Puppy Factory Closed!! ... 125 need homes....
 

I saw this on the news last night and it broke my heart but wanted everyone to see this . This is the link to the news story. Its under Puppy Factory Closed. The story said they will be needing to find homes for these poor baby’s.


http://www.wfla.com

So glad they shut this down!

Wow that sucks!!! I was surprised to see Keith Cate...I was like OMG not my town :(

OMGosh, I can't believe what some people will do for money! How could she have slept at night knowing those poor little things were in such terrible conditions?

I'm soooooooo glad she's shut down!!

i'm glad the place is shut down and i hope those babies can all find homes quick!!

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I looked at her Yorkie pages...did anyone find the photo's odd? They look cartoonish to me????? Not real!

Wow how terrible!

They look like they were painted or something. Maybe she added a photoshop filter to her pictures.

This is horrible, poor dogs. Good for them exposing an inhouse puppymill.

I agree, they look like bad paintings and some of their faces are totally fixed as to they look with some sort of disfiguration , I guess they photoshop their faces to give them a baby doll look.

I'll bet people have snapped them up already.

OMG 125 dogs I just hate that people do this and her pictures usually looked like the same dog and then she would flip it around so it was looking the opposite direction and yes the faces she did on them where insane.
So glad those babies are on their way to a real loving life.

Deana
Prestigeous Yorkies

but she had been suspended from AKC

Can someone please post a direct link to the story, I can't find it!

Looks like AKC had suspended her in 2004 to 2013.

This is a link that you can read about it.

http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/lo...b-29a2d21c8683

oh my gosh...that is just horrible! i dont understand how people can actually do this to animals! it just break my heart :cry: i hope those poor dogs can find nice loving homes

From AKC Aug 2004 Secretarys Page
http://www.akc.org/pdfs/about/secretary_page/0804.pdf

Notice
The AKC’s Management
Disciplinary Committee has suspended
Teresita Hughes of Tarpon Springs, FL,
from all AKC privileges for a period of
five years and imposed a $2,000 fine
for having submitted or caused to be
submitted, five litter registration applications
that she knew, should have
known, or had a duty to know, contained
false certification. Ms. Hughes
is suspended from all privileges of the
AKC until February 8, 2013. The suspension
will be served consecutively;therefore, this action will be effected
on February 8, 2013. (Pomeranian

I also notice from her site she has her dogs CKC. reg.
we know why.

Oh those poor babies!:( I am glad they shut her down! I hope all the babies will find forever loving homes.

no where on her site is her name mention or where she lives, just odd pictures of her so call dogs and her phone number. really weird

how sad!

Thank you very much! This is so sad!!:thumbdown :thumbdown

I guess YT members in 2006 had it right all along:


http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/sho...affinan+kennel

AKC Suspenders her BUT she has glowing inspection reports. Hmm, makes ya wonder how much green went in the inspector's pockets.

Poor babies! :(

That is really sad -- I was looking at her website, http://www.raffinankennel.net and you're right the pictures do look like they were doctored in Photoshop with the pinch tool.

Also, does this woman show??? She doesn't any Yorkie champs, but has Maltese and Pom Champions?? That is definitely odd.

There is a breeder in chattanooga, TN that is a puppy mill - I'm not sure if she has just Yorkies or what, but she has nice quality dogs and once or twice a year, she will pick ones she feels are good for showing and champions them out. These dogs get to live in the house and get the 'good life' but the rest of her dogs are chained in the back yard to these little wooden welping boxes under an overhang. Mothers and babies are out there, puppies, etc. She sells her puppies at a local flea market and doesn't allow anyone to visit her property. The law won't do anything because they feel these dogs have adequate shelter and food and water. I think her name is Cathy.

The only reason I know this is because my mom is good friends with another Yorkie breeder down that way who sells his puppies at a flea market, but he has an amazing kennel. So spotless you could eat off the floors and he takes super good care of them. He became 'friends' with her and she let him come take a look around.

I just saw this last night and I was going to post a thread about. You know the weird thing when I was researching a breeder, I recall finding her kennel as one place to check out. Here's 2 other video, the second link is from today....
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/M...1&locale=EN-US
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/M...1&locale=EN-US

The dog pics on her website dont look right. Almost look like faces are put on different bodies (if that makes sense). If it is its a very bad photoshop edit

I think it's more than just using the pinch tool...those faces are dubbed over...she has cut and pasted the same face on pretty much every dog. If you look at the last full row of pics, the pic on the left has the face misaligned with the ears...the face is tilted, but the head is straight! Crazyness!

Some more heart breaking information....... alot of the poor adult dogs have NO teeth :( at all and nails. The follow up said the dogs can be ready for adoption in thirty days as long as she is charged with criminal charges according to Florida law. So the way I understand those that can qualify can adopt these baby\'s

Its just so sad, she even admitted to leaving them in their cages for over 4 months. Just horrible!