Animal Cruelty Slide Show 2

8/6/2019 Animal Cruelty Slide Show 2

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TRUTH, LIES, DECEPTION ANDPOLITICS IN ANIMAL CRUELTY CASES

Photographic Evidence of the Fraud,Deceit and Cover Up in My Conviction ofAnimal Cruelty in February 2010 inStevens County District Court in StevensCounty, Washington.

Judge Lynda Eaton was the Trial Judge. Testifying in This Case, Were the

Government's Witnesses, Spokanimal

C.A.R.E., and the Impounding AgentAssisting Stevens County in the Raid. I Spent some 238 Days in the County Jail

For Animal Cruelty for My Own DogsEngaging in Dog on Dog Conduct on MyOwn Fenced Property While I was AtWork, and for Being Underfed.

I Lost My Home, Farming Operation,

Livestock, Companion Dogs, Dogs I HadAlready Rescued, and Incurred a $32,000Fine for an Impound Bill to SpokanimalC.A.R.E.

This Raid and Seizure Should Never HaveHappened. This Case Ended Up BeingPart of the Dialogue During a Re-ElectionCampaign.

The Appeals Court Finally Released Me.


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DEDICATION This Slide Presentation is Dedicated to All of

my Healthy, Happy, Loving and BeautifulDogs Who Lost their Lives or Were PainfullyInjured as a Result of this Raid and Seizureby The Stevens County Sheriff in StevensCounty, Washington, and While They WereSadlyJailed in Spokanimal C.A.R.E. for 84Days, a City Animal Shelter in Spokane,Washington. I Never Saw My Puppies AgainAfter My Trial, as I Was Immediately Jailed

So I Could Not Even Say Farewell to them. IKnow They Suffered in Silence With MeWhile I Was Isolated in the Jail While TheyWere Taken. They Were Mistreated andTaken By Stevens County and HumaneSocieties Unlawfully and WithoutConscience, Not Once But Twice, Both in2008 and 2010.

This is Also Dedicated to Pet Lovers

Everywhere Who Understand the Love,Intuition, Forgiveness and Loyalty of aCompanion Animal and the Human GriefSuffered By a Loss. They are Truly Our BestFriends and Citizens.

If You Have Suffered a Loss of a CompanionAnimal, May Your Next Pet Heal your Heartand Spirit and Return You to a Sense of

Peace, Safety, Love and Happiness.


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FIGHT THE CRUELTY TO PETOWNERS AND THEIR PETS

While Animal Cruelty is a Noble Cause, Please HelpStop the Abuse to Pet Owners and Their PetsThrough Arbitrary Enforcement of Animal CrueltyLaws, and to Limit the Power of State and LocalGovernments and Animal Rights Groups to theTaking of Sentient Property in Pets via the Acts ofForfeiture Built into These Laws. Animal Cruelty LawsMust be Changed to Make it Mandatory Prior toSeizure that a Licensed Veterinarian Decide WhetherSeizure or Euthanasia is Necessary or Warranted. Ascan be Seen in the Photo Collage That Follows,

Discretionary Decisions Cannot be Left to theDiscretion of Law Enforcement Officials Such asDetective James Glover Shown Here or the Mercy ofProsecuting Officials who May Make Overzealous,Arbitrary and Capricious Decisions for Any Numberof Reasons. These Reasons May Have Little to doWith the Animals. Discretion Cannot be Left to AnimalCare and Control Employees Who Work in Tandemfor Their Organizations With the Media to GenerateDonations or Profit. Animal Cruelty Laws Can Turn

Lives Upside Down for Persons Who Cannot Afford$200-300 an Hour Fees to Fight Government. TakingsDecisions Cannot be Left to Those Who Then MayClaim Immunity From Prosecution as a GovernmentOfficial or Agent. Taking Someone's Pet is LikeTaking a Child for Some - a Part of the Family. TheSense of Grief, Financial and Emotional Loss can BeDebilitating. Being Jailed, Let Alone for 238 daysWhen One Has No Prior Criminal History, isIncomprehensible Unless You Have Survived It.


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HOW TO FIGHT THE ABUSE ANDCHANGE THE CRUELTY LAWS

Please Complain on the Web topetdefense.com and/or Write to YourState Legislators to Move to Change theLaw to Prevent the Cruelty and ArbitraryEnforcements by State and Local Officials& Animal Care and Control Authorities.Tell Them to Make An UnbiasedVeterinarian the Mandatory (Not Optional)

Insurance We Need in the Equal and FairEnforcement of Animal Cruelty Laws.There Must be Accountability for Life andDeath Decisions Concerning our Pets,and There is None Really. GovernmentShould Not be Able to Take Away theSentient Property of Hard-Working &Generally Conscientious Citizens. We

Need an Equalizer to Ensure There isAccountability. Special Interest Groupsare Hacking Away at Our Rights, Backing& Encouraging Law Enforcement inSeizing & Destroying our Beloved Pets &Livestock. We Should Be Enraged andOutraged. (Photo from 10/08Raid)


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EULOGY TO THE DOG

GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY: The best frienda man has in this world may turn against himand become his enemy. His son and daughterthat he had reared with loving care may becomeungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearestto us, those whom we trust with our happinessand our good name, may become traitors totheir faith. The money that a man has he may

lose. It flies away from him when he may need itmost. Man's reputation may be sacrificed in amoment of ill considered action. The people whoare prone to fall on their knees and do us honorwhen success is with us may be the first tothrow the stone of malice when failure settles itscloud upon our head. The only absolutelyunselfish friend a man may have in this selfishworld, the one that never deserts him, the one

that never proves ungrateful or treacherous ishis dog. A man's dog stands by him inprosperity and poverty, in health and sickness.He will sleep on the cold ground, when thewintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, ifonly he can be near his master's side.

(Photo of Goober, 8 Yrs. Old, Fearful of the10/2008 Raid)

CONSTANT IN HIS LOVE


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. . .CONSTANT IN HIS LOVE. . .FAITHFUL AND TRUE EVEN TO

DEATH. . . He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer,

he will lick the wounds and sores that come inencounter with the roughness of the world. Heguards the sleep of a pauper as if he were aprince. When all other friends desert, heremains. When riches take wings and reputationfalls to pieces he is as constant in his love asthe sun in its journey through the heavens. If

fortune drives the master forth an outcast intothe world, friendless and homeless, the faithfuldog asks no higher privilege than that ofaccompanying him to guard him against danger,to fight against his enemies, and when the lastscene of all comes, and death takes his masterin his embrace and his body is laid away in thecold ground, no matter if all other friends pursuetheir way, there by his graveside will the noble

dog be found, his head between his paws andhis eyes sad, but open in alert watchfulness,faithful and true even to death.

Senator George Graham Vest, 1830-1904.Eulogy on the Dog. Johnson County CircuitCourt, Warrensburg, Missouri. See, GustavKobbe, A Tribute to the Dog: Including theFamous Tribute by Senator Vest.


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MY CERTIFICATIONI Certify and Swear That the Following is True &

Correct to the Best of My Information and Belief.

The Following are Photos Taken by an UnbiasedPhotographer on the Day of the 10/2008 AnimalCruelty Raid on My Home, and the Day After, bythe Stevens County Sheriff's Office in StevensCounty, Washington, and Seizure of My Dogs,Resulting in a Some $30,000 Impound Bill. (NoMatter That I Already Had a Licensed AnimalHaven and Ranch). Animal Cruelty Charges wereFiled. The Seizure of All of My Dogs by the StevensCounty Sheriff in Washington State was Premisedon Taking Them for Feeding and Care and forTheir Well-Being. Neighbors Sporting VideoCameras and Other Equipment Filmed the DogsOver the Fence Wherein They Began to FightAmong Themselves on My Owned Fenced FarmLand in a Rural Remote Area. I was Working andDo Not Know What (or Who) May Have Provokedthe Dogs. I Had immediately Prior Been in a 3-YearUnresolved Battle with the Neighbors Over

Boundary Disputes, Water Rights, and NuisanceDumping of Large Amounts of Debris on MyProperty Line Which Included TROs. I Also HadJust Published a Web Article on Due ProcessViolations in Stevens County. The Dogs WereAlleged at the Trial to Be Underfed, NeglectedDogs, Confined in an Unsafe Manner on MyFenced Farmland. They were Either Converted toTheir Own Use by Spokanimal C.A.R.E. or.Destroyed by Stevens County in 2008 & 2010


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If This Can Happen to Me, It CanHappen to Anyone With MultipleDogs . . .

As a Result of Overworked Public Defenders,Fraud, Deceit, Videotape Splicing & Deletions, andOther Trial Misconduct, I Spent Some 238 Days inCounty Jail on Misdemeanors in 2010 Until aReversal by the Appellate Court and My Release. IHave Been a Legal Professional for 40 Years. IfThis Can Happen to Me, it Can Happen to AnyoneWith Multiple Dogs. As a Result of Animal Cruelty

Laws & This Raid, My Home & Farm is inForeclosure. All Dogs Were First Taken in the2008 Raid & Then Were Ordered Forfeited AgainAfter the Trial in Feb. 2010 to the Stevens CountySheriff Because the Prosecutor Didn't Tell theJudge He Had Already Given My Dogs Back to Me.All Dogs Including Long-Time House Dogs,Disabled Dogs & Companions. Incredibly, MyCommercial Livestock & My Sport Horse WereOrdered Forfeited by Judge Lynda Eaton of the

Stevens County District Court, an Inferior Tribunalin Stevens County, Washington. The AppellateCourt Remanded the Issue of the Forfeiture of theAnimals Back to Judge Lynda Eaton as Wrongful,if No Hold Was on the Animals by the Sheriff.There was Not. However, My Pets & Livestock areLong Gone. Stevens County Officials HadExecuted an Unconditional Contract with Me in '08for the Dogs' Release Back to My Custody AfterThey Spent 84 Days in a City Animal Shelter


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LIES: PUPPIES DIED DUE TO CLEFTPALATE & GROSS DEFORMITIES

LIES: That My Puppies inSpokanimal's Impound Died or Hadto Be Euthanized Due to GrossDeformities, and That My DogsLived in Deplorable Conditions (atMy Place), Per Gail Mackie Exec.Dir. of Spokanimal C.A.R.E. AsQuoted by Local News Media After.The 2/2010 Trial

TRUTH: Per the Testimony ofAlicia Finch of Spokanimal

C.A.R.E., There Was AbsolutelyNo Veterinary Exam or NecropsyPerformed on Puppies atSpokanimal C.A.R.E. toSubstantiate Spokanimal's LooseAllegations of Deformities


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Alicia Finch: . . .There was NoContinuous Watering System, NoDog Bowls, and No Shelter. . .

TRUTH: Photos Taken At The Raid in10/2008 Show Fat Healthy Puppies BeingHeld by Hope Merkison, Facility Manager ofSpokanimal C.A.R.E. Alicia Finch on theRight Testified That Puppies Died in theCare of Spokanimal Due to Cleft PalateDeformities. Alicia Finch's Testimony That

She did Not See Any Continuous WateringSystem, Food Bowls and Shelters forthe Dogs Was Intended to Mislead theCourt That This was Cruelty to Animals andFormed the Basis for My Conviction. Thereis No Language in the Law in WashingtonPutting Pet Owners With Multiple Animalson Notice That They Must Have Continuous

Watering Systems for Their Animals,Individual Dog Houses, or Food BowlsLaying Around in Plain View So They DoNot Run Afoul of the Laws and LawEnforcement. I Guess 2 Small Barns andTwo Covered Porches Doesn't Qualify AsShelter. I Would Also Submit That TwoHands and a Good Memory Makes A PrettyGood Continuous Watering System


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SCRIPTED STORIES REGARDING DEATHSOF ANIMALS LIVING IN ANIMAL SHELTERS

TRUTHS: Humane Societies May BeCoached by HSUS and Other AnimalRights Special Interest Groups andTheir Attorneys to Limit Their LiabilityExposure in Animal CrueltyRaids/Seizures/Impounds Through

Scripts About Deaths of Pets in TheirShelters. Gail Mackie, ExecutiveDirector of Spokanimal C.A.R.E. Seemsto Condone These Kinds ofMisrepresentations By EmployeesWhich Are Designed to Deceive TheCourt in These Cases

Photos Taken the Day Following theRaid Show the Conditions In Which MyDogs and Puppies Were Forced to Livefor 84 Days. A Typical Animal Shelterat Spokanimal C.A.R.E. in Spokane,.Washington is a 6 foot by 3 foot Run


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SPOKANIMAL'S TYPICAL6' X 3' KENNEL RUNS

TRUTH: Deplorable KennelConditions, Disease &Stress onTheir Mothers atSpokanimal C.A.R.E., a

Shelter inSpokane,Washington,Resulted in 17 Deaths ofPuppies in the Care ofSpokanimal, and Not Cleft

Palate or Other GrossDeformities as Stated Onand Off the Court Record


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MY DOGS WERE SEIZED FOR FEEDING ANDCARE UNDER STATUTE RCW 16.52.085

TRUTH: Photo Takenthe Day After The10/2008 Dog Raid on MyFarm

LIES: Rebel WasSeized and Kenneled forCare and Feedingfor

His SafetyatSpokanimal C.A.R.E.City Animal Shelter.Kennel for 84 Days


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All VISITORS TO THE SHELTERWANTED TO ADOPT MY DOGS

TRUTH:BodieThe Day

After the StevensCounty, WashingtonDog Raid in Impoundin 10/2008 at

Spokanimal C.A.R.Ein Stevens County,Washington

UNDERFED VICIOUS NEGLECTED


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UNDERFED, VICIOUS NEGLECTEDDOGS AS ALLEGED BY STEVENSCOUNTY, WASHINGTON

:LIESMore 10/2008 Dog

Raid Photos ofAllegedly Vicious,. Underfed Dogs

TRUTHMy Companion House

Dog, Charlie, a 5 Yr.Weimaraner Mix BeingTaken

STEVENS COUNTY TOOK MY 11


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STEVENS COUNTY TOOK MY 11YEAR OLD SENIOR DOG ANDDISABLED COMPANION DOGS

TRUTH: Sam My 11-Year Old Crippled

Rottweiler At the10/2008 Raid,Moments BeforeSeizure. Sam CruellySpent Nearly the Final3 Months of His Life in

a City ImpoundFacility With SevereArthritis

NOT EVEN MY 9 YEAR OLD DOG


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NOT EVEN MY 9 YEAR OLD DOGBLIND MAGOO ESCAPEDSEIZURE FOR HIS SAFETY TRUTH: Mr. Magoo,

My Shepherd Who WasBorn Blind, and HadNever Lived Anywhere

But the Farm in 9 Years,Was Seized andImpounded in a CityAnimal Shelter for HisOwn Good. He WouldHave Been Euthanized ifI Hadn't Negotiated HisRelease.


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SLEEPLESS IN SPOKANIMAL

TRUTH: My DaisyMae, a High StrungHunting Dog RarelyAway From My Side in7 Years, WasExtremely StressedOut in ShelterConfinement. Daisy

Mae Lost Over 20 Lbs.in 84 Days After Being.Jailed


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LIES, MISREPRESENTATION ANDDECEIVING THE COURT

LIES: Stevens County ProsecutingOfficials Said There Was NoEvidence at the 10/2008 Dog Raid ofFood, Dog Bowls, Continuous Waterand Shelter for My Dogs Who WereAlleged to Be So Underfed andNeglected That They Wanted to EatEach Other. Stevens County'sDetective James Glover Leading theRaid, Spokanimal Officers AliciaFinch, Hope Merkison, and Exec. Dir.Gail Mackie of Spokanimal C.A.R.E.in Spokane, Washington Were

Coached After The Events of ThisRaid (Stevens County's U-HaulTruck.) How Many 50# Dog FoodBags Do You Imagine Are in theHorse Trailer and How Underfed areMy Dogs


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DOGS I HAD RESCUED BECAUSE THEY WEREUNADOPTABLE, WERE THEN DESTROYED

LIES: Detectives andSpokanimal: There was NoWater or ContinuousWatering System on theProperty That Could Be Seen .

Tommy Shown Here WasDeemed Too Shy to BeAdoptable by a City Person andSo She was Destroyed byStevens County. She Was aWonderful Country Watch Dog

Where I Lived in the CountrySurrounded By DrugOperations and Crime, As SheWas Suspicious of OtherPersons - With Good Reason

TRUSTING HAPPY DOGS BEFORE THE


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TRUSTING HAPPY DOGS BEFORE THERAID AND BEING THRUST INTO AFOUL CITY ANIMAL SHELTER

TRUTH: Peaceful, Happy,Trusting and Healthy DogsSnoozing in the Sun andFresh Air at My Rural Farm aFew Minutes Before The

10/2008 Raid (The JunkYard Of AbandonedVehicles, Camper Shells,Garbage, Appliances andOther Debris on My Property

Line at Top of Photo is onMy (Videotaping) NeighborLaurie & Warren Strong' sProperty. Note the Fresh.Water / Food Bags in Trailer

I VISITED THE DOGS 3X PER WEEK


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I VISITED THE DOGS 3X PER WEEK,TRAVELING 60 MILES ROUNDTRIPWITH TREATS, FOR 84 DAYS

TRUTH: Photo Taken On Oneof My Three Times Per WeekVisits 50+ Mile Round Trip toSpokanimal in the City ofSpokane, With Food and

Treats, to See My Dogs inImpound So They Would Eatand Would Not Feel AbandonedAfter Taken From the Farm inthe Raid in 10/2008. I'mFeeding the Dogs While Being

Guarded by Hope Merkison,Facility Manager atSpokanimal. I Was PreventedFrom Touching My Dogs in 84.Days


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HEALTHY DOGS OVERDOSED INRAIDS

TRUTH: Humane Societies MayBe Coached to Tell Stories byHSUS and Other Animal RightsGroups and Their Attorneys, inOrder to Limit Their LiabilityExposure in Animal Cruelty

Raids

Here is An Example Why: This isan Overdosed Young Dog WeWere Instructed to Quit TakingPhotos Of, and Who Never Did

Recover Completely From theOverdose of Being Drugged atThe Stevens County Sheriff'sRaid in 10/2008. SpokanimalC.A.R.E.'s Alicia Finch Trying toRevive the Dog


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Healthy, Happy Dogs CruellyInjured in Dog Raid on My Home

TRUTH: Cruel InjuriesSustained At the 10/2008 Raidby My Dogs Were LeftUntreated by Stevens CountyDetectives and Spokanimal

C.A.R.E. Employees. OneGolden Retriever Had to Be PutDown from Her Injuries WhichWere Left Untreated for DaysAfter Impound, Allowing Her toSuffer Needlessly. Both

Officers and Animal CareEmployees are GenerallyExempt from Lawsuits andHave Immunity and Exemptionfrom Animal Cruelty Laws inWA.

One of Spokanimal's Own


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One of Spokanimal s OwnEmployees Took One of My DogsHome for Her Own TRUTH: To Add Insult to

My Injury, I've LearnedThat One ofSpokanimal's Very Own

Employees Has NowAssumed Possession,Care and Control of MyCompanion Dog, 5 YearOld Miss Bunny, aBeautiful, Sweet, GreenEyed Weimaraner Mix. IWill Not Be Told of HerLocation by Spokanimal

E di l H lth D S id t


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Exceedingly Healthy Dogs Said tobe Underfed and Neglected

TRUTH: My 8-Year OldFemale House DogRosie I Rescuedfrom an AbusiveSituation, Waiting HerTurn to Get HauledAway in a Dog Crate atthe 10/2008 Dog Raid,

on the Pretext thatShe Needs Feeding,Care and SafekeepingDue to Neglect


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PHOTOS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVESTO TELL MOST OF THIS STORY.

TRUTH: 9 Year OldYear Old Bruiserand 4 Yr. Old CoyoteBeing Taken From theOnly Farm Home TheyHave Ever KnownSince They WerePuppies.

Rescuers Lost 2 of My Dogs Near the


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Rescuers Lost 2 of My Dogs Near theI-90 Freeway When Transporting ThemSome 350 Miles Out of Reach of Courts Huckleberry, My 5 Year Old

Siberian Mix Watch Dog andBuddy Was Sadly Lost InTransport While BeingRemoved From This

Jurisdiction by TheirRescuers, Along WithAnother Retriever Mix NearI-90 Freeway in Issaquah, WA.Craig's ListSeattle Ads AllegeThey Have Been Seen Running

Loose on both Sides of I-90 inIssaquah/Preston/TigerMountain, WA Area FromAround 3/15/2010 Through10/15/10. Who is Accountable?

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