BTRA(Biewer Terrier Registry) Manager Arrested for Animal/Child Cruelty

[gidget529]

I should also say, I know NOTHING about Biewers as a breed other than I find them to be a good-looking dog. I'm horrified that someone would treat these beautiful dogs like that. It's heart-breaking.

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by gidget529

I should also say, I know NOTHING about Biewers as a breed other than I find them to be a good-looking dog. I'm horrified that someone would treat these beautiful dogs like that. It's heart-breaking.

Not that it matters, but the dogs in question were not Biewers they are a mixed breed called MiKi's.

According to the IMR, the Mi-Ki is a new breed started in the late 1980's by a woman who went by the name of Micki Mackin, among others. She resided in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and it’s suburbs. She started developing a strain of small dogs from the Papillon, Japanese Chin, Maltese and the small Shih Tzu and in 1993 there was a Papillon/Yorkshire Terrier mix stud that she introduced to some of the females. Unfortunately, she did not keep accurate records, so the degree of mixture or combination of the breeds used is not known. Some credit Micki Mackin with the use of her name when she called the little dogs Mi-Kis (pronounced Mee-Kee). The International Mi-Ki Registry proclaims to be the Developing Founder. The IMR has taken that strain and through a strict breeding program, including DNA profiling through the United Kennel Club, Inc., is developing and refining the Mi-Ki into a new "made in USA" pure breed. Mi-Ki Information and Pictures, Mi-Kis, Mi-Ki Puppies, Mi-Ki Photos, , Miki

Since there is no real look for the MiKi, I believe it's just a "designer" type of dog, and you can find these available in most pounds and shelters.

[gidget529]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

Not that it matters, but the dogs in question were not Biewers they are a mixed breed called MiKi's.



Since there is no real look for the MiKi, I believe it's just a "designer" type of dog, and you can find these available in most pounds and shelters.

Oh my. I guess in all the discussion on the thread, I missed the pups were MiKis - not that that makes animal abuse/neglect any more tolerable. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by gidget529

Oh my. I guess in all the discussion on the thread, I missed the pups were MiKis - not that that makes animal abuse/neglect any more tolerable. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

Yeah, that's why I've been confused about all the talk of the Biewers, but she also was on the board for a Biewer registry.

[JoAnne_Miller]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

Yeah, that's why I've been confused about all the talk of the Biewers, but she also was on the board for a Biewer registry.

There are lots of issues here--not only just one.

One: BTCA sold fraudulent championship titles.
Two: BTRA the registry for BTCA is run by people who run puppy mills and who were even arrested for it.
Three: The apparent sad sacks above actually DEFEND that corrupt organization.
Four: people who have positions of trust among dog breeders and dog showers put themselves on a step above the rest-- just like priests do.
Fiveeople who go out of their way to violate trust should NEVER be trusted again.

[Rochester]

Originally Posted by JoAnne_Dee Ashley

There are lots of issues here--not only just one.

One: BTCA sold fraudulent championship titles.
Two: BTRA the registry for BTCA is run by people who run puppy mills and who were even arrested for it.
Three: The apparent sad sacks above actually DEFEND that corrupt organization.
Four: people who have positions of trust among dog breeders and dog showers put themselves on a step above the rest-- just like priests do.
Fiveeople who go out of their way to violate trust should NEVER be trusted again.

Tiffany is not on the board of the Biewer registry. If you hire a plumber due to water damage and your insurance company pays the bill, does that plumber now become a board member for the insurance company?

The BTCA hired Tamara, not Tiffany, to do the paper work on the Biewer Terrier registrations, because no other registry will make sure that only purebred Biewer Terriers are being bred. Pretty much everybody hires the AKC to do their registrations and not the APRI, or CKC (American). Neither one of these women sit on the BTRA board, because there is no BTRA board.

The only reason BTRA was mentioned in this post is because Georgia Warren, Dee Ashley, Kathy Scott and Sharon Elliott were suspended from registering their dogs with BTRA because of various violations, otherwise no one would have posted anything about a MiKi breeder on this forum.

[Rhetts_mama]

Yawn.

Any word on what's going on with the animal cruelty case?

[JoAnne_Miller]

Originally Posted by Rochester

Tiffany is not on the board of the Biewer registry. If you hire a plumber due to water damage and your insurance company pays the bill, does that plumber now become a board member for the insurance company?

The BTCA hired Tamara, not Tiffany, to do the paper work on the Biewer Terrier registrations, because no other registry will make sure that only purebred Biewer Terriers are being bred. Pretty much everybody hires the AKC to do their registrations and not the APRI, or CKC (American). Neither one of these women sit on the BTRA board, because there is no BTRA board.

The only reason BTRA was mentioned in this post is because Georgia Warren, Dee Ashley, Kathy Scott and Sharon Elliott were suspended from registering their dogs with BTRA because of various violations, otherwise no one would have posted anything about a MiKi breeder on this forum.

Defending corrupt organizations--Perfect example.

[concretegurl]

Originally Posted by Rochester

I have to agree with you, what does a registry have to do with anything. We all know why the registry was mention. Do you find it odd that nothing was mentioned about the other registries that APAD represents?

I would like to know how many people are walking around their homes in an inch of water? It certainly isn't the norm, yet the paper mentioned it as though it were. How do you think that water got there?

Most breeders that raise their dogs in their homes are going to have pee pads all over the place, unless they have them in cages. When you leave home for the day you are going to put down twice as many. After being at a ball game all day with her CHILDREN, she came home to a flooded house due to a broken water pipe. As I said there is more to the story that the newspaper isn't printing. Everyone knows what sells a paper and unfortunately, it isn't sunshiny skies.

It was informative to say this person's associations...hmmmmmm attacking the messenger for reporting facts is telling of your agenda here in the least.

Originally Posted by luvpets

After reading all of these posts, I decided to do my own research and call those involved including the Animal Control in AZ. This is what I found out:
1. There are absolutely no complaints against Tamara and her dogs.
2. Tiffany NEVER had her children taken away.
3. Tiffany has no affiliation with the running of the registry that her mother owns.
4. Neither Tamara or Tiffany have ever been members of the BTCA or BTRA, they have never owned Biewer Terriers.
5. Neither one of these ladies is related to anyone past or present belonging to the BTCA.
6. The confiscated dogs were altered and adopted out.
7. BTRA is not the only registry that Tamara handles. She has other clubs but due to what is going on here with BTRA, I think it is better that anyone who is interested should contact her and ask her themselves about the other clubs.

The issue here is about the dogs, so it makes me wonder what the OP's motive was to title the thread using the BTRA and BTCA names. These two entities have absolutely nothing to do with this case and it seems that there is an ulterior motive to this post. The title should have read simply:"Mi-ki Breeder Arrested for Animal Cruelty." Please ladies let's not destroy an innocent woman's (Tamara) reputation and lively hood because of the actions of her daughter who lives across the country from her.

Post link I researched for 2mns and found the opposite and that YOUR research seems very flawed...

Originally Posted by Caprice

What do most Puppymills in the USA register with?
I checked it was the AKC. If this is all about the suffering dogs than why do you all still register with AKC ?
Looks like selectiv blaming to me.

? Someone missed the point here... Truth hurts sometimes, let's all find sutions instead of blaming messengers already.


I always love Rhett's mom's posts I'm so with her on this I'm just not as nice...and Greenwood good points.

Sorry for the red, I'm just seeing it considering the issue over registry facts denial. lets look at facts here: children & animals were abused.

[concretegurl]

Here let's end the silliness of this thread getting off topic:

Nancy if the person whom is the subject of this story was involved with the AKC would you have posted this in the same way?

I swear I heard a yes, drama over.

[Caprice]

http://www.barkrescue.net/pmpicture.jpg
Puppy mills mean big revenues for the AKC. In 2006 the American Kennel Club (AKC) registered 870,000 individual dogs and 416,000 litters. At $20 per dog and $25 per litter (plus $2 per puppy), AKC brought in well over $30 million in revenues from registration of dogs born in puppy mills.

[gidget529]

Originally Posted by Caprice

http://www.barkrescue.net/pmpicture.jpg
Puppy mills mean big revenues for the AKC. In 2006 the American Kennel Club (AKC) registered 870,000 individual dogs and 416,000 litters. At $20 per dog and $25 per litter (plus $2 per puppy), AKC brought in well over $30 million in revenues from registration of dogs born in puppy mills.

Not sure what this has to do w this link? I thought this was about the animal cruelty case against Tiffany Wilkerson-Hood? If she was a member of the AKC, I would be just as appalled by the animal abuse and just as appalled by ppl who are defending it.

Just an FYI, Biewers are new to a lot of us. A lot of us don't know much about them but find them to be very good-looking dogs. When ppl defend such deplorable acts, it doesn't give ppl who admire Biewers but do not own (yet?) a warm, fuzzy feeling.

I have seen threads on this site about animal abuse at puppy mills that had been shut down. Some of these were registered w the USDA and AKC. I found the conditions of those places just as deplorable, and I know of other AKC breeders who are appalled also. Good breeders of any breed or any registry should stand up to these kind of "greeders".

[Rhetts_mama]

“The first floor of the house was soaked with urine, covered with feces and approximately one inch of standing water.”

Police found the bodies of two “Mi-Ki breed dogs” as they sorted through the mess: One was left “rotting in a bag in the bedroom,” and the body of the other was found in the backyard. The house was overrun with 37 living dogs in various states of illness, and neighbors told police that Wilkerson-Hood’s children were left to look after the animals and themselves as best they could.

The living dogs were examined by a veterinarian and had ailments ranging from gum disease to skin infections caused by “urine scald.” All had fur heavily matted with feces.

Wilkerson-Hood allegedly later told police she had been spending time at her boyfriend’s home without her children and tried not to stay at Ramsey Drive. Carlton, emphasizing certain words in her written statement, then adds, “Tiffany could only advise a couple of times that her children were NOT in the home in the past 60 days when she was asked.”

Wilkerson-Hood had a state license to operate a breeding kennel and was fined in February for its poor condition. “Tiffany … told animal control officers that she and her mother were award-winning dog breeders and things had just spiraled out of control for her at the home,” Carlton said.


Read more: Charges allege mother left children alone with dead, diseased dogs Charges allege mother left children alone with dead, diseased dogs
From the Herald & Review


Lovely. Just lovely. AKC, CKC, BTRA or any other registry, this woman is horrid.

[Caprice]

Originally Posted by JoAnne_Miller

There are lots of issues here--not only just one.

One: BTCA sold fraudulent championship titles.
Two: BTRA the registry for BTCA is run by people who run puppy mills and who were even arrested for it.
Three: The apparent sad sacks above actually DEFEND that corrupt organization.
Four: people who have positions of trust among dog breeders and dog showers put themselves on a step above the rest-- just like priests do.
Fiveeople who go out of their way to violate trust should NEVER be trusted again.

Like Priests??
This was strictly posted to discredit the BTCA BTRA and all it's members
Get your facts straight. Pick up the phone and call the people involved.What was admitted by the IABCA in a court of law was nothing more than a possible Logo infringement by the BTCA,there was NEVER any fraud. The UCI has made several statements that the BTCA was fully entitled to issue these titles.What gives you the right to stand in judgment and post false statements.
Is the real reason for your agenda, that nobody has been able to beat the BTCA Biewers fair and square. That the quality of the BTCA breeders and their dogs is by far a better than many of others out there.This smear campaign has gone on long enough .The BTCA members are very happy with their club ,the support they get and the progress of their Biewer Terriers.Yorkietalk has been used and abused by people like you, to slander innocent members of the BTCA and purposely discredit their breeding program.

[concretegurl]

Originally Posted by Caprice

http://www.barkrescue.net/pmpicture.jpg
Puppy mills mean big revenues for the AKC. In 2006 the American Kennel Club (AKC) registered 870,000 individual dogs and 416,000 litters. At $20 per dog and $25 per litter (plus $2 per puppy), AKC brought in well over $30 million in revenues from registration of dogs born in puppy mills.

CKC check you facts...posting a pup mill pic only makes ppl sad.
True pup mill dogs are also AKC registered, sad but true it's about educating buyers and calling out pup miller, greeders, abusers etc...not blaming the AKC-the only reputable registry in America.