I would like to say, I do know this woman and was offered the opportunity to work with her and the dogs. I fell instantly in love with the dogs and thought I had found my true life's calling. I was very honest with her about my past and some unfortunate things I went through as a result of some vindictive ex husbands. She expressed compassion and amazement that I had survived some terrible years of abuse and offered what I thought was the opportunity to turn my life around. When I went to work for her, she worked me for at least 18 hours a day with no rest. Not everything you see on camera shows what goes on in the rest of the house. I was so exhausted when finally while putting together 4 old bassinetts (requiring lots of parts with no instructions) at 4AM that I finally stood up and literally collapsed across the bed to try to just grab at least an hour of sleep. I was abruptly fired the next day and was told that if I were a heart surgeon performing heart surgery, I wouldn't be able to just get up and walk away. I had only made the decision to take a break that night because I was not allowed to take any breaks until that point, I was ready to literally collapse and James had offered to finish putting together the last bassinet. When a personal friend of mine's mother passed away the next day, I asked if I would be allowed to attend the funeral. She agreed to let me go the funeral, but then fired me over the phone that day saying I was lazy and not cut out for the work. I loved those dogs with all my heart and developed a bond with them very quickly. The webcam viewers loved me and even sent me fan mail until she went on the chat room and started trashing me saying I had a lengthy criminal record (absolutely untrue). My ex husband had vindictively had me arrested on false charges which I was later completely cleared of, and she used the arrests (no convictions because there were none) against me and threw me under a bus slandering me to her viewers. She abused me mentally by telling me I was codependent and terrible decision maker. I looked up to her as a mentor until I saw her true colors. She has since not been able to keep any help other than James (who she runs ragged until all hours of the late night into the morning). James cried when I left and I gave him my word I would do what I could to put a stop to her mistreatment of her "employees". I was never paid for all of the hours I put in for her. On the day I came to pick up my belongings, she claimed the night before that CNN would be there to do a story on the puppies. CNN never came and she denies that she ever said that. Believe me, she is one person on camera and a different person off camera. She and I were both smokers and she taught me how to smoke in the puppy room without the viewers knowing by lighting a candle and then lighting cigarettes off the flame of the camera (out of the site of the viewers). She never mistreated the dogs, I will give her that. But the way she treats her workers is a completely different story. Its sad, because I truly felt rewarded and fulfilled being with those precious mommas, daddies, and babies, having lost children of my own they filled a void for me. Its sad to me that she felt the need to trash me to a world of viewers and have them swallow what she said without question. She also has another room off camera with at least 20 more dogs that if they were known to be there, she would be breaking all kinds of county codes - however i'm glad she's doing what she can to help those dogs. I really do wish her the best and I really wish she could have had a little compassion rather than being so cruel knowing my situation. I sure do miss those dogs. They really are the best breed I have ever had the pleasure of working with.
