding as Jandaz Cockapoos and Toy Poodles in Wales.

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Mrs J Griffiths, Jandaz GSD’S, Fynnon  Gynnen, Cross Inn,  Llandysul, SA44 6NH

Licensed for 30 bitches

So the following is drawn together from several contributors with apologies for the delay.

The first story was from A Dog’s Life and told how Janice had pretended to be a good home in order to get free breeding stock from the vulnerable elderly . Here Janice claimed to have just ONE other poodle when in fact she has about 50 dogs on her premises being licensed for 30 bitches with many stud dogs present as well.

A sad story of just how unprincipled Puppy Farmers can be and led me to look into Janice’s background. Jandaz has been licensed since  1st November 2007 as Jandaz GSD’s having bred German Shepherds, Rottweilers, Cockers, Cavapoodles, Cockapoos and Poodles etc  as an unlicensed puppy farm for about 20 years previously.  Her main income up to 2004 was from GSD’s,  the greatest problem for her buyers was the lack of health testing with only 10 dogs hip scored in 10 years of breeding and even those had poor results, some displaying severe HD with scores of about 50.  From 2004 onwards the biggest income was from toy poodles and I received a document with the proof of the level of poodle breeding. 51 poodle bitches had litters for her in a period of 4 years, 457 puppies were registered with the UK Kennel Club. Not one of these bitches had an eye certificate. They were  bred back to back on every season  which is against UK breeding law but since Jandaz was not licensed at the time, that wasn’t the only law she was breaking.

Since 2008 Jandaz has mostly bred Cockapoos, using her poodle bitches as dams for yet more litters but these are not registered or easy to keep track of the large numbers. Buyers are experiencing the usual problems of buying from a puppy farm with unsocialised, sick puppies for which they pay cash.  When complaints are made, Janice doesn’t want to know and can be very aggressive to anyone who dares post their problems on a forum. Janice and her daughter Sarah (together with sock puppets) batter the poor poster into submission and if that fails there are the usual empty threats of  legal action.  Truth cannot be Libel Janice!

Here she posted as Pinkpoodle on a UK forum Jandaz AKA Pinkpoodle (Download) Some of her posting is scarcely credible and appears as if under the influence. Maybe the beer glasses used by her after washing the puppies have other use as well. I found several pictures on her website with a horrible display of her helpless puppies and I am sorry if they give my readers the same offence they gave me.

So whats it like living near a Puppy Farmer?  You assume they would keep a low profile but not Jandaz. Janice Griffiths attacked her neighbour baring her breasts and acting with no dignity at all, this landed her in court and fined with the story in the local press.

So here you have it, don’t live near a Puppy Farm and above all don’t buy from one. If your puppy is sick you will get no help or sympathy, just solicitor’s letters, threats and abuse.

Labradoodles , just another business. UPDATE, Nichii Gakkan the Multinational Puppy Farm.

株式会社 ニチイ学館                                                              子犬の農場

Since I posted that Nichii Gakkan had bought both Sunset Hills and Cloudcatcher Labradoodles, I have continued my investigation.

There is a lot of secrecy but some extraordinary facts have come to light.

Nichii Gakkan now owns another Puppy Farm in Australia in the suburbs of Sydney which is their head quarters and 3rd Australian breeding kennels.  This was previously  Tuxzat (AKA Dogtrainers) who run a “buy a puppy and pay for training”  scam which has angered a lot of owners. The kennels  have had a much needed refit for mass production.

Nichii no longer pretend that the Labradoodle breeding is for their discredited therapy dog business. How could they, a bitch has 8 puppies, are all of them intended for therapy work? Of course not, they are for sale and the therapy tag is just for publicity and to excuse puppy farming. One or two from 10 litters might be trained as a genuine therapy dog.

250 Australian Labradoodles are already in Japan and the number is rising – not pets, but entire breeding animals. The intention was to attract  Guardian homes, but of course most of these labradoodles are in their kennels, where they recently advertised for a vet.

Here I experienced culture shock. Nichii have opened a Dog Park  at Lakewoods Gardens linked to their kennels. Some of this is harmless, a field to exercise your dog, a grooming parlour; but they also have dogs for you to meet  of many different breeds.

Their annual statement has already admitted that they are breeding a variety of pet dogs – labradoodles and “other rare breeds”.

The produce of 250 entire labradoodles + any other of the rare breeds they mention takes a considerable effort to sell. Anyone experienced in dog sales  knows that, with such huge numbers, secrecy is important to keep up the myth of scarcity and prices high and that many puppies remain unsold. They must either be destroyed or sold on to pet shops. In the case of Nichii Gakkan we do not know which course they have chosen to take, we do  know that they intend to export to Singapore and China where the pet shops are looking for labradoodle puppies. Black puppies unfortunately are usually not wanted in the Japanese and Chinese market, their fate is often grim. However prettily packaged, Nichii is factory-farming dogs and every factory has a reject bin.

Nichii Gakkan has realised that the sales model of a public anxious and willing to part with their Yen for mass produced puppies has failed and they were losing large sums on the dog venture.  Now there is a new strategy in place, a Puppy Market in the Lakewoods Gardens dog park. Initially this was for a few days but it has become a rolling event.

 The 4 month old puppies for sale are well past the small cute-and-fluffy, easily sold stage. However bitches are still being mated to their flagship dog Ty (who has his own blog), giving them a constant supply of tiny saleable puppies in fashionable colours for $4000 AU. It is the sale of high priced little puppies that fuels a dog business. The lucky ones go to good homes; what happens to the rest of the litter that remains unsold in the first few weeks is the big dirty secret of the puppy factories.

The Japanese public should be made aware that Ty comes from Sunset Hills and the alternative Cloudcatcher lines are also ALL from  the major Australian Puppy Farms, Valley View, Rutland Manor, Tegan Park, Trentons and  Crawford Farm  with all the problems that we know so well.

So we  now have the extraordinary spectacle of this multinational company, respected in the field of elder care, dominating the breeding of Australian Labradoodles and Puppy Farming on a multinational scale.

Four GIANT Puppy Farms in Japan and Australia .

Did Nichii not do the minimum research before buying into this fraud?  It seems extraordinary that when all the other breeders in the world were turning their backs on these lines full of epilepsy, HD and other diseases that a reputable company allied themselves with this farce .

An Open Letter To The MDBA Award Nominees Regarding Beverley Manners of Rutland Manor at the Award Ceremony

I’ve been reading our dog forums in the last few weeks, copying some posts before they were removed. It all made for a very interesting few hours to see what the mostly pedigree dog boards full of experienced breeders  such as Dogz On Line think of the Rutland Manor fiasco and in particular the MDBA registering the Rutland Manor puppies. Some of these breeders and trainers and other professionals are expected to join Beverley Manners at the MDBA award ceremony held in a few days, for she has been nominated for the Master Breeder award and also for the Dog Trainer award!

Julie Nelson who runs the MDBA has been performing somersaults in her logic to argue in support of Beverley Manners on the Australian Dog Forums (my favourite, as it is for ALL dogs). Here at least they are not delete-happy and you can still read the thread here where, conscious that they will not remove the posts of the members, Julie is forced to put up a fight as she is being asked straight questions such as .

“I am confused about the above…
when you go to the Cobbadog webpage one of the links takes you to a Rutland Manor page which says they are still running and breeding?
Or are you saying it doesn’t matter what dodgy things she has done in the past as long as she is doing the right thing now?”

Now that’s a good question but it didn’t get answered!

Gems from Julie Nelson include

“Rutland Manor as a physical place does not exist and hasn’t done so for a long time. The Person who they refer to is a 72 year old lady who owns 5 dogs which all sleep on her bed.”

like all the hundreds of dogs Beverley has owned including all the mothers and fathers of the 400 puppies a year she was producing only 6 years ago. It’s a bed the size of Texas and full of lies.

One of the posters gave this reply full of common sense

“Hi Julie.Been reading your replies and clarifications with much interest.One thing that still has me stumped though…..”Rutland manor is not a physical place”….Yet they display photos of the pups and outside runs: http://www.rutlandmanor.com/how-rutland … ppies.html “

“Again I will say to you there is no such place as Rutland Manor. It simply doesn’t exist as a physical place where there are kennels and dogs bred. Rutland Manor is not an MDBA member and Rutland Manor is not registered with us as a prefix.If I try to answer anything else Im guessing and assuming. I can only tell you what I know.There is no such place as Rutland Manor.”

Total double think which will fool nobody. From this place that doesn’t exist, litters are being sold and the MDBA is registering them.

“we do require bone afide pedigrees but our intention is to widen the gen pool and try to help people get it right.”

This is priceless as Beverley has admitted that she faked pedigrees and we have  more examples of faked sex changed/ name changed ANKC pedigrees that she  issued to sell breeding stock and puppies. Here’s one for you MDBA, from a registry she fooled earlier.

Real ANKC Pedigree        Beverley’s faked pedigree for “registration”

Spot the difference, not just a name change but changing the sex makes this a complete fraud, the type in red is Bev’s attempt to hide her tracks. New Covenant Pty was Beverley’s failed breeding company.

Getting back to the facts, you are going to wine and dine with Beverley Manners who sold two harmless, sweet, already overbred bitches, Rutlands Billie Jo and Rutlands Bobbi Jo  to the hell hole that is Banksia Park Puppies, to be bred until death. Nothing else can be the consequence of her action.

https://farmsofshame.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/deathrow-rutlands-billie-jo-and-rutlands-bobbi-jo/

You are going to wine and dine with Beverley Manners who allowed Rutlands Happy Wanderer  to get into this appalling state, and mated her in this condition for more expensive fake Australian Labradoodles. 

You are going to wine and dine with Beverley Manners who has faked, defrauded and abused her dogs for all her breeding history for nothing more than MONEY.

Will you sit down comfortably with Beverley Manners who bred Shania at least 8 times after a  multiple mastectomy?

I ask you to call a halt on this sham in the name of the dogs you work for and with.

Yours

Ubique Larkhill, a fellow friend of the dogs

A Web of Deceit -Terragethen- Tegan Park- Rutland Manor Cobba Dogs

Puppy Farming is based on lies, fraud, and abuse, the big losers are the dogs and the owners of the pets with fraudulent pedigrees and health tests.

Look at the Puppy Farms in the title, Google them and you will come up with horrific owner stories, paper thin accolades from the owners’ well known  aliases, legal action taken against them by the authorities, and of course a few “true believers” foolish enough to believe that because their puppy was one of the lucky ones then all was well.

The puppy farmers are out for No 1 and pass on their own mistakes to each other as prime breeding stock at very high prices, amazingly the other puppy farmers fall for it. I’m not going to waste much more time on the corpses of Rutland Manor or Tegan Park except to remind everyone: DO NOT let them grow again. Don’t buy from them you really don’t know what you will be getting.

I mean it. You don’t: Here’s a case in point.The story of one dog again: Terragethan Scribbles.

This valuable pure bred Merle Poodle was sold by Anne Michele Clay’s “Terragethen Kenal” in Oak Hill Florida to Angela Cunningham’s Exotic Tiny Toy Poodle Puppy Farm and put to work to breed poodles and Tegan Park Labradoodles (AKA Cobba Dogs!) in the new Merle colour which she describes proudly http://tegan-australian-cobba-dogs.com/Tegan-Coats-Colours.htm

“CAUTION As predicted miss guided breeders believe they can “Get “the Merle pattern cheap and easy… and are crossing Collies and .???..it scares me to think!! Please be careful, Tegan created the pattern by using pure Poodle, Years of searching the globe to find out if they still existed and then finding one that was entire and able to pass its health testing. It was a long extremely expensive road I was purely lucky to see this lovely coat pattern come to life.”

The problem is that Merle does not occur in Poodles, it’s only found in puppy farms that have introduced another breed, usually Shelties or Australian Shepherds. So which was it? At least Australian Shepherds would be a home breed if you want to breed Australian Labradoodles..

So I put my investigators onto this and the answer was a surprise!

Scribble’s Dam is a “poodle” called Layla , her and her sister Lola’s pedigree is here . Oddly there is no parentage or breed given for their “parents” Gigi and Beauregard.

Here is Layla, doesn’t look like a pure bred poodle to me and my investigators’ report led me to a reasonable explanation for those oddly short legs and the impossible Merle gene. Terragethen also puppy farmed Long Haired Dappled (AKA merle) Daschunds.

Given inbreeding and breeding back to Poodles, Anne Michelle Clay created the Merle “Poodle” and sold Terregthen Scribbles to Angela Cunningham (Woolley)  as a PURE BRED POODLE.  One con artist taking in another.

Anne Michelle Clay was inspected by the AKC in 2007  and then Animal Control seized 77 poodles, 5 Daschunds and other breeds from horrific squalor in her faeces-strewn home. http://www.wesh.com/news/11457107/detail.html (Video appears after short advert). Typically she reopened under another name, Michele Walker, as Utopia Poodles. Sounds like our Angela reinventing herself whenever the law gets too close, doesn’t it?

Angela and her mother Beverley Manners’ new invention is the Australian Cobba Dog to sell all colours and sizes of what were called Australian Labradoodles

They are both mad as a gumtree full of galahs!

from the Urban Dictionary

1.	Cobba
	A person of either gender who enjoys pleasuring one selves with a corn on the cob up the ass. Joe-“My ass is sore from last night.’ Jack-“That explains what that corn cob was doing on your bed..You cobba.”
2.	cobba
	a person who cant speak properly, usually mentally impaired in some way. they seem to congregate in groups and usually are extremely unattractive. a cobba is usually drunk and has no life or aspirations in life, and will in most cases amount to nothing in life.  Noticing the embarrassment that the Cobba name caused, Bev has changed the spelling to Cobber. Puppy Farming is like any other dubious business, “change the name and do the same”

Sunsethills Puppy Farm: Rorie’s story, a puppy’s Hard Labour

As you know Farms of Shame sometimes take up the story of an individual dog in a puppy farm. I was sent a picture of  a puppy, not a happy and confident puppy but a puppy just about to have puppies herself for her puppy farmer owner,. Looking into her eyes I felt that we should try to tell the story of this sweet and shy puppy that was bought not to love but just to make money, given a sketchy pedigree and described as an Australian Labradoodle.

Here she is

Sunsethills Crimson Aurora was born on the 4th of December 2003, the result of a mating between a poodle and a cocker spaniel crossed with a labrador (or so they said). Of course puppyhood is just an inconvenience to a puppy farm and she was mated at 7 months old by Melinda Radus to a poodle and had her first litter at only 9 months old on the 25th of September 2004  at Sunset Hills Puppy Farm. She shed hair so in order to carry on the pretence of breeding “hypoallergenic ” dogs she was bred constantly from then on to poodles or dogs that were well over 80% poodle according to our researchers..

51/2 months later on the 2nd of March 2005 poor Rorie had another litter to a poodle. Her little body couldn’t cope and she had an emergency c-section almost a week early  We have a picture of her looking thin and miserable and shaved to the skin. She has some tiny puppies that Sunset Hills fought hard for as they had big money waiting for them and export deals.

You would think this 15 month old puppy had now done enough for her owner but sadly that was not all.

5 months later again  on the 11th of August 2005, Rorie had her 3rd litter after another difficult labour. The fact that she had only recently had a caesarean was not enough to give her a rest from producing puppies for sale. Rorie wasn’t fit to have a picture taken and photoshopped to the desired gold/red colour and anyway she wasn’t important, only the puppies mattered. as some were kept for breeding and sold for a minimum 25, 000 AUD as breeding stock. All this from a puppy bitch who had no real pedigree, just another mongrel. Rorie’s bitch puppies Elly, Abi, and Crimson were kept on to produce more puppies in America and Australia for Sunset Hills. 

Only 5 months after her last litter at the beginning of January 2006 Rorie was exported to America. She was 7 weeks in whelp and had her puppies at Alpenridge, Sunsethills’ American branch on the 23rd of January. This branch was first set up with Melinda’s mother Sue Broady described on the website: Sue is a wonderful and caring person who has been involved in animal breeding programs for over 30 years now.   She has a great love for animals and a talent for developing breeding programs.

Note the picture of Sue Broady 
http://web.archive.org/web/20050221165128/http://www.sunsethills.biz/sunsethills_cascades.htm
By the time Rorie was sent heavy with pup for the long and uncomfortable trip to her new “home” at Alpenridge there had been some changes, Sue Broady is now called Crystalyn Widic  but with an identical description:  Christalyn is a wonderful and caring person who has been involved in animal breeding programs for over 30 years now.   She has a great love for animals and a talent for developing breeding programs.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060429075628/http://www.sunsethills.biz/about_alpen_ridge.htm

Click on the picture of the 2006 website and you can see the Sue Broady picture now labelled Crystalyn.

This is Sunset Hills new Breeding Center located in the USA.  Our Center is operated by Christalyn Widic recently relocated from Crooked River Ranch, Oregon to Elko, Nevada, the home of the anual National Cowboy Poetry Contest!

Sunset Hills is like most puppy farms, nothing is quite what it seems, names are changed at will and we are all expected to believe everything we are told. These farms trade on the gullibility of the public who after all only want a puppy to love.

I don’t know whether life was better or worse for little Rorie in America, but I do know that she was still not allowed to just be a young dog given freedom to have fun and love with a family.

5 months later on the 2nd of July 2006 after finally having some health testing done, Rorie had her 5th litter in America at Sunset Hills new breeding centre Alpenridge. After that we do not know what happened to her. I hope she was finally retired as they claim and allowed to have a life, not just litter after litter of puppies until her poor body could take no more. Rorie, a cheap little cross breed puppy, earned hundreds of thousands for her owners, she deserved a wonderful life after being sentenced to Hard Labour every 5 months. Rorie’s life was not exceptional at Sunset Hills, it was typical for any bitch unlucky enough to remain in the kennels.

I believe that loyalty is a virtue  we should all respect, but there comes a time when we need to look carefully at what demands our loyalty and judge if it is worthy of it. In this case Sunset Hills has clearly got a number of loyal friends but it is time they took stock. I know many already have.