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Do you have pets? If you do…you NEED TO READ THIS.
You all know me, and this did not happen to me, but...
Imagine, someone in a uniform shows up at my door, asking for a tour of my kennels. I’m in the
middle of morning chores, I step out to ask her to please come back later. She says she will, and
stations two deputies at my kennel door, refusing me access into my own property, for three
hours until she comes back with a search warrant. She then proceeds to seize my dogs,
WITHOUT any charges, without writing me a citation, without even leaving me an official
record of the dogs taken…IMAGINE…she takes Marco…and Charlotte…Glitch, Griffy, Ana
Banana…then Cindy Blue Who…Dexter…the Lemon…followed by DeNada (who is
screaming), and Lucia (who is shaking with fear), my old dogs Strutter and Skrewt…the Baby
Border…and on and on…think it can’t happen?
It did! To my friend Margaret, over a week now since she has seen her dogs, and still NO
CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED. Her kennel is cleaner than my house, it is cleaner than YOUR
house. Please read her story, below, and help as much as you can afford. This is a good place to
draw the line against this kind of lawless attack on animal lovers.
D'Arry Jone Frank
February 2, 2020
Dear Friends,
As you know, we are moving Star Mountain Kennel (and our residence) from Windsor, CT, to Bloomfield, CT (five miles). We have owned a farm in Bloomfield for several years and thought it would be the perfect place for my Podengo Pequenos to thrive.
On January 24 th , while we were still getting re-situated in the new facilities, the local Animal Control Officer seized fifteen of my dogs. The authorities have refused to tell me where my dogs are or why they were seized. I have still not recovered them and fear for their health and well being.
I breed and show purebred Portuguese Podengo Pequenos. I have done so for more than ten years; it is my passion. Many of my dogs are champions and grand champions. In most years one or more of my dogs rank in the top ten in the breed in the American Kennel Club rankings.
The notion that I would neglect the health and safety of any of these dogs is patently absurd. I care for the wellbeing of my dogs scrupulously.
We are currently moving them from their previous kennel at (and in) our home to a new kennel at our farm, ten minutes from the house. In early February, we will also move our residence to the farm (after the current tenants vacate the farmhouse). At the farm, the dogs are housed in a modern 2,000 sq.ft. building with washable walls, concrete floors with floor drains, central HVAC (including radiant heat in the
floors), good lighting, hot and cold water, washer and dryer, and kitchen for food preparation. They are exercised outside morning and evening during cold weather and kept inside the rest of the day and night, in large, open-web crates that allow them to stand up, turn around, and lay down. Each morning and evening, we clean their crates (they are dogs and sometimes they make a mess!) and, if needed, provide fresh towels for them to sleep on. We also tend to their quarters and other needs, washing floors, cleaning food bowls, providing fresh water, grooming them, and feeding them. In warmer weather, they have outside runs, including doghouses in which they can shelter if it rains. In a recent inspection by the American Kennel Club, my kennel operation
received the highest marks, with no negative comments.
I also care diligently for their health. The same veterinarians have cared for my dogs for years and can attest unequivocally to the level of care that they and I provide. My kennel assistant is a veterinary technician in training and can give the same unconditional account. All of my dogs were in good health when they were seized on January 24 th . I am very selective in my breeding program, striving to produce puppies that meet the highest standards for this energetic, robust, and ancient breed of hunting hounds. In recent years I have whelped four or five litters each year out of careful matches; I have studied the genetics of
this breed and use that information to avoid congenital problems (which are thankfully few in the breed). I keep the puppies of highest promise for my pack, place others of high promise with other reputable breeders or breed enthusiasts in reciprocal arrangements, and place the others carefully in pet homes. I use the Puppy Culture program to raise my puppies from birth. In most cases the puppies are with me 10 to 12 weeks and of course never leave before 8 weeks. My dogs have done very well as show dogs, in agility competitions, as therapy dogs, and as wonderful friends and companions to their owners. I am an American Kennel Club Bronze-Level Breeder of Merit.
On a noise complaint, the ACO wanted a tour of my facility on the morning of January 24 th . I politely declined. She immediately put a police officer on my property with orders to prevent my morning chores, then got a search warrant based on a false complaint that my dogs are left out overnight. (NEVER have we left an animal out vernight.) I invite you to watch the videos I have posted on YouTube (links below). Some I took on Jan 3 and 5 th of the kennel
before moving in. One I took on the 6 th , the day we moved in.
Three videos I made of our set up.
https://youtu.be/IhPucifNo9g
https://youtu.be/fqSJUw-nQN0
https://youtu.be/NwUdbGORif8
I have had to retain legal counsel, both civil and criminal. They are excellent, but as frustrated as I am with the obfuscation and delay that we are meeting in trying to recover my dogs. It has been ten days now since the seizure of my dogs. I foresee a long struggle to recover my dogs and then an ongoing struggle to keep them safe. In addition to the above travails, I have been threatened by the town attorney with arrest (without mention of what the charge might be). I plan to use your donations to pay Any the fees that Bloomfield may charge me for
boarding my dogs, vet fees for the unnecessary treatments that have been administered to them, my own vet fees if and when they are returned to me, and legal fees for my counsel and those of the co-owners. I anticipate that the total of all of this will be $20,000 - $35,000, a crushing amount for my husband and me.
I would appreciate more than you can imagine your help in paying these expenses, which I will have to do to recover and then protect my dogs. If there is any balance remaining, I will donate it immediately to one of the groups that are taking a stand against the so-called “animal rights” movement.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your help.
Margaret Boisture
If you have facebook you can see the dogs seized by the ACO
in this album https://www.facebook.com/MargaretMaryB/media_set?set=a.10158060002368205&type=3 (one dog was released to the co-owner yesterday)
You can also visit my website at StarMountainKennel.com
You all know me, and this did not happen to me, but...
Imagine, someone in a uniform shows up at my door, asking for a tour of my kennels. I’m in the
middle of morning chores, I step out to ask her to please come back later. She says she will, and
stations two deputies at my kennel door, refusing me access into my own property, for three
hours until she comes back with a search warrant. She then proceeds to seize my dogs,
WITHOUT any charges, without writing me a citation, without even leaving me an official
record of the dogs taken…IMAGINE…she takes Marco…and Charlotte…Glitch, Griffy, Ana
Banana…then Cindy Blue Who…Dexter…the Lemon…followed by DeNada (who is
screaming), and Lucia (who is shaking with fear), my old dogs Strutter and Skrewt…the Baby
Border…and on and on…think it can’t happen?
It did! To my friend Margaret, over a week now since she has seen her dogs, and still NO
CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED. Her kennel is cleaner than my house, it is cleaner than YOUR
house. Please read her story, below, and help as much as you can afford. This is a good place to
draw the line against this kind of lawless attack on animal lovers.
D'Arry Jone Frank
February 2, 2020
Dear Friends,
As you know, we are moving Star Mountain Kennel (and our residence) from Windsor, CT, to Bloomfield, CT (five miles). We have owned a farm in Bloomfield for several years and thought it would be the perfect place for my Podengo Pequenos to thrive.
On January 24 th , while we were still getting re-situated in the new facilities, the local Animal Control Officer seized fifteen of my dogs. The authorities have refused to tell me where my dogs are or why they were seized. I have still not recovered them and fear for their health and well being.
I breed and show purebred Portuguese Podengo Pequenos. I have done so for more than ten years; it is my passion. Many of my dogs are champions and grand champions. In most years one or more of my dogs rank in the top ten in the breed in the American Kennel Club rankings.
The notion that I would neglect the health and safety of any of these dogs is patently absurd. I care for the wellbeing of my dogs scrupulously.
We are currently moving them from their previous kennel at (and in) our home to a new kennel at our farm, ten minutes from the house. In early February, we will also move our residence to the farm (after the current tenants vacate the farmhouse). At the farm, the dogs are housed in a modern 2,000 sq.ft. building with washable walls, concrete floors with floor drains, central HVAC (including radiant heat in the
floors), good lighting, hot and cold water, washer and dryer, and kitchen for food preparation. They are exercised outside morning and evening during cold weather and kept inside the rest of the day and night, in large, open-web crates that allow them to stand up, turn around, and lay down. Each morning and evening, we clean their crates (they are dogs and sometimes they make a mess!) and, if needed, provide fresh towels for them to sleep on. We also tend to their quarters and other needs, washing floors, cleaning food bowls, providing fresh water, grooming them, and feeding them. In warmer weather, they have outside runs, including doghouses in which they can shelter if it rains. In a recent inspection by the American Kennel Club, my kennel operation
received the highest marks, with no negative comments.
I also care diligently for their health. The same veterinarians have cared for my dogs for years and can attest unequivocally to the level of care that they and I provide. My kennel assistant is a veterinary technician in training and can give the same unconditional account. All of my dogs were in good health when they were seized on January 24 th . I am very selective in my breeding program, striving to produce puppies that meet the highest standards for this energetic, robust, and ancient breed of hunting hounds. In recent years I have whelped four or five litters each year out of careful matches; I have studied the genetics of
this breed and use that information to avoid congenital problems (which are thankfully few in the breed). I keep the puppies of highest promise for my pack, place others of high promise with other reputable breeders or breed enthusiasts in reciprocal arrangements, and place the others carefully in pet homes. I use the Puppy Culture program to raise my puppies from birth. In most cases the puppies are with me 10 to 12 weeks and of course never leave before 8 weeks. My dogs have done very well as show dogs, in agility competitions, as therapy dogs, and as wonderful friends and companions to their owners. I am an American Kennel Club Bronze-Level Breeder of Merit.
On a noise complaint, the ACO wanted a tour of my facility on the morning of January 24 th . I politely declined. She immediately put a police officer on my property with orders to prevent my morning chores, then got a search warrant based on a false complaint that my dogs are left out overnight. (NEVER have we left an animal out vernight.) I invite you to watch the videos I have posted on YouTube (links below). Some I took on Jan 3 and 5 th of the kennel
before moving in. One I took on the 6 th , the day we moved in.
Three videos I made of our set up.
https://youtu.be/IhPucifNo9g
https://youtu.be/fqSJUw-nQN0
https://youtu.be/NwUdbGORif8
I have had to retain legal counsel, both civil and criminal. They are excellent, but as frustrated as I am with the obfuscation and delay that we are meeting in trying to recover my dogs. It has been ten days now since the seizure of my dogs. I foresee a long struggle to recover my dogs and then an ongoing struggle to keep them safe. In addition to the above travails, I have been threatened by the town attorney with arrest (without mention of what the charge might be). I plan to use your donations to pay Any the fees that Bloomfield may charge me for
boarding my dogs, vet fees for the unnecessary treatments that have been administered to them, my own vet fees if and when they are returned to me, and legal fees for my counsel and those of the co-owners. I anticipate that the total of all of this will be $20,000 - $35,000, a crushing amount for my husband and me.
I would appreciate more than you can imagine your help in paying these expenses, which I will have to do to recover and then protect my dogs. If there is any balance remaining, I will donate it immediately to one of the groups that are taking a stand against the so-called “animal rights” movement.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your help.
Margaret Boisture
If you have facebook you can see the dogs seized by the ACO
in this album https://www.facebook.com/MargaretMaryB/media_set?set=a.10158060002368205&type=3 (one dog was released to the co-owner yesterday)
You can also visit my website at StarMountainKennel.com