Red Barn Kennel, Fred And Sharon Loney puppy mill= sick puppy Chariton Iowa

Speedracer says I'm a puppy mill! It took her over 5 months to decide I

was a puppymill. And her statements regarding her justification are false.

She picked up her puppy here at our place. Everything was clean when she was here. She was in direct contact with our office which is in our house.
And she seen the nursing mother's outdoor exercise area. These are the only areas she was exposed to. I do not believe she smelled urine when she walked through the door. If in fact she did, it was due to a 'puppy accident' which is always cleaned up as soon as its spotted. Just as would happen at anyone's house that has a young puppy trotting around.

We did not show her where most of the adult dogs are kept outside. Had she asked, we would have shared. We are very proud of the roomy and comfortable facilities for our dogs. The only area she seen was the smaller turnout area where we let the current mamma dogs and babies go outside to potty.
They do not live in this area. The area is sealed concrete so we can easily sanitize it between letting the different dogs out - alleviating each litter from being subject to another litter's waste. This area used to be grass until we upgraded to pea gravel and could eventually afford the concrete we have today. Concrete allows for better sanitizing so we could clean and get
rid of the germs.

There aren't any dogs that 'live' in this area. The
panels are up so that each mother/litter can be kept separate so that no one gets hurt and each have time outside.

Are nursery, which is inside, is scrubbed daily with hot water and sanitizers. She never seen this area. The nursery kennels are all very roomy, the building has heat and central air. We don't use papers for our Dogs/puppies. They all have rugs and blankets that they sleep on. The puppies all have plenty of toys to play with as well. All soft items such as blankets, rugs and stuffed animals are washed in the washer that is housed in the nursery as well.

The story about the puppies mom being tired and her nipples hanging down really far is absurd. None of our boxers are tired or over breed. We do not breed every time a boxer comes in heat. Our female dogs are at least 2 years of age before being breed the first time and retired between the ages of 5-7. We get one litter per year from our females. That makes 3-5 litters at most per female. The average is 2 to 3 litters per female. None of our boxer's have ever been breed every time they come in heat. They may give us one litter per year and by the time they are 5 to 7 years old, we retire them so they can have their own time with a family. Sometimes females are only are breed once. We often decide that its not in the mother's best interest to be breed again - Boxer's milk commonly goes bad which is unhealthy for their pups. Or the mother may not have fared well with the pregnancy - similar to people. We don't cause undo hardship on our dogs if we know its not good for them.

We had contact with this person through e-mails three times within the first
5 months of her taking her puppy home. Every thing was always communicated that things were good and fine with the puppy. When I sell a puppy they are given a year guarantee and a form for their vet to fill out, stating if any thing is found wrong with the puppy. We ask for the form to be completed within the first 72 hours. We never received the form back from her. If there was the problems she claims, the vet should have discovered this the first 72 hours and she should have been sharing with us. Our vet did an exam on this puppy before leaving us.

Out of the blue, over 5 months after she received this puppy from us, she sent me an e-mail telling me how horrible we were and that we must be a puppy mill as her boxer had some parasite. As long as she had the puppy, it was quite possible that the parasite was contracted from somewhere else. She was very rude and accusational. All communications up to this point she had nothing but nice positive things to say about us, her visit and the puppy. I did contact other puppy owners from that litter and no one else was having problems that she is now stating she has.

I have been selling Boxers since 1999 and this is the first real problems I have had like this. I won't say there have not been small problems or misunderstandings, but most people that have a problem with their boxers contact me in a normal matter, usually over the phone, and we try to get things worked out. If she would have contacted me when she first found out her puppy had a problem and would of been civil about it we would probably have these taken care

of. Why is it that when something bad is wrong with their puppy the

breeder all of a sudden becomes a puppy mill and they start saying

things that are not true. I still do not know what she wants me to do

beside quit breeding.

I have two vets that will tell you we are one of the best breeders around.
Our puppies are checked by a vet before they leave here, if there are any problems with them the family adopting them are told. I have never sold a puppy knowing there is a problem and not tell the family getting the puppy.

My USDA inspector would use our kennel when he would show some one a kennel and he needed it to be clean. He knew he could always come here and not find a week or month worth of poo. He knew we cleaned daily. The state has also been here, we are licensed with the state of Iowa. The state inspectors also know how clean we keep things around here. In addition, AKC makes their frequent visits and has nothing but good comments about our facility and how we take care of our dogs.

As for her dog having giardia from her mother drinking dirty water is

another of those ideas that are not true. She says her puppy had

giardia from the time she left here and still had it in November, if that is the case either she is not telling the truth or she is not treating her correctly for the giardia.

How does she know we are inhumane and unjust. I have several vets and
customers that will disagree with her on that point. Our dogs are our life, this is a 24 x 7 job. This is not a hobby to be taken lightly. We retired to raise dogs that takes all of our time. We take great offense being told that we don't take proper care of our dogs. We research and study a lot to keep up on everything we need to provide the best for our dogs.

If she does not what to take this off the rip off report, I may decide to sue her for slander.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE!  We got our boxer from the Loney's August 9, 2008, she was already 4 months old, but due to us moving into a house we had to postpone the time we got her.  It has been nothing but trouble since.  She constantly has vaginitis.  They did spay her, but now we're learning, we probably should have waited until after she had her frist "heat" before we had her spayed. 

She has numerous gastro issues and can only be on one food, Iams intestinal formula low residue.  Any other food makes her sick and her stool is horribly soft and runny and she becomes lethargic.  We haven't done a colonoscopy since the food seems to have fixed the issue but the vet assumes it is IBS.

We already know she has a HORRIBLE immune system and can't fight the smallest illnesses.  Besides the vaginitis, she has yeast that builds up and grows between her toes on her paws and in the pads of her feet.  She had little bloody cysts that we had to have biopsied to find this out.  Keeping her on a strict diet and giving her pet tab vitamins has helped boost her immune system, but any time she's around other dogs, she contracts something else. 

We took her to the vet today and he notice that she doesn't sit right.  I've noticed lately that she doesn't put her full weight on her back legs and she has never sat "right" or for very long.  The vet is pretty sure she has hip dysplasia or some other hip disorder.  I seriously think our vet pitties us b/c he has graciously offered to do the xrays on her hips and lower backs for free.  Either way, the vet is pretty sure that eventually she just won't be able to walk. 

When she started having all these health issues, I tried contacting the Loney's.  It was useless.  Since iowa is a puppy mill state, their butts are covered.  They don't owe us anything.  Once I finally got a hold of sharon loney she offered to take the dog back but under no circumstances offered to give us our money back.  We asked for our money back, but she  said the only thing she could do is take the dog back and give us a new one.  Under NO circumstances would I ever in my life return a dog back to that horrible woman.  I know in my heart, they would only take her to the back and shoot her.  No dog should have to go through all this testing and medication and feeling sick all the time at such a young age as well as we're to the point where we can't afford all her health issues. 

Getting a puppy should be such a happy and joyus occassion.  This dog has the best personality and is such fun to be around.  As the vet said "she's got brains and heart and crap for a body". 

It is slightly comforting to know that we aren't alone in this.  But....NO ONE should have to go through this with a dog let alone a puppy.