On Tuesday, January 2, 2018, Jennifer Choate was arrested and charged with 22 counts of Cruelty To Animals for allegedly neglecting dogs. Police arrived at the property she rents with a search warrant to find 22 German Shepherds locked in a barn in Negative 11 degree temperatures.
Dozens of Dead Puppies
The 22 German Shepherds were taken to the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Stratham (NHSPCA) where they joined 9 other German Shepherd Dogs. Those 9 dogs were survivors from a fire they survived in December 2017 in Bristol. According to WMUR 9 News, in that fire, 27 German Shepherds were killed, and most of those were puppies which were just weeks old.
According to the Union Leader, the December fire occurred just 3 weeks after a November fire, where 9 other German Shepherd Dogs were killed. At that point, Jennifer Choate had been charged with Animal Cruelty as well.
That’s 36 dead German Shepherds.
Even MORE dead puppies at Tarawood Kennels
News reports state that Jennifer Choate also goes by “Bobbi Jo” and operates under the name Tarawood Kennels from Halifax, Massachusetts.
A quick search shows that in March 2017, Tarawood Kennels in Halifax was quarantined by the Massachusets Department of Agricultural Resources after parvovirus infected more than a dozen German Sheperd Dogs.
In that case, 2 adult German Shepherds died and 8 more puppies died.
An article on Wicked Local states that the “breeder” allowed people to visit the puppies frequently, which is how Parvo is transmitted.
The Body Count
That’s 46 dead dogs and 22 – 31 at the SPCA. Are there more? The Union Leader says there are also Pomeranians in the “breeding program” and horses on the property as well.
Have you heard about this?
According to news articles, several neighbors had filed complaints due to barking and notified authorities on multiple occasions. If you have any insight, feel free to comment below.
Worst dog owner of the year award
I’ll take one male already fixed if they will let me. He must be good with other dogs.
Hopefully with this big story and the woman with the Great Danes from Wolfboro NH the law makers will get their heads out of their asses and crack down on breeding!! Make more laws and rules so this doesn’t happen!!
Hopefully with this big story and the woman with the Great Danes from Wolfboro NH the law makers will get their heads out of their asses and crack down on breeding!! Make more laws and rules so this doesn’t happen!!
They’d all be dead with tonight’s wind chills of -30. It’s a record brreaking month for cold temperatures.
I thought I’d done all the right research to get the last dog I’ll ever own – this woman is a liar to beat all liars.
My heart is broken – I had to put my dog down today because his temprement finally got too bad to control.
Not only did my vet say he was inbred (extra toe and both hips already going bad at 1 yo) but both the trainer and the vet said his temprement was off.
He was a good dog but his whole life was like he had ADD and was on crack. He couldn’t settle and there was no such thing as enough exercise. After 6 years of waiting for him to calm down, I finally had to have him put to sleep due to him developing a neurological condition.
If this woman is still in business, do NOT buy a GSD from her. She promises her breeders are DNA tested and the pups are xrayed for hips.