Stalworth Kennels -NO Frauengarten dogs - Page 1

It has recently come to my attention (AGAIN) that a puppy I bred is featured on his own page on the stalworth kennels website. His name is Dieter vom Frauengarten. Apparently if one does a search on my kennel name, the page comes up on the search engines.

Dieter does not now, never has belonged to Stalworth kennels (Canada) ... and never will. He belongs to a woman named Denise in MA, has for over a year. He is not for sale and never will be. He is not standing at stud, and to the best of our knowledge he is not sneaking out of the house and running up to Canada to moonlight after Denise goes to bed at night.

I have asked th owner of the site to remove the page with Dieter on it more than once, but so far that has not happened.

I have no affiliation with that kennel, never met the owners in person.

My puppy/dog sales contract specifically states that if a buyer can no longer keep their Frauengarten dog for any reason, I have first right of refusal and will either take/buy the dog back or assist in re-homing the dog. If somebody wants a Frauengarten dog, they pretty much have to come to me. That's my responsibility as a breeder and a lover of the breed.

I do wish people would stop doing stuff like this.

Shelley Strohl

Shelley, A couple of suggestions if I may. 

1. Post the above information on Dieter's page so if someone comes looking for his pedigree from their site they can easily spot the fraud.

2. On their page with Dieter they show these Registration numbers Dual registered; CKC #1098172, AKC #DN18638006  If in fact that is his AKC number I would first contact the CKC and ask for the fraud department and then contact AKC and again ask for fraud and see if they have been registering any dogs using that number. If not his number perhaps they will id the dog ( I think you can actually look up the AKC one yourself) which could expose other elements or victims of the fraud.

3. I would contact their ISP w/ your proof and demand THEY take down the page as I'm sure it will be a violation of their rules. Check whois.net

4. I would contact the Ottawa Police or RCMP and lodge a complaint because they have to be getting some economic benefit from using his name, picture and pedigree which most likely means they are selling some other dogs using his information.

5. On their home page they list a number of handlers with the Edmonton police department that have their dogs. Might be worth the cost of a phone call to them also. I would think they would have to wonder what's going on also.

Here is the whois info    Domain name: stalworthkennels.com
Administrative Contact:
   Melanie Woolley (GG5H6) mwoolley@heartofoakfarm.com
   Heart of Oak Farm    18 285 Pine Ridge Rd
   Apple Hill,    ON    K0C 1B0    Canada
   Phone: +1 (613) 537-4440
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Registrar: NAMES4EVER, http://www.names4ever.com

Hmmmm Wonder if she'll be attending the Canadian Sieger Show this year?  

She took the page down yesterday. I suspect Dieter's owner laid into her pretty good on the phone. She was LIVID. (she's a detective herself in MA) Thanks for the help. Hopefully this won't happen again for awhile.

Might be worth a contact to the CKC to see if any dogs are registered as being sired by Dieter, even though he was only a puppy yet when he came back here. I have heard some pretty horrible stories about
"some people.." breeding other people's dogs without permission since I posted this thread.

Thanks all,

SS

Ugh, I'd be furious, too. I have a related situation myself that is not yet resolved. Glad to hear she took him off her site.