Here is the cutting from
the Daily Mail 5th September 2001
One of the men has devoted
his life to dogs as his younger partner. I cannot believe this outrage.
Have a look at their website they have a beautiful kennels. I do
not believe a word of the evidence especially having heard the other
side of the story.
I have visited hundreds of
kennels and this is a super one...see for yourself.
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The Vanitonia Kennel
was founded by Roger Stone (left and the late Graham Thompson 38
years ago, and is now co-owned with Lee Cox (right)
They have achieved remarkable
success in Poodles, especially in Standards and Toys in both of
which their dogs have had an enormous impact.
They have produces almost
50 Champions and their latest CC and BOB win was recently as Welsh
Kennel Club with a standard. They have owned a number of breeds,
and in recent years have won well with Chinese Cresteds, taking
BOB and group2 at Crufts this year. They have also helped with rescuing
poodles.
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FORMER CRUFTS JUDGE WAS CRUEL TO SPANIEL
Two
renowned breeders, one a former Crufts judge, have been found guilty of
animal cruelty.
Roger
Stone and Lee Cox run a show kennels boasting 48 British champions and
more than 250 winners worldwide, a court heard.
But
they kept a ten-year-old cocker spaniel called Adam in appalling conditions
that led to serious health problems,
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must be nonsense as the environmental health officers from the council
had granted a licence for the premises, and the license for a boarding
kennels is severely inspected by qualified people...not as the RSPCA
call their operatives who have 6 weeks training!! |
The
retired stud dog was found by the RSPCA with a chronically infected ear
that resulted in the animal having its inner ear surgically removed.
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removed....that may well be.... but did anyone other than the RSPCA
employees or vets used by them, see the ear before this operation
was done? I think not!! And on whose evidence is it said that there
was an untreated lice infestation?(below) (The RSPCA have been shown
to be serial liars to get a conviction...follow the links on the index
page to read why I say this) |
The
animal was also suffering from an untreated lice infestation.
Magistrates
at Bridgewater, Somerset, were told that when the RSPCA "inspector"
Jo Daniels arrived to inspect the Kaston Kennels last October many dogs
appeared bald and scabby and there ws a strong smell of urine and faeces.
Liz
Jones, who was a cleaner at the kennels, told the court that she alerted
the RSPCA after becoming sickened by the "disgusting" state
of the premises. Whose fault was that then ?
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this cleaner person was "sickened" by the "disgusting"
state of the premises...what is she saying. She was apparently employed
and presumably paid to be a cleaner.. Why then did she not clean them?
Why did the RSPCA not prosecute her. She must have known about any
ear infection.....why didn't SHE get it treated. Why didn't she mention
it to the vet who was in regular attandance at the kennels. Why didn't
she take the dog to the vet. Her responsibility was the very knowledge
of the infected ear...was she granted immunity from prosecution if
she would "rat" on her two bosses?? |
Cox
29, agreed that he did not take the spaniel to the vet and had treated
the dog's ear condition with medication prescribed for another animal.
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a kennel owner obviously having down to earth common sense would say
to himself the signs and symptoms are the same as those of dog "A"
so the dog l in question will obviously be improved with the medication
prescribed for dog "A" Its only the RSPCA who waste money
by doing jobs that already the subject of FREE attention by using
the police and CPS!! They waste money donated for the animals doing
a superfluous prosecution which the designated authorities are quite
capable of doing. |
Stone
62 claimed that he had not seen the spaniel for five months because "his
poor health had kept him indoors"
Stone
and Cox were found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to the spaniel.
They denied the charge.
Magistrates
gave them three year conditional discharge and ordered them to pay £5,000
costs to the RSPCA.
Stone
is a former Crufts judge while Cox who became a show judge when he was
thirteen, is an internationally-known groomer. Both men were co-odinators
for South West Poodle Rescue.
Kaston
Kennels, in Mark, Somerset, is part of what their internet website describes
as the "world fmous" Vanitonia show kennels.
After
the case Stone said: We have nothing to say about the verdict, but we
will continue keeping the dogs"
RSPCA
"inspector" Jo Daniel said "To find a dog in Adam's condition
in a normal house wold have been bad enough, but to find one in the care
of two internationally renowned breeders was shock"
king"/cutting
ends.
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http://www.vanitonia.co.uk/boardingkennels.htm
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Our comment
I do not know the gentlemen
concerned except by reputation...which is good. For years I have
seen their beautiful Vanitonia poodles.
I am horrified that
magistrates can be so outrageously ignorant.
Look at the above text
it will no doubt be better if I put my comments in to fill the obvious
holes in the case made by the RSPCA!
Unfortunately Mr Stone
was not familiar with the lack of powers of the RSPCA
and handed the spaniel
over to them.I believe he is quite simply in the words of Chris
Patten gob-smacked that the RSPCA could behave like they did.
I understand Mr Stone
will be writing his account of the incident which we will be pleased
to publish as will the innumerable anti RSPCA sites proliferating
on the internet.
Mr Stone and Mr Cox
must be really dedicated to their dogs I know from personal experience
that poodles coats take a lot of hard work to be kept in the beautiful
condition Vanitonia obviously achieve.
Roger Stone looks like
a gentleman who enthusiastically greets life and is soft with the
animals and Lee Cox looks like a person who is very kind to his
animals.
Roger Stone has had
a bad time with illness. Are all those miriad years of dedication
wiped out by the vindictiveness of one cleaner and one equally vindictive
RSPCA woman? Its a bad day when such people who have given their
lives to dogs are treated in this manner. One another page I shall
be listing the ambulance chasing of the RSPCA..let's just have a
good look at the number of people they hear are ill and then focus
on as a legitimate target!
Roger seems not to want
to go to appeal...one can understand the shock of the behaviour
of the RSPCA added to his poor state of health would have this effect...what
a pity this is how the RSPCA win lots of cases..its not their life,
their money, their health, and their home under threat.
Wing Commander Affie
had to sell his home to defend himself...He won on appeal The damages
will be substantial....Watch this space Vanitonia!!
One single lady told
me that when she also another very famous kennel that the RSPCA
told her "We'll have your house off you!" with great glee.
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