McNealy's Wrong ...Again

[Ann Lanier]

EXAMPLE of the ACCURACY of CHERI'S McNEALY'S STATEMENTS ABOUT ANN LANIER

Cheri McNealy recently posted: "……….the only thing she (Ann) ever printed that didn't make money for her was the kids coloring book…"

Cheri was not a part of my Doberman Quarterly business. I declined to print her "Ranting" articles in the magazine, which was her main outlet before the internet. Her interest in my business however, remains marked and she frequently posts of knowledge of the business she could not have. Things which belie her posts, such as her own benefit of wholesale printing by me, she purposefully neglects to include. She also purports to have knowledge of my private motives, plans, dogs, thoughts and conversations, which she appears to invent at will. Her posts have just enough of the truth to sound plausible, but for her own reasons she omits parts and adds untruths.

Following is a demonstration of the truth and knowledge of Cheri's posts about Ann Lanier. In response to a simple post about a unpublished book, Cheri misconstrued the book as some sort of sales catalog, and when told nothing in the book is for sale, Cheri posted: "the only thing she (Ann) ever printed that didn't make money for her was the kids coloring book…"


THE TRUTH:

Year after year Cheri received at my wholesale cost the printing of her DOBE DAYS calendars with layout and graphics, DONE FREE BY ANN. Plus, FREE cover art for her was done at my request by Armando Miro. Cheri made quite a bit of money on those calendars. She saved about two thirds of the printing cost, courtesy Ann Lanier. I made not one penny.

The DPCA PipeLine and all the DPCA printings of the Membership Directory and the DPCA Yearbook for years were printed at my wholesale cost. Just the first year I did the PipeLine I printed DPCA publications for **$117,000 LESS** than the year before. The DPCA could have been billed $100,000 more and the DPCA still would have saved almost $20,000, and I could have been $100,000 richer. Robin paid the bills direct, just to avoid accusations.

I also provided all the time, equipment, layout, graphic art and mailing lists for the DPCA publications. For free. DPCA pays for that by the page today. I made no money for doing that.

I printed nineteen thousand (19,000) color note cards for Joanna Walker to sell for her Pilot Dogs project. I donated these to Joanna for free. Pilot Dog and rescue dog articles, were featured in every DQ.

Printing color membership cards for the Doberman Owner Handlers Association for Bill Garnett was donated at no cost.

A 16 page booklet for the War Dogs for the United Doberman Club to sell to help raise money for the War Dog Statue in Guam was printed and donated at no cost.

Thirteen thousand (13,000) copies of Frank Grover and Peggy Adamson's "Learning to Judge The American Doberman Pinscher" were edited with complete graphic art and layout. Then printed. Then donated and shipped. For free... to the Future of Doberman Pinschers for my friends Peggy Adamson and Frank Grover. The DPCA's Educational Materials Committee has them. I never made a penny. This cost me about $15,000.
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If I did make money, as Cheri seems to resent, well, it didn't happen by magic. It happened by endless hours of pure hard work, attention to detail, honesty, a quality product and many more hours of my hard work. You don't bring a near defunct magazine from 112 pages to 650 pages by luck or goofing off. I might add that I fulfilled ALL my subscriptions.

Cheri personally had me removed from Cyberdobes. I'm content to live my life without Cheri McNealy, yet she obsessively publishes slanderous untruths about me to which I cannot respond.

Ann Lanier

[Elaine]

EXAMPLE of the ACCURACY of CHERI'S McNEALY'S STATEMENTS ABOUT ANN LANIER

Cheri McNealy recently posted: "……….the only thing she (Ann) ever printed that didn't make money for her was the kids coloring book…"

Cheri was not a part of my Doberman Quarterly business. I declined to print her "Ranting" articles in the magazine, which was her main outlet before the internet. Her interest in my business however, remains marked and she frequently posts of knowledge of the business she could not have. Things which belie her posts, such as her own benefit of wholesale printing by me, she purposefully neglects to include. She also purports to have knowledge of my private motives, plans, dogs, thoughts and conversations, which she appears to invent at will. Her posts have just enough of the truth to sound plausible, but for her own reasons she omits parts and adds untruths.

Following is a demonstration of the truth and knowledge of Cheri's posts about Ann Lanier. In response to a simple post about a unpublished book, Cheri misconstrued the book as some sort of sales catalog, and when told nothing in the book is for sale, Cheri posted: "the only thing she (Ann) ever printed that didn't make money for her was the kids coloring book…"


THE TRUTH:

Year after year Cheri received at my wholesale cost the printing of her DOBE DAYS calendars with layout and graphics, DONE FREE BY ANN. Plus, FREE cover art for her was done at my request by Armando Miro. Cheri made quite a bit of money on those calendars. She saved about two thirds of the printing cost, courtesy Ann Lanier. I made not one penny.

The DPCA PipeLine and all the DPCA printings of the Membership Directory and the DPCA Yearbook for years were printed at my wholesale cost. Just the first year I did the PipeLine I printed DPCA publications for **$117,000 LESS** than the year before. The DPCA could have been billed $100,000 more and the DPCA still would have saved almost $20,000, and I could have been $100,000 richer. Robin paid the bills direct, just to avoid accusations.

I also provided all the time, equipment, layout, graphic art and mailing lists for the DPCA publications. For free. DPCA pays for that by the page today. I made no money for doing that.

I printed nineteen thousand (19,000) color note cards for Joanna Walker to sell for her Pilot Dogs project. I donated these to Joanna for free. Pilot Dog and rescue dog articles, were featured in every DQ.

Printing color membership cards for the Doberman Owner Handlers Association for Bill Garnett was donated at no cost.

A 16 page booklet for the War Dogs for the United Doberman Club to sell to help raise money for the War Dog Statue in Guam was printed and donated at no cost.

Thirteen thousand (13,000) copies of Frank Grover and Peggy Adamson's "Learning to Judge The American Doberman Pinscher" were edited with complete graphic art and layout. Then printed. Then donated and shipped. For free... to the Future of Doberman Pinschers for my friends Peggy Adamson and Frank Grover. The DPCA's Educational Materials Committee has them. I never made a penny. This cost me about $15,000.
____________

If I did make money, as Cheri seems to resent, well, it didn't happen by magic. It happened by endless hours of pure hard work, attention to detail, honesty, a quality product and many more hours of my hard work. You don't bring a near defunct magazine from 112 pages to 650 pages by luck or goofing off. I might add that I fulfilled ALL my subscriptions.

Cheri personally had me removed from Cyberdobes. I'm content to live my life without Cheri McNealy, yet she obsessively publishes slanderous untruths about me to which I cannot respond.

Ann Lanier
What a nasty destructive woman... I really am constantly stunned by how this all continues to unravel, one petty nasty agenda after another, year after year after year. I have never met anyone who works to diligently to malign others. I do not understand what drives a person like McNealy... but it sure isn’t coming from a place of love or wisdom.

Long ago, when we first started reading CyberDobes I would often wonder, “How can this McNealy person claim to know with such certainty about the motive of others? Last I checked, only God is omniscient.”

Ann, if you would still have the DPCA, Arthur and I would be honored to sponsor you. I suspect that there are many others reading this who would love to have the honor as well. You deserve a DPCA Life Time Acheivement Award.

-Elaine

[Ann Lanier]

Thanks Elaine,

I have been sponsored by a breeder, Judy Bingham; a handler; by Nancy Heitzman, LifeTime Achievement winner, Past President of DPCA & BoD Member; Paul Combs, I think a LifeTime Achievement winner, Past President of DPCA; Vic Monteleon, LifeTime Achievement winner, Past President of DPCA; Lesley Reeves Hunt, DPCA Membership Secretary and Board Member but it doesn't matter. I was turned down 3 times, re-voted on and turned down again.

My membership was submitted without comment to the membership at a National, even though performance events were being held at the time. The vote was against me and I can never apply again.

I was given the Life Time Achievement award and refused renewal before the next National when my membership accidentally lapsed. I had not even gone to a show. I was never able to know why, unless it was because I saved Peggy Adamson's archives. I did oppose giving Tommie Jones' kennel name, Kai Esa, away to a woman who subsequently left her 3 Dobermans in a cabin in a swamp (yes, I was there and saw it) to slowly die of hunger and thirst, leaving one adult bitch in a crate for weeks, lying in her waste, unable to sit or stand up. Some people on Cyberdobes who I know had not been there resented that. I know they were not there after Tommie died, because her daughter and I WERE there.

This same person also took DPCA membership application checks and cashed them, replacing them with her own worthless ones. I know this because she told me herself. As far as I know she continued her membership after stealing those checks.

I never violated the code of ethics. When I bought the DQ I stopped showing because I felt I would be gifting the judges with free subscriptions, and perhaps interviewing them, and I felt it would be unethical to use people's ad money to show against them. I bred 11 puppies, one a DPCA Grand Prize Futurity winner, another a DPCA Best Puppy. I had contracts and kept my breeding records, charged fair prices. I was a good winner and loser, giving my strongest competition a surprise Best In Show party (and receiving one in turn.) When I sold the DQ, I also gave the buyers cash money to cover the subscriptions I had previously collected money for. ALL my subscriptions covers, and ads were honored.

I worked extremely hard for the DPCA for many years. I did the PipeLine, was the Mailing List chair, was the Educational Review Committee Chair, I ran the Champions of COPE raffle/auction/dinner for 7 years, and donated endlessly to various causes. I researched my own archives all one summer and provided many, many historical photographs to enhance the 1999 DPCA Catalog celebrating 100 years since the first Doberman registered, and was recognized in the catalog.

Yet I have not been allowed that most basic and fundamental American right, habeous corpus .. the right to face my accusers. If there were any.

So why was I not allowed to renew and voted against by this same basic leadership THREE times? Beats me. I have asked... someone else may have better luck asking...

ann

[andyhilt27]

Ann, Is the Doberman Digest linked to Cheri? I had paid my subsrciption months ago. I am sure the payment went through. I sent an email and even called. No response, not one issue was sent to me. I can't help but be curious if this has anything to do with McNealy and friends trying to black ball me. I have had Eva for 3 months now so it must be over six months ago. When will this sh*t stop????? The doberman "club" should not be littered with all this secret society crap they are getting away with! :mad::mad: McNealy and friends: You have my name, home address, email adress, and home phone number. Please feel free to say anything to ME!

[tosca]

Andy, I know you directed your question to Ann, but thought I'd answer. To my knowledge, the Digest is not connected to McNealy - rather, Duane Doll is the publisher. Amy Tourand, Kinetic Dobermans, is the advertising director at the Digest - feel free to ping Amy directly: dobedigest@dmcg.com with your questions or concerns. I'm very confident she'll answer you as soon as possible.

[andyhilt27]

tosca, thank you. and to Doberman digest, I hope this was merely a mix up. No disrepect intended.

[Ann Lanier]

Hi,

As far as I know, too, Cheri has nothing to do with the Doberman Digest.

And no, once Cheri has her teeth in you she seems never to let up... because that would mean she is wrong, and Cheri is never ever wrong... and if she were, she is adept at invention.

a

[Absolute]

Ann,

Read your post up at the top of this thread, I am so sorry for what you went through. I've been there too. If anyone could hate her, I could, but I don’t. I pity her. Maybe that's the worst insult of all, because personally, I would rather have someone hate me than pity me. This woman is a miserable person inside and out. She must be, otherwise why would she generate so much negativity and ugliness? Nobody who has a happy life does what she does. I can’t even imagine what it is like being her. I feel so sorry for her.

My life is anchored by the love and support of good friends and family. I have a successful business and an equal measure of success in the passions I choose to pursue. I count my blessings every day for my wonderful life; we all should. Remember, each of us makes our life what it is. I think we should all be thankful that we aren’t her and don’t have her life. We should pity this woman and pray for her.

When I hear about what this woman has done on CyberDobes I wonder about all the people who have formed opinions of people they don’t even know because of what McNealy has written. How sad for all of us.

[Kalecho]

Ann,

Read your post up at the top of this thread, I am so sorry for what you went through. I've been there too. If anyone could hate her, I could, but I don’t. I pity her. Maybe that's the worst insult of all, because personally, I would rather have someone hate me than pity me. This woman is a miserable person inside and out. She must be, otherwise why would she generate so much negativity and ugliness? Nobody who has a happy life does what she does. I can’t even imagine what it is like being her. I feel so sorry for her.

My life is anchored by the love and support of good friends and family. I have a successful business and an equal measure of success in the passions I choose to pursue. I count my blessings every day for my wonderful life; we all should. Remember, each of us makes our life what it is. I think we should all be thankful that we aren’t her and don’t have her life. We should pity this woman and pray for her.

When I hear about what this woman has done on CyberDobes I wonder about all the people who have formed opinions of people they don’t even know because of what McNealy has written. How sad for all of us.

Thank you for your post, this McNealy person has hurt me too, more than words could express and her followers reinforce and add to her miserable lies, it is so hurtful and horrible, impossible to describe when you know you are being lied about in front of so many people and unable to fight back and defend yourself. One of her favorite things to do is to say that her victims are on her list and able to post anytime they want when in fact they aren't on the list nor able to post to get the truth out. Using the term that they love to use about their victims, they are disgusting. I don't know what kind of human being it takes to do this to others. I count my blessings that I will never know how it feels to be like Cheri Mcnealy.

[Ann Lanier]

Kalecho,

I am very sorry for what you have experienced. By now I think you are probably in good company. It is very sad that Cheri has become so controlling and judgmental of others and that she presents as facts things she believes but which are often untrue.

I have known Cheri for 25 years. She can be fun loving, funny, and friendly. She has a great mind, and wow can she type fast! Cheri used to concentrate on causes; situations she felt she could help make better, and in the past she did a lot of work with her concerns about rescue and health.

But as the years have passed, she seems to have focused very much on correcting people rather than situations, demanding in very hurtful ways that they conform to her 'rules.' Really, it's one thing to smash PETA and a whole 'nother to smash Peter. When she says, "You do what I say, by when I say, or else! Ya got that, mister?" it's a bit much. When she places Kathy Pollock in her very public Hall of Shame when she never met Kathy and has no idea why or how Kathy came to sell April Breeze to Hong Kong, (I do, I was there,) it's a bit much. In Kathy's shoes, maybe Cheri would have done the same and more. IF, that is, she had ever bred a single litter to make decisions about.

The odd thing is that while McNealy is secure posting invectives from behind her monitor, these are things I believe she would never dare to say face to face to any of us. If people were to try to speak with her about this at shows, she would exit quickly.

Cheri supported Marilyn Jordan to get Tommie Jones' Kai Esa retired kennel name. I did not: because I was there. As Tommie's replacement DPCA Membership Secretary Marilyn had actually removed DPCA membership applicants' checks and cashed them, replacing them with her own unfunded checks. The rest of the applications she tossed aside. I know because Marilyn told me herself. I know because I personally collected the DPCA application envelopes from all over Tommie's home. I know because I was in that home for 2 weeks after Tommie died. That was only one of Marilyn Jordan's many sins in Tommie's home. I know because I was there.

But CD judged me wrong and Tommie's daughter wrong without searching out any facts. And there are many more facts. Marilyn got the Kai Esa name un-retired. Then Marilyn left her three dogs to starve to death while she was in jail/rehab. Even when she got out of jail, she did not go home to her dogs. Mary Gay Templeton, DPCA member, wondered why, and went and found and rescued the 3 starving, thirsty Dobermans. One bitch had been in a crate 24/7 for 4-6 weeks, lying in her own filth, unable to stand or sit, starving and dying of thirst. She never fully recovered. Marilyn's champion male 'Slats', Ch Kai Esa II Son of a Sailor, had ingested foreign objects in his hunger and required surgery. Apparently someone was supposed to have fed and watered them, but stopped. The dogs were near death when found. Marilyn Jordan!

The Kai Esa kennel name was dishonored and proponents for the retirement had been treated badly. Jordan has gone, Kai Esa is gone, and a lot of hurt feelings remain. This is another instance where Ms. McNealy wields her influence far too strongly for a cause she seems not to have researched very well.

In other cases Cheri doesn't quite tell the whole truth. She hasn't mentioned has she, that Cheri herself threatened to sue the DPCA for using tracings of her photographs in the PipeLine? She settled for $5,000.00 cash in her pocket from the DPCA for using just the tracings, not even her photographs, in the PipeLine.

Has Cheri mentioned that Eve Auch was the Futurity Chairman when Cheri's friend's dog sired puppies that violated the age limit in the Code of Ethics? Eve was forced by a member of the BoD to disqualify those pups from the Futurity or have a Grievance filed against her, Eve. Could that be why Cheri is so hard on Eve, why Cheri is so opposed to Eve judging WAE's? (Nobody FORCES clubs to ask Eve to judge! The members ASK for her.)

When I bought the Doberman Quarterly I stopped letting Cheri write her column, Ranting With Cheri. Could that have anything to do with Cheri's interest in me?

I think many people have been hurt by this person who assumes the role of judge, jury and hangman but neglects to find out the true facts, and apparently substitutes some of her own as she did with me and April Breeze. It's sad, but difficult to combat. As a target myself, like you and so many others, I can only hope that many others will eventually come to realize the inaccuracies in the accusations which spew forth and disregard them.

It isn't worth the energy to hate Cheri McNealy. There is a fine line between love and hate. So first you have to care enough to hate, and second, it is a supremely pathetic legacy to have spread enough hurt and unhappiness and strife and pain and misery and hate to taint all the good she may have ever done. Her damage to other people's souls is indelible.

We can all go on knowing our own truths..............

................................ and they aren't Cheri McNealy's.

You have to find your own peace.......

Ann Lanier

[Elaine]

Ann,

As always I am stunned by what this McNealy creature has done to people in our breed. Have to disagree on one point you make, I can’t say as I would ever characterize her as having a “great mind.” I think she is more like a Chimpanzee with a razor blade, typing away at near blinding speed, going 90 miles an hour off a cliff. From what I have seen of her reasoning skills (or lack thereof), she is not remotely qualified to be judge and jury on any issue. She has substituted crazed fanatical determination for education, wisdom and experience. In the process, it seems she has hurt a lot of good people and cumulatively been a very divisive force in Dobermans.

I was thinking about the choices we make in life. I think that the poster “Absolute” was alluding to this: we all make choices about how we spend our time and energy. Life is precious, each day is precious, our time and energy are precious. We can choose to focus on being destructive, vindictive, nasty and ugly... and leave a trail of garbage behind us; or, we can take the same set of facts (the same situation) and build something positive and productive, that is inclusive of even our critics. In the grand scheme of things people like McNealy amount to nothing, they are squandering whatever gifts god gave them, leaving behind nothing but the whiff of noxious gas.

[andyhilt27]

Elaine,
Where is this frustration coming from??? McNealy and friends are just people with nothing better to do with their lives. Don't let her bum you out man!:cool:

[Elaine]

Elaine,
Where is this frustration coming from??? McNealy and friends are just people with nothing better to do with their lives. Don't let her bum you out man!:cool:

Can’t say as I have any frustration... rather, I am repulsed. Frankly, I don’t give a rat’s ass about McNealy, she is absolutely nothing in my life and does not enter my horizon ever. But I am my brother's keeper. To the degree I watch and turn away because what she does to others does not directly impact me, I am part of the problem. So, we allow space here for victims of McNealy and CyberDobes to have a forum to defend themselves and their reputations. Many have been attacked for years... it is wrong. These people have a right to speak out about what has gone on... for years, if only so that dear old McNealy is exposed for what she is and what she’s done.

[andyhilt27]

How old is McNealy?

[andyhilt27]

Frankly, I don’t give a rat’s ass about McNealy

That is not setting a very good example for my vocabulary selection.:D

[Elaine]

:cool:Not sure.. I've heard she thawed just after the most recent Ice Age. :D Better answer, she's old enough to know better.

[Ann Lanier]

Hello Absolute,

I am really sorry you have also been subject to attacks. I meant to include you in my post. It is very painful and none of us should have to endure it. Thank you for your concern.

While you feel sad about Cheri though, also remember we all have choices and Cheri does choose to say the hurtful things she does. No matter what her life is, that does not excuse her leading attacks on the human beings with feelings and lives that she destroys.

We ALL have disappointments and problems, family concerns and sometimes heavy responsibilities but we all don't tear and rip at each other. We could, but we don't. For most of us, dogs were supposed to be a pleasure, a fun thing, not a personal war zone. That is the difference.

ann

[Kalecho]

Thank You Ann for your comments, I can tell that what you said is from the heart. I have heard so many wonderful things about you from so many people, you are an asset to our breed.
Yes, I felt that my life was totally destroyed for a long time, and no one would call me to find out the real truth, I felt so alone and isolated and slandered. I don't have the benefit of a lot of family to help and support me through what I went through, and the people that sent Cheri the story, knowing that Cheri would run with it are equally reponsible. What kind of person would do something like this? Cheri held a grudge against me for something that happened over 10 years ago where I felt I was right and she felt that I was wrong. She saw her opportuinity to nail me and went at it like a shark. Some people tried to defend me only to be shot down by Cheri and her friends. Oh well, this happened almost a year and a half ago now and I am much stronger. Especially now that we have this board and people will read and be able to see for themselves what a liar Cheri is. How dare she talk about other people in a bad way like she does? I am all for a class action suit against this witch. Everything is in the archives, I wonder if there's a statute of limitations if everything she's said about others is permanently in the archives for anyone to see?

[Elaine]

I am not big on lawsuits, unless we’re really pushed, :mad: but this got me to thinking... we save our emails, all of them... I have emails from back in 2004-2005 when this McNealy woman and one of her buddies wanted to set up an unlicensed ear cropper... and I have more recent emails from this McNealy woman where she garbles facts about a friend of mine and makes some totally defamatory remarks... (all the while claiming an infallible memory :rolleyes: )... it was about that time that I realized what was true about this McNealy person. My impression is that she is pretty ugly inside... can’t say I can connect to a single meritorious thing about her.

[Athy]

I am all for a class action suit against this witch. Everything is in the archives, I wonder if there's a statute of limitations if everything she's said about others is permanently in the archives for anyone to see?

I am not a lawyer and you should discuss your options with your own attorney. Based on the input from my own attorneys (one in Maryland, one in Virginia,) the statute of limitations regarding defamation varies from state to state. In some states, it is six months, in others, it is a year. However, older postings may be submitted as the sheer volume (and we all know that Cheri is very prolific) may indicate an ongoing pattern. Therefore, it is wise to retain any potentially defamatory posts regardless of their age.

Athy

[Kalecho]

Right, I have everything that she's posted, in my state it is a year, however, she "reminds" people occasionally, which is repeating the defamation all over again. Athy, you should have a very strong case as with you the defamation is continuous. If anyone wants to do this, count me in, I am tired of her games playing with people's lives and reputations.

[pretty dobe]

After joining this group and posting on it, I seem to have been removed from Cyberdobes....... Was removed the day or two after I posted.... It was a couple of days before I realized it.... I'm a happy camper!!!!!!! I now feel clean.... Wonder what I said that was offensive but guess it doesn't take much. Guess I won't be joining those that were supposed to have begged to be allowed back in. That is what she says anyway...

[Elaine]

We have heard that her spiritual twin / good old buddy Sandy Teague sends out something like, "if you post on DSNN you will be a target.” Is that pathetic or what? :D

And, so much for that blatant hypocrisy McNealy spewed all these years about being a fan of “free speech.” She clearly hasn’t a clue what the concept means. For McNealy, it seems that “free speech” meant that she was "free" to attack whomever she chooses to attack. Seems the old gal doesn’t like being held accountable for what she’s done over the years; which in a way is understandable; upon review her conduct stinks. If any of us did what she does, we probably wouldn’t want people to discuss it in public either. The McNealys of the world are like mushrooms, they flourish in manure, in the dark. The world is full of McNealy Mushrooms; like any fungus, they have little lasting impact in the grand scheme of things.

Our challenge is to identify them for what they are, so that we do not allow our opinions to be formed by their ugliness and baloney. I care nothing what-so-ever about a fungi, but I do care that some people go along, in part because – like a car wreck – they are fascinated by the carnage... and in part because - for the moment - it doesn’t effect them.

[andyhilt27]

A target of what???? Will I be even more shunned by the doberman world? Am I target of an assassin? Target of what? Cyberdobes reminds of a caged primate at the zoo.......Rattle the cage and the primate sh*ts in its hand and begins to throw it at you. McNealy, just be sure to wash your hands before you eat!

[Athy]

Right, I have everything that she's posted, in my state it is a year, however, she "reminds" people occasionally, which is repeating the defamation all over again. Athy, you should have a very strong case as with you the defamation is continuous.

And in fact, the ongoing defamation targets more than just me personally. Cheri's "Hall of Shame" on the Cyberdobes website is also defamatory to a large Maryland-based vet clinic as well.

Cheri (and a couple others) would have the general public believe that a veterinarian clinic here in Maryland is purposefully starving only DAR&E foster dogs - apparently at my behest. Huh? Has anyone really stopped to think about how asinine this particular story is? Why would a vet clinic do this? And why didn't the so-called whistleblower who took the photos call animal control? Surely in the face of this purported abuse a call to animal control would have been the right thing to do?

No one called animal control about this purported abuse because the whole thing is a manufactured story that started with a few shelter dogs, one of which absolutely did fail at the kennel over time. Cheri uses a photograph of a shelter dog that didn't thrive in the kennel and she, along with some other very creative writers, turns a very nice vet kennel into an entry in Cyberdobes' "Hall of Shame", telling her readers that DAR&E and the vet clinic are in collusion to purposefully starve these dogs. This fractured fable is indeed defamatory to DAR&E, as well as to the kennel where the dogs were being housed.

There is no doubt that it is a huge challenge to keep kenneled dogs sane, healthy and happy, a challenge that some may face when taking dogs on show circuits. And with some dogs, it is just not possible for them to do well in the kennel - they will lose weight and become highly stressed. While we would all love to be able to put EVERY shelter dog immediately into a foster home, it's just not possible. So DAR&E routes our incoming shelter dogs to several large vet clinics in our area, where the dogs are vetted, altered, brought up to date on vaccinations and treated for any parasites and SAFER tested. Once they're cleaned up and ready to go, we move them into foster homes. It works well for us and our foster parents, who can be minimally assured that the dog they're bringing into their home is free of parasites and disease.

Is it a perfect system? No. Anything involving animals and people isn't. But to portray a vet clinic and a rescue group as purposefully starving and mistreating the dogs kenneled in their facility is just outrageous and irresponsible.

I realize that this entry in the Cyberdobes Hall of Shame is targeted at me personally and that anyone else hurt by it is simply collateral damage in Cheri's eyes. Cheri has been obsessing over me for nearly a decade and I don't use the term "obsessing" lightly. Of course, she has never met me, never spoken to me, never addressed me in any way other than to attack me. Several have accurately noted the behavior: Cheri takes a grain of truth (DAR&E kennels incoming shelters dogs at a large vet clinic) and turns it into a cloth of lies (DAR&E purposefully starves dogs in horrific conditions.)

People need to learn read Cyberdobes with the same level of credibility that you use when you're reading the Star. Sure, the stories are salacious, titillating, scandalous.... but not true.

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Athy