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Hi there,
I personally started this campaign to help with the legal fees for Nancy Brewer, who I (and many, many others) feel has been wrongly accused of the charges against her. There is a LOT of misinformation floating around, put out by individuals hiding behind a keyboard who have a personal agenda. Here are some of the facts (and I have documentation, screenshots, etc., to back this up…I wouldn’t post without it). I want to preface this by saying I had no knowledge of any of these people before being tagged in a post about the situation. Here’s a link to the story…it’s important that you watch the video: http://myfox8.com/…/18-dogs-seized-from-breeding-facility-…/
Nancy Brewer, the owner of Brewer's Kennels in Burlington, NC, has been a dog trainer for about 30 years and is a reputable breeder of working line shepherds. She has provided shepherds to law enforcement, as well as placed them in pet homes. On July 15, a girl who works for the SPCA, along with her boyfriend and another friend, went to Brewer's Kennels under the guise of applying for a kennel job. This girl told me that Nancy knew she worked for the SPCA and allowed them unlimited access to the entire property. She also called Nancy's business a “puppy breeding mill”, but when I asked her how many puppies were there, she replied that there were two (I’m no expert, but two puppies do not qualify as a puppy mill). Instead of doing the job she was being paid for and cleaning kennels, she took video BEFORE she cleaned any of the kennels. She and her boyfriend were paid for their work before they had to leave suddenly because of an emergency. Maybe an emergency related to the pending trial she and her boyfriend are facing for multiple, felong drug-related charges...
On July 16, at 4:15 p.m, this girl posted on Facebook asking everyone to call the sheriff’s office and report animal cruelty at Nancy’s business. She also posted Nancy’s address, and said that dogs were standing in their own urine and feces (possibly because she didn’t do the job she was paid to do) and that they were being fed raw chicken. She claimed that the dogs were given no water until 1:30 pm (wasn’t it her JOB that day to feed, water and clean?). Her post was shared over 1,700 times. That’s one thousand, seven hundred. Keep in mind that no one had contacted AC at this point! This girl herself, who was at Nancy’s property the morning of July 15, didn’t even call animal control until July 16.
On July 15 at 6:39 p.m, a Facebook group called Guilford County Animal Services WATCH posted about the situation. This page is NOT affiliated in any way with Guilford County Animal Services, and it seems this page only exists to share other peoples’ posts. And of course to post disparaging stories about Guilford County Animal Services (for the record, SGSR has pulled dogs from this shelter, and they were nothing short of professional and very easy to work with). I'm surprised the actual shelter has not requested that the county attorney send the admin of the page a cease an desist to make them stop using the name. I am told that the admin of this page is named Shawn Henegar, and that she is a disgruntled, former volunteer of Guilford County Animal Services. Shawn doesn’t even live in Guilford County, she lives in Colorado. That’s Colorado, the state. Within minutes of Shawn posting and before anyone else posted a comment, Patience posted the following on the GCAS WATCH page (yes, a day before she posted to her own Facebook page):
- video of a dog walking around in a kennel blowing it’s
coat
- video of someone’s boots (maybe trying to show a wet
kennel floor?)
- video of 3 airline kennels (one with an active
adult GSD, one that was empty and one young GSD who had been
sleeping but started to get up when the person filming started to
open the door to the crate)…FYI, the owner built a state of the art
kennel…airline crates are used temporarily while those kennels are
being cleaned
- video of someone prying an adult dog’s mouth
open so it’s teeth could be shown (for the record, working dogs
don’t always have the best teeth…ask anyone who does Schutzhund,
etc.)
- video of a freezer full of frozen chicken
I was tagged in the post and my first thought was that the videos looked staged. I researched the “players” because I didn’t want to share something unless I was sure the information was solid and reliable. I expected to find unfavorable information about Brewers Kennels. What I found was the opposite. I spoke with someone who has gotten three dogs from Brewer’s over the years, and her dogs were of the highest quality…100% healthy (mentally AND physically) with no joint or hip problems (one lived to be 14 years old). I have since heard from others who got dogs from Nancy, and they have nothing but positive things to say about her. I couldn't find any complaints on the internet about Nancy, nor could I find any court cases involving this facility or the owner at this time. Everyone I spoke with said that the owner “lives for her dogs” and it’s apparent that she has more working-line shepherd experience than most of the professional trainers I know, combined. Nancy has provided dogs to local sheriffs’ departments over the years as well. I posted a long comment on the post about how I felt Patience had gone to Nancy’s property under false pretenses and how I felt people were on a “witch hunt”. It wasn’t long before my comments, as well as those of others who commented favorably about Nancy, were deleted, and people were banned from the page.
In the meantime, people started verbally attacking and bullying Nancy. Patience went back out to Nancy’s property on July 17 (I believe most people call this trespassing), and Nancy had to run her off. Animal control officers visited Nancy’s property four times between July 16 and July 22 and were not able to substantiate ANY of the claims. In fact, on July 18, the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office posted on their Facebook page that investigators had physically inspected her property on multiple occasions in recent days and found no evidence of criminal violations. The sheriff's department spokesman basically stated that Nancy's dogs eat better than he does.
On July 22, investigators went to the property again, and what they found this time was very different than their previous visits. Sadly, four dogs had passed away. All four were healthy, had no signs of obvious trauma or emaciation and passed away around the same time. Animal control seized the remaining 18 dogs. Within moments of the seizure, someone posted on Patience’s original post that the dogs had been taken away. Patience immediately posted a comment about collecting donations. The next day, she edited her original post and added that she was going to start a donation fund for the dogs. When I questioned her about it, she removed that part of her post. But she did set up a GoFundMe account, which has recently been removed for violating their terms of service.
Everyone can form their own opinions, but I think the way this has been handled is deplorable. It’s terrible that four dogs died, but does that make it right for zealots to bully someone who is obviously having personal difficulties? I think bullies are scum of the earth, and God forbid they ever find themselves in a position where they need help.
The dogs are at Burlington Animal Services, and although they are part of a pending investigation, they have already posted the dogs on their Pet Harbor page (are they even allowed to do this?). I'm told that two are sick because they are being fed shelter food rather than the high-quality diet they are accustomed to. I was also told that a woman who worked for Nancy for many months (and had quit a few days before the raid on the property), showed up at the same time authorities did and took the two puppies (* there are two puppies now listed on PetHarbor, shows they came in 7/25...three days after the other dogs).
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