Ripoff Report Needs Your Help!
X  |  CLOSE
Report: #288149

Complaint Review: ISSR/SSDCA Shiloh Sheperd Club - American Rare Breed America - Nationwide

  • Submitted:
  • Updated:
  • Reported By: Fillmore New York
  • Author Confirmed What's this?
  • Why?
  • ISSR/SSDCA Shiloh Sheperd Club - American Rare Breed America 9921 Frank Tippett Road, Cheltenham, Maryland 20623 Nationwide U.S.A.

American Rare Breed America - ARBA And Robert Slack Dog Breed Show organization "ARBA" decieves public of true Shiloh Sheperd dog breed standard as set forth in Shiloh founders standard f. Cheltenham maryland

Show customers why they should trust your business over your competitors...

Is this
Report about YOU
listed on other sites?
Those sites steal
Ripoff Report's
content.
We can get those
removed for you!
Find out more here.
How to fix
Ripoff Report
If your business is
willing to make a
commitment to
customer satisfaction
Click here now..

When ARBA first came on the scene providing rare breed clubs with a show venue that could be utilized in order to select the best specimens within their respective breeds, just as the AKC does within their recognized breeds, ARBA was helping many small groups to set proper type within their limited gene pools. After Anita left the organization, the Slack brothers (John and Robert) started making up their own rules, and things started to fall apart.

The shows kept decreasing in size and many breeds chose to seek AKC recognition in order to attain the kind of credibility that ARBA could no longer provide.

Unfortunately, other groups that were seeking recognition for their designer/unpapered mixes jumped in to fill the gap! Obviously ARBA was no longer interested in breed improvement,***
because they would allow anyone *****
that claimed to be a "registry" to issue papers, enter their dogs and attain titles!

In the case of the Shiloh Shepherd, things started to deteriorate to such a low, that I ended up going to some of their shows just to take pictures and write my reports!

By the spring of 2007, I felt that this travesty had gone on long enough! After several failed attempts to resolve the problem, in April I published an open letter.

Many emails and phone calls ensued, resulting in my second attempt, on June 12, 20007, to state our position in even more detail.
Please double-click on the letter to view it in its entirety.

*Mr. Slack joined our forum and hopefully read the 91 posts that were presented to him by our members, but obviously he chose to ignore our pleas! After the Empire Classic Show a huge brouhaha erupted via the sliver camp and ARBA refused to make the separation between real ISSR Shiloh Shepherd versus Fake Shilohs permanent.

In July I published a full report regarding the Empire Classic! This was later revised into my newest article.

At that point, I had no choice but to request that ARBA remove my Breed Standard (thus removing showing privileges for All dogs claiming to be "Shilohs") from their show venue!
On August 9, 2007, our attorney sent this letter to ARBA.
Robert responded with...

The following shows the proposed ARBA standard. The words in purple are from The Shiloh Shepherd Breed Standard, written and copyrighted by Tina M. Barber*, the Shiloh Shepherd Breed Founder. Words in brown are original to ARBA. Words in brackets are in the Shiloh Shepherd Breed Standard as copyrighted by Tina M. Barber but were omitted in the ARBA description.


After several calls back and forth with Robert still trying to negotiate HIS terms, we were forced to move forward with a new attorney that resides near DC and was capable of taking this matter all the way to Federal Court.


This finally resulted in ARBA's complete removal of our Breed Standard from their site!

At this point they are still listing MY name (Shiloh)

but without the standard. **********

Obviously they are still trying to come up with something generic that won't violate my copyright but will allow the various fake registries to enter their GSDS mixes.

Of course, if they accept any entries that claim to be "Shilohs" at any of their show venues, we fully intend on pursuing any and all civil remedies and/or criminal sanctions available.

Furthermore, I have already started a new "Breed Development" series that will be published on the Dogwise site as well as being presented in various forms on a variety of sites in order to fully expose the damage that ARBA, and others like them, are doing to many wonderful breeds! I also am working on a new series that will expose these "rare breed" show organizations, like ARBA, for what they really are.

Buyer Beware-the facts listed below are being presented in an attempt to *************warn the public regarding the fraudulent scams********* they could encounter while investigating the Shiloh Shepherd.

"The Shiloh Shepherd was carefully selected, LMX data was documented for nearly 2 decades (while still at my kennel) so that ONLY the best dogs (call it survival of the fittest if you want to) would continue to expand the genepool!! Don't forget -- my lines go back to 1962!! I had consulted the top breeders of their day -- experts that were respected by their peers, and are still honored to this day!! I didn't just put 2 dogs together & "had pups" -- any fool can do that!! Extremely strict data was maintained -- I provided homecomings for my puppy people, and free training classes so that I could see the fruits of my labor!! If I saw a problem starting to surface, I eliminated that LINE from my breeding program -- I gave dozens of dogs away (free to good homes) because I didn't feel that they would be able to make a *positive* contribution to my goal!!"


YET ... Now those same types of dogs are being bred by people that have no solid experience in the art of dog breeding, and they are calling them by MY name!!!! & ARBA expects me to embrace them into our fold??

My Licensed Breeders have shown extreme dedication to the future welfare of this breed -- just read the posts on this forum -- they have done the RIGHT thing, but I should reward them by allowing any GSD mix - or even former ISSR pet quality dogs inbred to each other, to share the ring with the progeny produced via the strict ISSR rules???
Confused NOT IN *THIS* LIFETIME!!!

How can ARBA even suggest such a travesty??? When I joined ARBA 15 years ago I was assured that my dogs would be judged honestly - against each other --- not against other breeds/mixes/etc. that insist on "pretending" to be Shilohs!!!
Yet in the late 90's ARBA started to register litters -- inbred, hybrid, you name it ... I have the proof of what was being accepted!!

This report shall be edited for more information regarding the ARBA organization.

Shiloh Shepherd is a trademark of the International Shiloh Shepherd Registry. The Shiloh Shepherd Dog Club of America is a non-profit organization.

SSDCA/ISSR Shiloh Sheperd Club
Fillmore, New York
U.S.A.

This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 11/30/2007 11:16 PM and is a permanent record located here: https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/issrssdca-shiloh-sheperd-club-american-rare-breed-america/nationwide/american-rare-breed-america-arba-and-robert-slack-dog-breed-show-organization-arba-dec-288149. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. Arizona does not observe daylight savings so the post time may be Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year. Ripoff Report has an exclusive license to this report. It may not be copied without the written permission of Ripoff Report. READ: Foreign websites steal our content

Search for additional reports

If you would like to see more Rip-off Reports on this company/individual, search here:

Report & Rebuttal
Respond to this report!
What's this?
Also a victim?
What's this?
Repair Your Reputation!
What's this?
Featured Reports

Advertisers above have met our
strict standards for business conduct.

X
What do hackers,
questionable attorneys and
fake court orders have in common?
...Dishonest Reputation Management Investigates Reputation Repair
Free speech rights compromised

WATCH News
Segment Now