Originally Posted by megansmomma (Post 3945196)

Since this seems to be directed at me Sherrylynn, let me address you directly. Tanisha Breton is notorious for her breeding practices. She has allowed her bitches to suffer and even die while giving birth in the past, yet she continues to produce puppies. There is nothing you can say to justify what she is doing including stating that she is feeding a market. She allowed a bitch to crawl about her living room while giving birth with a puppy stuck in her vaginal for hours crying in agony. Then took pictures of her preteen daughter holding that dead puppy. She sat with another bitch in the parking lot of her vets office while in labor because she did not have the financial mean to pay for an emergency c-section in the middle of the night. There is NOTHING to justify this type of behavior or unethical breeding practices to feed the need for tiny puppies. Additionally, there is not a reputable breeder that would EVER breed 2 and 3 lb females to intentionally feed this need. Saying that there is a need for this tiny sized Yorkie is like saying baby seals should be clubbed to head because someone wants a seal fur coat!

Finally, I would like to remind you that after your Ellie died from complications of AAI you contacted me to help you bring home your new little girls from Michigan. I picked Lynnie up at the train station and drove from Chicago to Michigan. We met Wendy and her husband on the side of a highway. The reason that I did this was to help you both heal from the loss of your little girl Ellie and help to med the heartache that was created by your breeder. I remember you saying that your breeder did nothing to help you both financially when you spent a great deal of money to try to save her. Your response to me afterward was to UNFRIEND me on Facebook after I drove HOURS to pick up your new baby. You then lied to me about not removing me as a friend, claiming you didn't know how that could have possibly happened. :rolleyes: You asked me to send you another friend request that has sat ignored for almost 2 years. Your actions toward me speak volumes then as well as now. My lesson was learned. :(


I will not stop with Tanisha EVER! She needs to be stopped and the misery that she perpetuates from her breeding ethics is not something that you or anyone else will ever be able to justify in my eyes.

Prayers from you or anyone else will not help this poor puppy. Rescue and responsibly will. :thumbdown

Originally Posted by sherryllynne (Post 3945646)

First my comments were directed at no one personaly. Was just saying bashing from any of us of Tanisha brought no solution to save the aai pup. I am sorry you took it personaly Jodi.
You did not need to tell me about her- i am well aware of her breeding practices. God knows i do not condone the bad things. Simply was keeping door cracked in case she would change her mind. You sold me too short about what i know and have actively confronted in this entire case.
Just this morning i stated to someone in our aai group it was difficult to know to to comment in this thread- because i was grateful to you for what you did for lynn to get to Maleah. Then to ladyjane because of transport of roriee. And she was always supportive with Ellie.
But all of that got ruined.
I am terribly offended you chose to bring up a subject not related to this topic.
To bring up my beloved Ellie and my precious Maleah is unacceptable to me.
To bring up fb and call me a LIAR is highly unacceptable to me. I owe you no explaination. Esp now- why i select who my fb friends are.
But you can assume i want positive People in my life. Certainly not one that disses my baby i lost to aai and my sweet gifted yorkie. I have done nothing to you and i am shocked at your outburst.
You have now shown me why i never come here- you come across as caring more about insulting people than anything. And i am tired of it.
For the record i do appreciate the past but deeply insulted by your behavior and emotional outbursts about something so superficial as fb - while discussing a serious aai matter. . I am done.

Originally Posted by sherryllynne (Post 3945646)

First my comments were directed at no one personaly. Was just saying bashing from any of us of Tanisha brought no solution to save the aai pup. I am sorry you took it personaly Jodi.
You did not need to tell me about her- i am well aware of her breeding practices. God knows i do not condone the bad things. Simply was keeping door cracked in case she would change her mind. You sold me too short about what i know and have actively confronted in this entire case.
Just this morning i stated to someone in our aai group it was difficult to know to to comment in this thread- because i was grateful to you for what you did for lynn to get to Maleah. Then to ladyjane because of transport of roriee. And she was always supportive with Ellie.
But all of that got ruined.
I am terribly offended you chose to bring up a subject not related to this topic.
To bring up my beloved Ellie and my precious Maleah is unacceptable to me.
To bring up fb and call me a LIAR is highly unacceptable to me. I owe you no explaination. Esp now- why i select who my fb friends are.
But you can assume i want positive People in my life. Certainly not one that disses my baby i lost to aai and my sweet gifted yorkie. I have done nothing to you and i am shocked at your outburst.
You have now shown me why i never come here- you come across as caring more about insulting people than anything. And i am tired of it.
For the record i do appreciate the past but deeply insulted by your behavior and emotional outbursts about something so superficial as fb - while discussing a serious aai matter. . I am done.

Originally Posted by Anaic (Post 3945695)

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Yet again where the focus should be on this poor little girl, people are making inflammatory comments, confronting their own personal adversity, have no behavioral code yet again on these forums with attempts of public shaming ? This belongs on a reality show not here where we are attempting to educate and intercede on a pups behalf. No position of respect, they like the titillation of watching someone else's fall of grace, especially if its about someone they thought owed them. This is 2 minutes of fame. No decorum or class.

Lets return to our personal commitment of the betterment of the breed, teach, educate, inform, and enlighten with the hope this pup can be saved before another tragedy happens.

I have a surviving AAI girl that I adore and abhor the breeder who breed her this way and continues to breed knowing of Shelby's numerous congenital defects !

I pray this girl receives her surgery and medical care that she deserves

Originally Posted by Teegy (Post 3945732)

If you are raising donations don't you have to give tax receipts, I have a feeling she will collect a lot of money from foolish folk my fear is this poor babe will get the surgery and be too physically weak to handle the recovery, fingers crossed, still a feeking horrid lady.
Then she will take the leftover money buy more teeny dogs and keep breeding

Originally Posted by ladyjane (Post 3945743)

If she is collecting donations and stating they are tax deductible and she does not have tax deductible status, I would think that is fraud. Don't know for sure, but that is what I think.
Also, you cannot claim a deduction for a raffle ticket purchase. If you get something for your money, it is NOT tax deductible.

Originally Posted by Teegy (Post 3945735)

someone should tell Ellen

Originally Posted by BabyGirl Rosie (Post 3945751)

The tax business is very picky. Where I work has a tax exempt number and it only works for certain things. Not everything. I think tax deductible is very similar. I am sure there are rules you could find online. But with your experience LJ I would think you certainly know what you are talking about!! ;)

Originally Posted by ladyjane (Post 3945779)

I might add that I have a foster with AAI and numerous other conditions and he is currently hospitalized and having surgery tomorrrow morning. He weighs 3.7 and is a mess, thanks to some greedy breeder .. thankfully I don't know who it was as he came to me from a shelter.
Yes, I will always speak for the pups...always! I will also, if necessary, speak up about bad breeding practices. I don't allow breeders to get me in that frame of mind that I must be nice to them. That is a ploy that many of the millers use...if you are nice to me I will surrender pups to you. I see a lot of people doing that...all it does is enable those POS breeders to continue on with their awful practices.
I am not on a campaign to go after breeders and I don't believe that all breeders are bad.......I have my hands very full saving pups...but I am also not going to be muzzled if I feel my voice might help to shut down a bad situation.

Originally Posted by Teegy (Post 3946055)

we should all go to her 3 fb pages and post questions about why she expects other people to pay for surgery on her dog produced by bad breeding practices

Originally Posted by ladyjane (Post 3945779)

I might add that I have a foster with AAI and numerous other conditions and he is currently hospitalized and having surgery tomorrrow morning. He weighs 3.7 and is a mess, thanks to some greedy breeder .. thankfully I don't know who it was as he came to me from a shelter.
Yes, I will always speak for the pups...always! I will also, if necessary, speak up about bad breeding practices. I don't allow breeders to get me in that frame of mind that I must be nice to them. That is a ploy that many of the millers use...if you are nice to me I will surrender pups to you. I see a lot of people doing that...all it does is enable those POS breeders to continue on with their awful practices.
I am not on a campaign to go after breeders and I don't believe that all breeders are bad.......I have my hands very full saving pups...but I am also not going to be muzzled if I feel my voice might help to shut down a bad situation.

Originally Posted by megansmomma (Post 3945156)

Why do I keep looking at these videos? :( Here is one of Tanisha's daughter holding the poor puppy. Her head is so fragile that it could snap at any second, yet she is allowing a child to hold her. I cannot blame the little girl for wanting to hold and cuddle the sick puppy but it's obvious to me that Tanisha does not understand the severity or the risk involved with allowing this to take place. Oh my :(

For the love of Mia Atlantoaxial Instability AAI Yorkie June 10, 2012 - YouTube

Originally Posted by yorkielover143 (Post 3946354)

Unfortunately, I was an acquaintance of Tanisha's only because I had joined her page on FB with that being said I stood up to her the other day and told her what she was doing is wrong (and obviously she threw the "F" word around and then hung up on me). If you can't afford to take care of your dogs you have no business bringing more into the world and asking others to pay your bill. Especially when your on gov't assistance and owe money to the IRS. With that being said, we all can sit her and continue to be upset, or we can take action and do something. Lets come up with some good solutions to this situation. Maybe if we can work as a team we can help this pup. I know that she has been giving it Tramadol and I told that was very hard on people let alone dogs and she said "I know when I give it to her she drools"...I told her to stop giving it to her! SO...lets work as a team and come up with some good solutions to help end this wreckless breeder!

Originally Posted by yorkielover143 (Post 3946354)

Unfortunately, I was an acquaintance of Tanisha's only because I had joined her page on FB with that being said I stood up to her the other day and told her what she was doing is wrong (and obviously she threw the "F" word around and then hung up on me). If you can't afford to take care of your dogs you have no business bringing more into the world and asking others to pay your bill. Especially when your on gov't assistance and owe money to the IRS. With that being said, we all can sit her and continue to be upset, or we can take action and do something. Lets come up with some good solutions to this situation. Maybe if we can work as a team we can help this pup. I know that she has been giving it Tramadol and I told that was very hard on people let alone dogs and she said "I know when I give it to her she drools"...I told her to stop giving it to her! SO...lets work as a team and come up with some good solutions to help end this wreckless breeder!

Originally Posted by Teegy (Post 3947063)

so I posted this information about her being an unethical breeder and a person I have not met in my meetup group has gone off on a tangent as she went to detroit and stayed with her and she is lovely and wah wah wah.
So I'm now taking it in the you know what for this and I actually don't care.
my co members and breeder friends are grateful for the information.

This other person just doesn't get it and I have a funny feeling she is the owner of teeny weeny dogs herself

Taking one for the good of the dogs, Sandra

Originally Posted by Teegy (Post 3947063)

so I posted this information about her being an unethical breeder and a person I have not met in my meetup group has gone off on a tangent as she went to detroit and stayed with her and she is lovely and wah wah wah.
So I'm now taking it in the you know what for this and I actually don't care.
my co members and breeder friends are grateful for the information.

This other person just doesn't get it and I have a funny feeling she is the owner of teeny weeny dogs herself

Taking one for the good of the dogs, Sandra

Originally Posted by DBlain (Post 3947145)

That must be Coco, we all thought it was very odd. She flew in for one meetup and did not have a dog, she acted like they were great long time friends, then we found out later they had never met in person before. From what I heard she now has a dog, but I don't believe it came from Tanisha. I saw Coco post on FB a photo of a $500.00 check she has sent her. She is at the moment definitely a believer.

I sent Tanisha a long polite email and explained how I felt she was not in a position to be breeding and that I could no longer put aside my principles against her breeding practices to attend meetups. I suggested she surrender Mia to someone that would be better able to deal with her. She sent me back a short polite reply, that she did not have to explain herself, that we have had these heart to hearts before and that some of my information was flawed. I have also messaged several people in the group, most feel as I do, but some of them still feel sorry for the dog and want to help because of that. I even managed to track down a few phone numbers for some people I never met but that have been very vocal and active in their support on FB, lets say while they are not going to be deserting the dog, it was a wake up call for them and will be approaching things differently. I think Tanisha will someone manage to get the dog the help it needs but I don't feel good about Mia recovering in her home, I have found out that the initial injury was caused by something her son did with the puppy (not exactly what, I have heard a few versions) and I have also been told that the middle son has been doing things like hiding the puppies behind things. Now she is locking the doors to all her rooms, which must be a hard way to live. I remember when I bought some of my past puppies from good breeders they would generally not sell yorkies to families with children under the age of about 8 or 10, and here Tanisha has two boys under the age of 5 or 6. I am also going to look into the ordinances in her county on the amount of dogs one can own, I am assuming she is over the limit, that might be the only approach because none of the agencies like the SPCA or Humane Society are able to help.