Just look up 43 dog seizure by well known dog handler in the CKC. His name is listed on a few facebook sites/Reddit/and other places on the internet. If you can't find it, PM me. Everyone in the dog community for shows all know and his job showing dogs / looking after dogs is done. As far as I am concerned, who gives a shit, how can you starve, living in crates for years, have dogs living in feces and urine with their hair matted in feces, urine scalding, terribly underweight as they were not fed, rotten teeth and open sores. It is all written in reports by the rescue officers. None were housebroken - even the mature dogs (it took him 3 days to relax enough to mark outside, learn that that door means I have to go out - and hasn't had a mistake in a week. He never had to use his brain, he was just a beautiful purebred dog used for breeding so this piece of shit could sell the puppies through a proxy (I assume as he did not sell dogs that anyone knows of, but why would you have 43 non-neutered dogs (all purebred and in particular this breed is considered rare).
I was wrong in my original post as I have been given as much information as they are allowed, as I called the SPCA, RCMP, and the Gov't since seeing the psychological damage it has done to an innocent dog. The breed is 40-65 lbs (male), and when they rescued him he was in his 20's. He just hit 40 lbs, and is being fed 5 cups of puppy food so he is strong enough, walks, putting on muscle, and not skin and bones - so he can be fixed. That is a ridiculous amount of calories for a small dog, but he is still underweight. They would not foster to adopt a dog until they gained enough weight and were healthy enough. Teeth pulled, sores cleaned and healed, but the psychological damage is lasting. He is one of the heavier dogs with no serious sores.
My buddy is a kind, would never show a tooth, now lets us clip his nails, and brush his hair, but any strange noise and he is very timid, does not trust people and takes a long time to warm up. I gave him a week to settle in - he was so worried if we would leave or something would happen he would not lay down, he would fall asleep standing up, and catch himself as he fell until 4-5 hours later he would lay down for a few minutes and sleep.
Any decent fucking human being would do their best to help rehabilitate if they knew how.
He now trusts us both, and comes to us for scratches, petting, and affection, he is learning basic commands to wait at the door until I go out and follow, is learning to play fetch, and likes toys, I train his for 10 minutes twice a day (after the first week), when he is hungry as dogs like to work for their food, it is natural for them. He is damaged and loses his mind in a crate (for his own safety) when we both have to leave. He tries so hard to get out ramming his head between the metal bars he rubbed all the hair off the top of his nose and it is turning red. I video tape my dogs when I am not home so I can determine when they can be trusted. He just has to figure out this is here forever home and I don't give up on animals. Considering his first 5 years of life, dogs move forward fast but this is the slowest I have ever experienced working with an abused or aggressive dog I take in to my house before they go back to their forever home.
The bizarre part of all of this is there is an investigation, but it is completely f'ed. The RCMP are not involved at all once they showed up and determined the smell was not a rotting human body. It is the Gov't - department of agriculture. How can he not be charged yet as it is well over a month? Not even a charge and then a court date. Just an investigation.
Anyway, better stop writing - this stuff makes me beyond angry.
