Backyard Breeding Nightmare

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]Today we are going to talk about the worst case of backyard breeding that I have ever personally been involved with.

[00:00:06]I'm just going to raise awareness for a lot of different controversial topics.

[00:00:09]Okay, so we're just going to jump right into the story. This is going to blow your guys' mind just how crazy this gets. Okay, so Wednesday evening I was contacted by Grundy County Animal Control to help them catch a dog that had been loose for I believe a few days at this point. um it had been running around a field and Grande will often ask me to help them catch certain cases or help them with behavioral rehab dogs. So I went to try to capture this dog. So I found him rather quickly with the help of some neighbors who pointed me in the direction that he had been um hanging out at and me and one of the locals went and uh found him rather quickly.

[00:00:52]Hi handsome boy. What are you doing? We got out of our car and he was kind of investigating our car and hoping that I would be able to loop a leash around him quickly. Um, a truck pulled up. The guy had gotten out of his truck and was coming up on me rather quickly. And I was like, hey, you know, slow down.

[00:01:08]You're going to scare the dog. We're trying to catch this dog. And he goes, "No, I know that dog." And I'm kind of like, h, okay, that's weird. So, I just I didn't really say anything. And he whistled to the dog. And the dog had like a big demeanor shift. Um, it went from being petrified to like [snorts] tail wagging. Ran up to the guy, was whining. Um, like, you know, submissive, low to the ground, whining, wagging its tail, licking the guy's face, >> buddy. Okay, great. Like, this is your dog. And he's like, "No, I rehomed this dog as a puppy to somebody on Facebook."

[00:01:40]And he immediately gets in this defensive mode and he's like, "I'm going to kill that mother. I'm going to kill him. I'm going to find him on Facebook."

[00:01:48]And I'm like, "Oh, okay. Well, we need to get this dog off the the road." And he immediately goes, "Do you have somewhere to put the dog?" And I'm like I'm like thinking this guy's going to take this dog home with him. And I'm like, "Yeah, I can take the dog." And he's like, "I can't take the dog. We have a bunch of dogs at home. I can't take the dog. My my wife will kill me."

[00:02:09]I asked him for his name and his number, which he did give me. And I'm like, "Please let me know who you rehome this dog to so we can uh look more into it and I can give Grundy this information."

[00:02:19]And these were the text messages that he had sent me the following day. I was personally really curious because he had said that the litter was his accidental litter, what the parents were. So, I had him send me photos of the parents and he mentioned the guy's name that he had rehomed the puppy to. And these were the photos that he sent me of the parents.

[00:02:37]And also, just notice that he mentions the dad passed 5 months ago.

[00:02:40]>> It's late. Okay, Grundy County Animal Control is closed. They ask if I can house the dog at my facility. I am a dog trainer. I also rehab a bunch of behavioral cases. I foster dogs. Um, so we have a facility that we board dogs at and I say, "Yeah, he can come to the facility tonight. [snorts] Uh, we will bring him to Grundy in the morning." I am thinking [sighs and snorts] I'm not thinking this dog's going to be that difficult to get into a kennel run.

[00:03:04]I'm like, "All right, I can't get him out of the crate of my car. He's barking at me. I can't get a leash on him in the crate. Like, he's trying to bite my hand. So, and he's he's scared, okay?

[00:03:14]It's he really is just scared. So, I grab the crate, and this is like an 80 lb dog, okay? I drag him into the training room of my facility, and I mean, nine times out of 10, you let a dog out of the crate, and you can they'll come up to you. They'll it takes them like 5 minutes to warm up to you, okay? Like, it it typically doesn't take that long. [snorts] So, I let him out into the training facility and he immediately like busts out and starts aloof barking at me, running around the facility like a feral animal, you know, for lack of a better word. He is trying to jump out of my windows like a cat. He is barking at me, running around, peeing, freaking out. And I'm like, "Oh, wow." Okay. So, I give him a minute and nothing is improving. So, I just like walk back into my kennel room and he does run into one of my kennels. Okay, I had a kennel open. I'm like, "Okay, great. I'm not going to push it any further. Like, I This is just a dog that I'm housing tonight. Like, I'm just going to let him decompress." Okay. I shut him in the kennel. And we have indooroutdoor kennel runs. They have an indoor and outdoor run. They are metal kennel runs with a metal top. Um, and I shut him in. I go to get him a bucket of water. And by the time that I get back, no, I mean, I could not have been gone for more than 2 minutes. He had run to the outdoor part of the kennel run, grabbed the metal bar and completely bent the kennel run inwards. Like the whole door was bent inwards and he had escaped. Now our facility we are double fenced in. So, he is now just running on the outside part of our outdoor kennel run area.

[00:05:00]I am hoping that he will just run back into a different pen. Some of our kennel runs only have single latches. I opened one that had a double latch so that I could latch the bottom portion of his kennel. I just made sure that I opened this one because originally he just ran into one that had one single latch. Um, at this point you could tell he knew that he was going to get trapped. So, he was not running into any run at this point. He was actually trying to jump and scale the 8ft metal part of the fence that we have. And there is a small gap at the top of that like 8ft chain link fence. And he was starting to climb. So, I stopped putting pressure on him because I did not want him to climb over the top of this. I go and I get a slip lead and he ends up running into the corner that is bricked. So, I I corner him >> and at this point he's like very scared.

[00:05:53]Um, and I put the slip on him and I try to drag him into a kennel and he chewed through the slip. This is the part of rescue people do not talk about. Um, this video is not pretty. Most people would probably not post this because I'm going to get torn apart in the comments by everyone who does not do this, who does not take in dogs like this, and who thinks that this dog can just that I can just wait around for hours and wait for this dog to warm up to me. Like, it does not work like that.

[00:06:20]I want you to keep in mind, this is not the footage of me actually getting this leash on him. That took forever. He was trying to bite me and attack me and I had to go get this coronda. As you can see, he's coming at me here. um trying to bite me here.

[00:06:34][snorts] And I try to kind of correct him soon here. You'll see for chewing on this leash because I've had dogs chew through slip leads like this and I really don't want them to do that.

[00:06:44]But he ends up chewing through the slip lead right here anyway.

[00:06:47]>> [ __ ] >> What happened?

[00:06:51]>> Just bought that [ __ ] slip blade, too. God damn it.

[00:06:57]>> Do I need to go get the hooping rope?

[00:06:59]before I even got a leash on him in my training room. Had been so terrified he must have blown a blood vessel in his nose. He was gushing blood out of his nose. Um, at this point he chewed through the slip and was gushing blood out of his mouth and he was acting like he had never been on a leash before or been around people. Okay, so he chews through that purple slip lead that you see. You'll get a second slip lead hoping that I can just get him in a kennel run and he chews through that one in like 2 seconds. So, at this point, he is actually starting to charge me. And I don't have the footage of him actually attacking me because I look, I'm not that good at filming. I I can film as much as I can film. Not when he's an 85 lb dog is actively attacking me. Okay.

[00:07:54]>> No. Oh, no.

[00:08:00]Keep in mind this is already after I had got him with a second slip lead and he chewed through that one and then I had to poop him on this cow rope and by that point he was like really coming at me and it was really hard to get him on this cow rope.

[00:08:15]And I can't just guide him in there with a slip lead because he's trying to bite me. And I was not about to walk into the kennel run first and then have to get around him in the kennel to get out because I guarantee he would have charged and tried to attack me. So Dylan actually went outside and we fed the cow rope through the kennel run and he had to pull him in that way. You'll see here.

[00:08:40]>> Keep going.

[00:08:44]Keep going.

[00:08:46]Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. He's stuck.

[00:08:50]>> Okay.

[00:08:51]>> Hold on.

[00:08:52]>> Hold. Uh.

[00:08:55]>> What do you mean?

[00:08:55]>> Well, HOLD ON. IT'S JUST HOLD ON. DON'T LET GO. Don't let go. I'm holding.

[00:09:00]>> So, obviously here, he got caught on the door. So, I ended up taking a cor and actually just shoving the leash underneath where it was caught.

[00:09:08]Obviously, I couldn't put my hand anywhere near him.

[00:09:12]Don't do that. I don't want to charge me.

[00:09:14]>> Yeah, good point.

[00:09:20]>> It's a very similar scene the next day when animal control comes to pick him up. We have to like loop the the cow rope through the back of the kennel and pull him into the kennel so that they can get him cuz they didn't want him loose in the back of their truck, which I don't blame them. It would have been extremely difficult to get him out uh into the facility. Get to animal control. I give them the information of the guy and the animal control officer.

[00:09:42]This is where it starts to get fun.

[00:09:44]Okay. Animal control officer goes, "Oh, we got an email from that guy last week trying to surrender three dogs and a litter of 10 puppies."

[00:09:55]So, I text him and I say, "Hey, did you have puppies by chance?" So, he denies having the puppies and then he tells me that he doesn't have the Facebook messages and his fianceé does. next day that that that he sent an email to animal control. The dog was dumped in a field. Okay, we have footage on a lady's ring camera of the dog. So, we did some digging and I found the fiance and she made a post about her dog giving puppies to Maverick's litter. On this post, I was able to find somebody who commented who adopted one of Maverick's siblings and he sent me a screenshot of a message where she recently told him that that dog had another litter of 10 puppies.

[00:10:32]She was asking him if he knew anyone who wanted another puppy or if he wanted another puppy. Obviously, this is extremely concerning because where are those 10 puppies? So, I ask him to message her about the puppies and he does and she discloses that they dropped those dogs off at a rescue in Manuka and then hits us with another bomb that she has a third litter of 1 week old puppies. That litter of 10 ended up at a rescue called Wags to Wishes. So, we got a hold of them where we got a different story. So, this is the post that Wags made before they got the details of the case and you can pause to read, but they essentially played victim, cried, said that they were going to be homeless, living on the streets. They had nowhere to go and got Wags to take the puppies in. She said she was going to keep the mom dog. We can't force these people to give us their dogs. Like, that has to happen with animal control and like the law, okay? So, the rescue can't like enforce this even though we want to so that we can get [snorts] the dog fixed.

[00:11:26]They say they're going to keep the mom dog. It's going to be fine.

[00:11:30]Okay. However, that guy's screenshot says that she has another litter of six puppies that she never told this rescue about.

[00:11:40]So, you had six more puppies. Okay, I want you guys to know at this point I am livid. And she messages me on Instagram because I was posting about her in my stories. If you want to pause and read these, you can. I wasn't going to message her back, but then I thought maybe she would give me more information, which she totally did. The gist of it is just me trying to figure out like which dogs are which and I found another Facebook post of litter mates from Maverick's litter. So I sent her that trying to see if I could figure out which dog was which and she ended up telling me that one of those dogs was Charlie. And if you guys know Charlie is the mom to the litter of six, which she says Maverick was the dad. So essentially Charlie and Maverick litter mates had a litter. Now they say that the second litter of 10 is the same parents as litter number one. Karma and Finn. Karma and Finn had litter number one, which produced Maverick, Charlie, and a third dog that they have named Moose, who is a female. I guess Maverick and Charlie produced a litter of six. If I didn't have the screenshot, I don't think we would have known about this this other litter of puppies. So, I make a post about it on Facebook. It I mean, it gets some attention and they are pissed off. Okay, they're messaging me.

[00:12:52]biggest thing that they were mad about was them saying that they weren't the ones to abandon Maverick, which is just like, okay, they couldn't give me the name of the guy they rehomed the dog to.

[00:13:01]Derek was telling me that Emily was the one who did it, and then Emily was telling me that she had no idea that Derek even rehomed him. Just a three- ring circus. And then I told them that I would be happy to take Maverick on if they paid for the training. And obviously, they didn't want to do that.

[00:13:16]Also, him just blatantly denying that Charlie and Maverick are litter mates and they are the one who had the litter.

[00:13:23]Emily's mom calls me the fiance. Take that post down. Emily's getting death threats and if anything happens to her, I am holding you personally accountable.

[00:13:33]Okay. Well, then don't have three accidental litters.

[00:13:38]If you didn't if you don't want to be held accountable, don't do this. So, I don't need to post it on should not ever own another intact animal, let alone really another dog in your life. She then tells me that Emily and Derek are moving into her house and she is allowing them to bring the girls, but she didn't she wasn't going to allow them to bring Maverick cuz it's an intact male and she doesn't want puppies. Okay. So, I'm guessing that's why they dumped Maverick. The puppies are only a week old that Charlie's got to go with them because they can't be without their mom. Honestly, thank God because then we were able to get the mom to surren Emily surrender Charlie and her litter of six. Wags was so gracious to take them um because this dog is also going to be a nightmare. Emily could not even bring her in on her own. They had to wait for Derek. The dog was trying to bite Emily, her own owner. Um and when they brought Charlie in, she was covered in in lacerations apparent. This was the updated post that Wags had posted of Charlie and the puppies.

[00:14:38]Maverick had attacked her.

[00:14:42]So, they were just going to hide this dog. I had to pry and go and have people reach out to me with screenshots for them to even admit to having Charlie and a third litter of puppies. So, they were just going to let this heal on its own at home.

[00:14:58]This is like this is literal animal neglect. Like this is insane. Let's talk about what's going to happen to Maverick because this is a serious conversation that we that is going to be hard to talk about. Maverick is a very dangerous dog.

[00:15:13]I offered to rehab him, but there comes a point where I cannot take on so many free foster cases. Okay? And this is not a typical foster case. This is a dog that is going to take minimum 3 to 4 months for me to rehab to a point where he's handable. My kennel right now is currently 25% full with foster rocks. I have bills to pay.

[00:15:36]This this facility does not pay for itself. Okay. I I foster. I'm not a rescue. I don't take donations. I don't have a 5013C. I foster for other rescues. I can only take on so many free cases. And Maverick is the point the Maverick is is the line that I can't cross where I cannot do that for free.

[00:15:57]So, I offered to rehab him for five grand for 4 months minimum. Um, which is extremely generous don rate. Honestly, that's that's half off of of a board and train rate. Um, and I I welcome anyone I welcomed anyone else to tag another rescue who would take this dog. Um, someone tagged Midwest Working Dog Rescue. They offered to take the dog to rehab it for a minimum of 4 months with at four grand a month. Okay? Because this is not a normal rehab case. This dog is extremely messed up. Um, why is he so bad? A lot of people are saying like, "What did the guy do to him?" If I'm going to be real here, I don't think that the owners were like beating him.

[00:16:37]Um, were they maybe correcting him harshly? Maybe. I don't really know. I I didn't see the dog enough. My guess is these people just had these dogs in their little small house. Um, just to their own devices, right? It was a pack of dogs. They had Moose, Charlie, Karma, Finn, and uh, who else? Maverick and then a litter of 10 puppies and a litter of six puppies, plus an Aussie who died that got sick, I guess, and who knows who else that I can't get out of them.

[00:17:03]Um, and these dogs have had multiple like neighborhood complaints for running at large. Um, Finn, the dad of Maverick, the the first and second litter of 10, was euthanized for biting multiple people. Um, so like we've got a lot of issues. We've got a lot of bad genetics.

[00:17:22]And bad genetics are hard enough to overcome with proper training and socialization. So when you add bad genetics with no socialization, um just terrible training, terrible habits, like I think Maverick is a dog that can happen without like physical abuse, that's not to say he's not like neglected. And it makes me really concerned for the puppies uh the that Wags has, the litter of 10, and even more so the litter of two of six that Maverick and Charlie had. He did not have a rescue step forward. Um, all of these people in the comments are like tagging these rescues, saying he can be saved and like maybe he can. We did not have a rescue step forward. Animal control is not equipped to uh rehab a dog to this to this measure, right? We have people saying that they'll adopt the dog. Here's the problem with that.

[00:18:06]This dog is a liability. If you adopt this dog to anyone who doesn't know what they're doing, animal control is assuming that liability. Like that dog's going to get out and bite somebody and now it's on animal control and they they just can't have that. So, they have to have somebody take on the liability. And the only people who can pull a dog like this is a 5013C because then they can release that liability to that rescue.

[00:18:28]And no rescue wants to step up and take on that liability. And like honestly, can you can you blame them? Like this dog already has a bite history.

[00:18:36]According to family members, he has also killed another dog. Um, and he also attacked Charlie. So, somebody has to step up and take on a case like this.

[00:18:47]And I I cannot do it for free. Midwest working dog cannot do it for free.

[00:18:51]Somebody has to house this dog. Somebody has to to take this on. So, unfortunately, Maverick is going to be behaviorally euthanized. It sucks to talk about, but it's also the reality of situations like this. This is really only the fault of these people who irresponsibly had these dogs in this in this house breeding. Offered that I would take the dog on if they would pay the five grand for the training. and they they did not they just sent the dog over to animal control. So they they had the option and that would have been me taking on a lot of liability because even if I got this dog rehabbed in 5 months, which I do think I could have gotten to the point where I could handle him and he'd be fine with me. We have to find somebody who can adopt a dog of this caliber and keep up with the training to the same level that that a professional dog trainer can. And finding homes like that is extremely difficult. So, even if somebody paid for 5 months of training for this dog, like I might be stuck with him for a year or two and I already have Canyon, who is nowhere near Maverick. Um, but Canyon is what Canyon is could turn into Maverick in the wrong hands. And that is why I have taken on Canyon and I love him to death, but it's why I'm super selective with where he will get adopted. This is also a topic that is not talked about enough is that behavioral euthanasia and kill shelters are not the enemy. um they are needed and they are doing honestly God's work. It sucks if you Nobody wants to euthanize dogs. Nobody in this business wants to euthanize dogs. It is something that needs to be done sometimes. Um and it's something that not a lot of people talk about and not a lot of the world sees. Dogs like Maverick like rescues have the rescues have the option to pull what dogs they want. Some of the rescues that got tagged that never stepped forward. Wags.

[00:20:35]Wags is the only rescue that stepped forward and even they won't pull Maverick and I don't blame them. They they shouldn't. He is not He's not a candidate for adoption unfortunately. He is going to hurt somebody or something.

[00:20:47]Thank God to Wax for pulling the puppies and Charlie. Charlie alone is probably also a candidate for behavior euthanasia. She's having a hard time uh with the staff. Um only one person there can handle her right now and she is extremely crate aggressive. She didn't even want to go in with her puppies at one point. [snorts] And it's a lot of stress, too. Like, obviously, she's getting taken out of her home and she's with strangers. So, we can't blame her.

[00:21:09]They're going to give her the best shot that they can. I know they are. They do everything they can over there to help these dogs. But rescues can pick and choose what they want to pull. They can if they see an aggressive dog like Maverick, they are not going to pull that dog because they know the reality of that dog. Animal controls and kill shelters do not have the option to turn down a dog like Maverick. Maverick was in the streets. I picked him up.

[00:21:35]Somebody's got to take that dog. There's no there is no turning those dogs away for an animal control. Um [snorts] so animal control has to take those dogs in and now they are responsible for that dog. So um they cannot safely adopt a dog like that out to the public and something has to be done. And this is the other thing about Maverick is like, could I could I take him on for five months in rehab? I'm sure the amount of time that he is going to take for a situation that he might not even still be able to be adopted or I might have to hold him for a year to find the right adopter. I could probably save 10 to 20 dogs in that amount of time. If somebody had a problem with Maverick being behaviorally euthanized, they could have stepped up. They could have I've told multiple people that I would I would I would do the dirty work and take the dog in and rehab him and deal with him trying to attack me for the next month if someone would just sponsor his 5 grand of training and nobody step forward. Okay? Not a single rescue that was tagged step forward. Um and nobody stepped forward to pay that price. And [snorts] it sucks cuz that's that's a very discounted rate. Like I am not making money doing that. It pisses me off. But these people still have two intact females. I think that it should be illegal for them to have any attack intact animal. Um they still have Karma and Moose. There's nothing we can do about it. Like we're we're the law would have to do something about that. And I I was told that Grundy County is investigating the situation as well as Will County. Grundy County can't do anything about their current dogs because they live in Will County. So it's really in Will County's hands to investigate. Um, and if you look at their extensive criminal records, the reason that all of this happened is because they're getting evicted from their house for having too many animals according to their neighbors complaints, which very much tracks. Um, so they're they got evicted and that's kind of I think what triggered this whole situation cuz they have nowhere for all these dogs to go. Um, and they have multiple other issues. They have like bite records on their case, dogs not being vaccinated for rabies, like refusal to bring a dog in after it had bitten. Um, so they have like a big rap record with animal issues as well as just like other things that don't pertain to this backyard breeding situation. [snorts] Um, so all we can do is hope that Will County is addressing the situation and hopefully they're able to impound the the remaining two females. Um, but we'll see. If not, I'm hoping that this video will get them to come forward and and get rid of their two females or at least get them spayed. I don't know. But I'm going to blast them everywhere because this is [ __ ] I'm so sick of cleaning up after other people. They produced 27. Let's count. They produced two litters of 10, a litter of six. That's 26 animals plus Karma plus Finn plus this Aussie have been dumped in the hands of rescues animal controls because of them. And like the worst part about that is that's probably about the amount of animals that I have fostered and rehabbed this year. So, it's like everything I've done this year to help the shelter crisis has been negated by one irresponsible person. And that's how quickly these things can happen. That leads me to another topic that I wanted to talk about in this video is why all rescues spay and neuter their animals before they get adopted. And if they don't, they should. And it's because of people like this. I am a big supporter of keeping your dogs intact until they're fully grown. However, when it comes to rescues and the general public, I will never let an animal get adopted without being fixed because of people like this. Situations like this is worse to me than the possible health effects that your dog could get because they're neutered before 6 months old. It is not worth it. 27 dogs produced by one person, two people, by a couple. 27 dogs.

[00:25:26]Just let that just let that marinate with you. Like if karma was spade, none of this none of these dogs would have happened. We would not have these we would not have Maverick running a mock at animal control. Like none of this would have happened. I don't know what the answer is. Um but I wish we could somehow regulate that. Like ethical breeding is not the problem. It's it's everything in between. Um, and this is why rescues spay and neuter everything no matter what the age is because it's just not worth it because people can say that they're going to fix their dog and they don't. They don't follow through and they lie. Like the constant lying that we have seen in this video alone, these people just lying hand over fist.

[00:26:06]So, when Derek finally got back to me about the guy who was apparently the one who dumped the dog because he kept telling his mom and Emily that it was somebody and it wasn't him. He kept swearing it wasn't him. He sent me some random breeder and said that the guy wanted to buy Maverick for his breeding program. And when I reached out to the breeder, he had no idea who this guy was or who this dog was. And he definitely did not buy it for his program. The only other big detail I think that I missed is the fact that they were crying to me on the phone. His mom was crying to me on the phone saying that no rescues would take the puppies or the dogs. And so I had Wags offer to take all of the dogs for them. And when they went to sign the papers to surrender Maverick, they told Grundy County that nobody would take them even after I just got off the phone with them saying that Wags would take all their dogs. And I think that they're just trying to keep their dogs. I have no idea. But it's extremely frustrating that they are lying to our face saying that nobody would take the dogs when I just told them that we would. So, I think that's going to have to be a wrap on this case, guys. I will keep you updated if we end up getting the other two dogs, but in the meantime, please be responsible with your dogs.

[00:27:14]Don't make me make posts about you and come confiscate your animals. Please just neuter and spay them or don't have intact animals if you can't be responsible.