Griffin shepherd kennels - what do you know? - Page 8

What a shame, and the real question is, where is the real Linus?

This is the kind of crap that really pisses me off...if the dog was sterile, why wasn t he sold with limited registration? 

    If in fact this guy is putting the wrong paperwork out there on dogs, he should be prosecuted...

And stripped of his AKC privileges,  which I know AKC would do, if this is true.i also can't figure out for the life of me, how these people stay in business. 

WHY, if all these conditions are so bad, do people go ahead and buy their pups, only to turn around AFTER the fact, to voice their complaints.

    I myself believe that every AKC dog that is going to be used for breeding,(sold w/o limited registration) should be required to be DNA'd. There are far to many scammers out there passing dogs around like lost luggage. (I can't breed him, make a $$$, see ya later, alligator. ?..that just sucks...for the dogs!)

    And complaints filed with police and animal control ARE available under FOIL

My point exactly, I called the town animal control office and they have nothing on him but a zoning complaint.

What happened to this dog, IF it happened, is terrible, but there's just not proof that half the things people claim about Augusto actually happened. I absolutely would not want a dog from him, but he's far better than the click-and-treat foo foo trainers I see at the mall making peoples' behavioral problems worse.

Also, who I believe to be aka Augusto, saying one is better than the other is no damn excuse...

You don t find this info out by phone call...a request for the info must be made in writing, you must have dates the complaints were made, and usually a fee must be paid for copies...

    So, just because someone calls and asks a question that don t provide answers and proof, does NOT mean it's NOT true.

    I don t know any of these people, thankfully...and don't care to either.

I think when such shoddy shit goes on, it should be made public.

Very true kitkat. Alsoadoglover would rather try to argue instead of getting the hint that certain things are not able to be shared at this time. More will come in the near future but due to the respect of an open investigation certain things are not being completely put out there. As far as the pics of Linus, the AC has all of the information from the person that cared for the dog and vetted him. Just because your "demand" is not being answered at this time does not mean it doesn't exist.

And, btw, Augusto admits the dog went to a coupe of different homes and died from a blockage from a kong. I guess you skipped the part where it's in his own words....

and a FYI

A complaint is open records.

An arrest is open records

An investigation is not because....there is no case number.  It takes a case number to show up on any of the searchable databases that the different states use.

If there is an investigation going on, the only ones who would know would be the investigating officers.  Now they would have to release that information under the FOI (freedom of information act - which is different than open records law), but the caveat is that you have to know who to ask.  Animal Control will only know what they have in house, (ie animal complaints) they would not know about any other complaints that were made to a Sherrifs dept, Police Dept, or even a District Attorneys office. 

Any FOI request has to be made in writing to the appropriate agency.  You could file a request with a police dept and come up empty handed only to find out for example that there was in investigation but it was in the fraud task force (only an example folks) and since you didn't specifically ask for their records, you don't get them and don't find out.

Don't know what's going on here, but that's how the information side works.
 

Correct. There are 5 different agencies handling cases from him, Dept of Ag, Dept of Health, Animal Control, Police, and the Conservation Commission.

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20140815%2FNEWS%2F140819615%2F-1%2FNEWS01

Here is a bit more information. Also, he is not just breaking "one" ordinance.... he is breaking a lot of them, plus prostitution on top of that... if it was maybe one ordninance they might look over that but he's pretty much been ignoring everything, including to remove the fence and kept destroying the wetlands.

Plus over a year of complaints of barking dogs and horrifying smells.

The goats may not be illegal but think of living next to someone whose got goats, ducks, chickens, and over 20 dogs on half an acre...

I've got a big tolerance level, but that would even be too much for me.

Again...if there are complaints to animal control, why didn't they show up when I called? Generally you need complaints for an investigation.

As for the dog who died from a kong blockage, if that's true, then WHY is the breeder saying the dog is still alive?

As for the article, I see:

1. Zoning ordinances broken

2. Lack of a business license

3. A fence that's not supposed to be there.


Please tell me how any of that harms the dogs. If the dogs were in danger they would have been seized, but none of them were. And again, prostitution has NO bearing on his dogs.