The F.D.S.B. Registration of Timbers Sagaceous Blue ~ a Falsification Created by Setters West

Bossco and Piper ~ photo courtesy of: Branko's Beagles

"LEAFING THROUGH the pages of Better Beagling five years ago, Manitoba breeder Frieda Krpan spotted a familiar face. The dog in the photo looked an awful lot like Skooby Doo, a beagle pup she had sold to a Michigan hunter four years earlier. But the photo ran in an ad for a stud named Snow Run Dobie. The fellow who placed the ad was Joseph Kuklenski, owner of an upstart kennel that hoped to compete with Krpan's kennel, Branko's Beagles.

" 'We recognized our dog,' Krpan recalls, suspecting Kuklenski of trying to pass off Skooby Doo as one of his own dogs in order to found a brand on plagiarized genetic stock. But she couldn't prove it.

"She couldn't, that is, until she heard about a new canine identity test, conceived by Joy L. Halverson, a Davis, Calif. veterinarian ..."

from: "The Pooch Police are on the move" by Brigid McMenamin, "Forbes" magazine, May 31st, 1999 edition ~ full article by clicking here.

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In recent years there have been an increasing number of cases involving breeders who are advertising and selling dogs which have had their registration and pedigree information illegally changed. Branko's Beagles was one of a number of upstanding and honest kennels who were victimized by this practice. The culprit in this saga, Joseph Kulenski ~ even though he denied switching registration papers, but which facts proved otherwise ~ was subsequently banned from the AKC and UKC registries, the two main registries for registering Beagles.

Before purchasing your next hunting companion, it is highly advisable to have a DNA test completed to make certain you are getting a pup from the breeding between the Sire and Dam the pup was advertised as being from.

Branko and Frieda Krpan worked hard to build their kennel's reputation and worked hard at maintaining their high standards, producing a number of champions. The unethical and illegal practice of switching and/or falsifying registrations unfortunately is not limited to Beagle breeders alone.

I would like to take this time to thank Branko and Frieda Krpan, proprietors of Branko's Beagles (contact information below), for all their help and guidance in issues pertaining to fraud and falsification of registration papers in regards to a female English Setter pup that was placed in the care of Rick and Chris Taylor of Setters West, 1511 Timberline Road, Lewistown, MT 59457.

The particular dog in question is Timbers Sagaceous Blue, which the Taylors claimed came out of a breeding between Fetters Allegheny Buck (the Sire) and Ryman's Allegheny Sheba (the Dam).

However the Taylors claimed in a letter to me that Ryman's Allegheny Sheba was not fit to breed and was spayed (having never been bred), and supplied "veterinary records" as well ~ which were forwarded to me and my own veterinarian.

Ironically, the OFA (Orthopedic Foundation for Animals) at one point not very long ago had Ryman's Allegheny Sheba listed on their site on the Timbers Sagaceous Blue main listing as the Dam (Ryman's Allegheny Sheba's name as Dam on that main listing has since been removed).

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Still present as of this date however are the on-line OFA Vertical Pedigree records of Timbers Sagaceous Blue and the off-spring of Timbers Sagaceous Blue ~ where Ryman's Allegheny Sheba is still named ~ with the only pup showing having been whelped by her and listed with the OFA as Timbers Sagaceous Blue (out of the "purported" breeding between Fetters Allegheny Buck and Ryman's Allegheny Sheba ~ see following posts).

Despite what the Taylors claim (and have entered into OFA and F.D.S.B. records), the true Sire and Dam of Timbers Sagaceous Blue were both owned by me and were out of line-bred breedings done under my close personal supervision ~ and out of a bloodline which I have personally maintained and presently own.

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Timbers Sagaceous Blue was NOT whelped in Lewistown, Montana, at Setters West, as Rick and Chris Taylor have claimed.

Instead, this particular dog was whelped at my kennel out of a line-bred Sire and Dam that were born and raised at my kennel from a pure line-bred strain.

Genetic testing has proven Timbers Sagaceous Blue could not possibly have been out of the Sire and Dam which Rick and Chris Taylor have claimed ~ and which they registered with the Field Dog Stud Book ~ due to the fact that the bloodline they claim she has is an out-crossed bloodline and the genetics do not match with their claims.

After repeated phone calls to Rick and Chris Taylor of Setters West ~ and having them hang up on me ~ they were contacted by my attorney and have never responded. Further action has been initiated to correct this matter.

Anyone purchasing a pup from Setters West should be aware of these issues as it will affect the registration of any offspring with Timbers Sagaceous Blue in the line of breeding.

Other instances of fraudulent and falsification of registrations of dogs bred by me (or "reportedly" bred by me and carrying the "Fetters" name) have occurred as well ~ and are in the process of being addressed ~ and more information will be forthcoming on this page as well as actual records and documentation to prove these claims beyond all reasonable doubt.

To access Branko's Beagles website, click here ...
Owners: Branko and Frieda Krpan
P.O. Box 40St.
Laurent,
MB
R0C 2S0
CANADA
Phone: 204.646.2543
Fax: 204.646.2165
Email: frieda@brankosbeagles.com

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