My cousin in Missouri is one of the individuals who adopted one of Ms. Thomas' dogs. When he went to the site he reported that the dogs were running freely, some of them, others were in pens without food or water. It was a sad situation. He also said the dogs looked thin and were not attended to. There was only one person there. and the dogs were barking for attention.
He knows Ms. Thomas personally and it was she who asked him to go and adopt one of the dogs because he had previously contacted her about buying one of her well bred stock dogs for his cattle but they had not yet consummated the deal. Naturally, he jumped at it. He was, as I explained previously, aghast at the situation. He had seen Ms. Thomas' operation, and although Ms. Thomas lives way out in the "boonies" as he says, she keeps her pens clean and takes good care of her dogs.
Now, as I understand there is a conflict going on between Ironhorse and Ms. Thomas over some money owed and some dogs death. I guess Ironhorse wants to be paid for some puppies being sold since he owns the website and won't give back some camera of Ms. Thomas'. But, it seems to me if Ironhorse owns the website that Ms. Thomas' was selling puppies on, isn't he brokering puppies? Just seems like Ms. Thomas is being criticized so much for doing so much wrong, what about him?
My cousin also said maybe since all this happened when Ms. Thomas was so sick that she was taken advantage of and wasn't able to make the right decisions at the time. He knows she had no family or friends in the area and she had moved away and was "hiding" from an abusive ex-husband. It seems to me someone should have offered to help Miss Thomas instead of just helping the dogs.