Oh, my God! They got me! I'm busted! I am now fully exposed and vulnerable....what will I do?! Oh! I know I'll just tell the truth with minimal personal attack. This is in response to a blog created by
"individual(s)" claiming to be advocates for animals but that are clearly experts at attacking humans by stating little truth or fact. The basis of their blog is to personally attack a person's physical appearence, how they live, their financial capabilities & how that person simply disagrees with what they say and automatically makes them wrong.....They love one-sided arguments, presenting partial evidence just good enough to "appear" to back their inuendo, rumor and slander. It's really depressing to think that someone that claims animal advocacy would waste so much time drawing up elaborate blogs, doctoring photos for personal entertainment and attacking people about the way they look when so many animals are out there waiting for that energy to save their lives.....really sad!
I founded and own B.U.D.D.I.E.S. Rescue Inc. a registered not for profit corporation in Fl. a Dog Rescue, Rehab & Training, & Adoption Center located in Myakka City about an hour and a half south of Tampa. Several mos back I posted some pics of a dog in our care that was basically in mental shut down and physically deteriorating in an effort to plea for a foster to step up and give the poor girl a change of environment that upset some people that saw her condition on facebook and they began asking me for photos of other dogs in my care so they could reference to make sure this was indeed an isolated situation and of unique circumstance and I happily agreed to take medical like photos of every dog on our property proving that there were no digs underfed, malnurished or being neglected in any way. Of course there were a few that would pose argument and say this dog or that dog could use a little weight here or there and in some cases I agreed and others argued it was a matter of personal preference and I am used to being surrounded by dogs of the "working" groups and I personally prefer an athletic dog not a dog with high percentage body fat, compiled with the fact that our dogs are allowed more than ample exercise daily and most are active personality dogs some even bordering on hyper-active. As a result of the disagreement "on facebook" some people chose the photos weren't good enough and decided to phone my local authorities and complain of alleged abuse and possible neglect of our dogs and our Animal Services responded to investigate the complaints. The results of their investigations were "UNFOUNDED" they did not see signs of neglect, abuse, malnurished or underfed dogs, they saw happy healthy dogs running the property and some in kennels (for safety purposes). The headhunters on facebook were informed of the findings and guess what? They weren't good enough still, so several people employed themselves as spies to come out under the guise of being volunteers I guess to see for themselves. This charade lasted the better part of a year and they helped place a few dogs here & there but nothing to really brag about and then abruptly stopped. What would follow would be several more visits by our Animal Control under complaints of the same allegations and the results were still the same...."UNFOUNDED". This created an email flury that inundated other local agencies when AC's findings proved unsatisfactory to these "advocates' " agendas the agencies included Health Dept, Dept. of Public Safety, Child Protective Services, and even a few Dept. Heads and atleast one county comissioner. After being investigated by all these agencies and the results time and again coming back "UNFOUNDED" guess what??? STILL NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!! These ladies (and I use the term loosely) wanted justice and they wanted it NOW! As a result of so much pressure being put on Animal Services and county commisioners, Animal Services was told to come out once again but this time..."Find something wrong, so these lunatics will shut up!" And they did, what we had was a system of allowing dogs to sleep indoors at night and bringing them to outside kennels during the day and having periodic play groups allowing the dogs exercise, socialization etc, and some of the kennels did not have dog houses in them that way down deep in an ordinance says one must be provided for every dog in a kennel, caged area, tethered or that does not have open access to an indoor facility to escape the elements and we were cited for 43 violations of "Failure to provide proper shelter" some of our paperwork was a little less than savory as well and we could not produce 21 certificates of rabies vaccinations that we were also cited for. Within 7-days of the citations we built 35 dog houses, located 7 of the missing certs for rabies and redone 14 to become completely compliant with the infractions. Upon reinspection after the seven days we were no longer in violation of any ordinances or county laws once it was brought to our attention. In fact when we went to court 2/3 of the citations were dismissed and the other 1/3 retained for county record and adjudication of guilt withheld and we were ordered to pay $1500 in fines, court costs & clerks' fees. The previously mentioned county comissioner made her county court debut just to observe our case and was allowed to speak in saying she was happy that we were compliant. BUT...guess what? STILL NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE FACEBOOK HEADHUNTERS!!! They have now started accusing me of stealing donations to buy unnecessary items and negelecting the dog, abusing my fiance & children. They have spent countless hours doctoring photos, writing outright lies and posting this trash all over the internet that will allow them to.
The facts of this case are as follows:
Accused of neglect....CLEARED
Accused of abuse......CLEARED
Accused of child neglect....CLEARED
Accused of domestic abuse....CLEARED
Accused of drug use...CLEARED
Accused of code violations...COMPLYING
Accused of fraud....STILL TO BE PROVEN
Accused of scamming....UNPROVEN
And the best for last, Accused of exploiting animals for financial gain......YEAH RIGHT!!!
The facts of the matter are this, I did some things that upset some people that were in disagreement with me they have exhausted every legal avenue to get redemption for difference of personal opinion and as a result of their failure to change laws to suit their opinions and emotions they have turned to outright slander, name calling and harassment to seek justification for my supposed bad actions. They told mom & dad and THEY got in trouble and now they're pissed. These people are not advocates of any sort, in fact they are all self servents with self-gratifying agendas and nothing more, the internet has made them feel superior to others because they have the option to simply "delete" consequences for their actions and have lost touch with the real world where people have to work to eat and have to work even harder when they choose to take on the obligations of mouths of others' to feed.
It's amazing how I summed up the FACTS in just ONE blog not a 7-8 part series with more to come, that alone should speak volumes.....
In addition to their so called advocacy blog or bogg, they are posting updates as in dogs being rescued from BUDDIES as if it had something to do with their actions or silly blog, when in FACT it was the networking skills of BUDDIES Rescue Volunteers as with every adoption/rescue since the onset of this idiotic escapade. Lilly is being placed thanks to volunteer staff and the hard work of our adoptions coordinator and her pending adopter's interest and nothing else.
These women are perverted versions of what real advocates should be even adding pornographic images to facebook pages, depicting beasiality, cunnilingus and masterbation...these women are sick, twisted and need to be black-balled from the rescue community as they are doing more harm than good.
Sincerely,
Keith Wandell
Founder & President
B.U.D.D.I.E.S. Rescue Inc.
