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Club News
More on Hunte/AKC Alliance, Really Bothersome Details...
The self confessed born-again x-heroin addict and dual citizenship dog dealer from Barbados, Andrew Hunte is credited with owning the "state of the art facility" along a quiet stretch of HWY in SW Missouri. Interestingly financed with $4.4M USDA rural development loan guarantees.
Although he was supposed to have put in a crematorium to dispose of deads last year, he hasn't. After telling the state conservation people, he would, when they say he exceeded the pounds per pond limit of dead puppies, he didn't. (which puppies were they and where's their papers?) Living but "B" grade pups not good enough for the pet store trade are trucked to Texas by another for sale at a Flea Market.
This is the same guy AKC has chosen as a possible savior, "registrations" speaking of course. Although his advertised 1500 attendee breeder seminars are seldom any more than 400 actual people, including many family couples w/ kids, the pre-seminar press releases credit him with three times as many attendees.
The Sept '03 meeting saw Gladstone (AKC Board) get up and congratulate Hunte and those breeders supplying him with pups for the work they were doing. Hunte got up and announced the promotion to VP Breeder Support of another famous person among the controversial Midwest breeders. The former president of DoBoTri kennels, a Purdey, Mo dealership, Doug Hughes.
Years earlier "DoBoTri" employee was CONVICTED of cruelty after the driver was arrested in PA delivering pups. That cruelty CONVICTION should have resulted in an AKC suspension? of the dealer, but nothing happened. In may 2000 a DoBoTri truckload of pups was seized in Nashville. After surrendering $40K worth of pups to locals in lieu of arresting the co-drivers for cruelty, the USDA got involved. CONVICTED again, this time pursuant to the federal Animal Welfare Act.
It was one of the biggest dog stories of 2000. In the news and on the web, public info! Second CONVICTION and still NO AKC SUSPENSION!!! It happened right after the much ballyhooed, don't hit me again April '00 Dateline piece that was supposed to be about the lack of integrity of AKC's registry.
(The award winning NBC flop was pre-empted by a diffusing quotation from that leading journalistic product? DogNews: "The perception that a dog and/or litter registered with the American Kennel Club is a guarantee with regard to parentage and/or breeding reliability is a myth. This perception has been perpetuated throughout AMERICA by AKC specifically and the general public generally.")
Not so public was that DoBoTri kennel's USDA dealer permit was revoked and Hughes was put on "a period of probation thru '06." Conditions of probation were that he not be in a supervisor position, manager, director etc of any lic'ed dealer (he could work as an employee). To do so would violate the probation and impose additional and immediate $10K fine w/o further hearing.
Hunte bought DoBoTri and immediately put its pres in charge of and titled Director Breeder Support where he was routinely making financial decisions that impacted the business and guaranteed Hunte's ability to pay installments on the DoBoTri purchase. Direct violation of the signed Consent Decision with USDA and the written conditions of Probation.
Hunte's Sept '03 seminar, with Gladstone and the USDA dep. admin. present at the Joplin motel convention center, Hunte publicly announced to about 400 that Doug Hughes was being promoted to company Vice President of Breeder Support. It was also published in several Midwest news papers and Hunte's newsletter.
USDA Adm's Gipson, subsequently said he didn't know anything about it but would check. Eight+ months later USDA said their investigation was over. Not enough evidence to show violation...?
In the mean time Hunte gave Hughes $10K and a new p/u truck to travel around "supporting breeders" and there is, I'm told, a USDA training facility being/or to be built in KC, MO with Chester Gipson's name on it. Something to bring the regulators and the breeders together?
Since Hunte sold minor ownership to Hagen, which is handling management, Hunte has turned Doug Hughes into a sort of corporate trainer. He gets $50 hr driving to and fro breeders and $100+ hr once he gets there, according to his father, who says he's making more than when he was a VP! There are so many places that need his advice!!! Our tax dollars at work...?
Scott McNeal scotmcneal525@msn.com
