Raven Maniacs~American Border Collie Association Wall of Shame~

The American Border Collie Association has its own "Wall of Shame".
www.abcbordercollies.com/
Here they list they have expelled Richard Swafford, Mary Ann Harrison, Steve and Cindy McCoy, and Kristin Campbell.
Since the ABCA feels that they need to publicly ruin reputations and businesses, we felt it was time to add some breeders to the "Raven Maniacs ABCA Wall of Shame".
John Wilson of Jefferson, Texas is being charged with two counts of animal cruelty and has had 180 dogs removed from his land in Jefferson, TX.
John Wilson of Sandspring Border Collies will be our "ABCA Wall of Shamer" for the month of May.
Look for details soon.
July's Wall of Shame is Border Collie Breeder Basher Patricia Boswell of Texas or Louisiana who considers herself number one in the breeding world of Border Collies.
The American Border Collie Association allowed this MANIAC to bash other breeders until they disappeared as her competition, and now she has basically ruined the fair dogs that she has by breeding them to UK Kennel Dogs.
How did Boswell get her breeding stock?
Most of it was traded out by Boswell.
She would send puppy customers to the bigger breeders in her area like Rodney Cotton and John Wilson, and she would get dogs, puppies, and breedings in return.
She would tell them that she would send no more customers their way if they sold dogs or puppies to certain people.
Her buddies are just as bad or worse than she is.
One is a drunk with a son in the pokey.
Boswell continuously changes her website, and it now looks like a circus of things to buy including Border Collie Puppies.
She and her cohorts had Mr. Wilson busted, and then she went on the Border Collie Boards, sponsored by the USBCHA and said his puppies just looked horrible.  (Not too horrible for her, though)
Amazing that she bred to his expensive champion dog right out at the gate of his property.
Wouldn't want anyone knowing that, eh?
Her veterinarian of choice is the daughter of none other that Rodney Cotton.
Boswell is still harassing the breeders she bashed with phone calls of the stupidest nature.
Want to see this breeder's website?
Go here:  http://www.gforcebordercollies.com/
You cannot find directions to her house and only a Shreveport, LA cell is listed on the site.
All of her pictures are posed.  None of the dogs is ever seen at play.
None of the dogs are seen working.  There are tons of puppy pictures.

The American Border Collie Association should be ASHAMED of the actions of this so-called breeder.  She is definitely NOT PROMOTING the working ability of the Border Collie, but she is PROMOTING PATRICIA BOSWELL G-FORCE BORDER COLLIES, HVN'S BORDER COLLIES, and, of course, her pocketbook.

Way to go ABCA.

Raven Maniacs~The American Border Collie Association~Lack of Checks and Balances

As far as registries go, this one has definitely been remiss in its duties..  They have no system of checks and balances as far as their breeders go.  Since their inception in the 80's, they have been a member-owned registry.
But in reality, most of the members have no say so in how the association is run, and the registry is run by an "elite" few that run things as they see fit.  The Board of Directors has made it very comfortable for their friends, most of them AKC Breeders as well as the "elite" herding dog group.  Most of their monies are spent for herding trials and huge salaries for their few employees, most of whom have full-time jobs, too.
In the erstwhile, they have no method of checking up on breeders unless one of their member friends is complaining.  There is no unannouced kennel inspection of their members' breeding facilities, just as long as they keep those litter registrations coming in, they keep on living the high lives of the dog trialing world.
Recent exposures of huge Border Collie Mill operations have still not waked up the dummies sitting all day and all night on the Border Collie boards.
Jodi Darling works for the state of Idado, so how the heck does she have time to sit on that board all day long at the taxpayers' expense?
She never misses a puppymill bust, but her first dog, Jag, came from one, she bought it at 4 weeks old, and it arrived on the plane at that age, too. 
Anyway, reading some of the comments about the ABCA's reponsibilities in these "oversights" about what is going on with their breeders, one has to chuckle.
"I am not trying to the throw the ABCA under the bus..." one of the members wrote.
At this point, I would say the ABCA is roadkill.
Heck.  Wake up!!  You are the ABCA.  You folks, the people sitting on that board need to get a grip and demand some changes or we are going to see this happening over and over.

I AM FURIOUS!!  The ABCA just sits and watches and lets the Humane Society of America pay to do all of their dirty work.  The ABCA targets certain breeders but allows others to go unchecked with their massive puppymills.  Right in Mount Pleasant, Texas there is a HUGE puppymill with THIRTY breeding females, litters of puppies always on the ground, but the ABCA has seemed to overlook ABOUT EWE BORDER COLLIES.  Who inspects this kennel?  Is it the dreaded AKC, the registry that the ABCA won't register dogs from? 
GRETCHEN STAHL of STAHL'S BORDER COLLIES in Tennessee sells ABCA Border Collie Puppies yet she brags that she has one AKC inspection a year.
Get off your butts and make some reasonable requirements for your Border Collie Kennels.
Or are you afraid you can't use all of that puppy money to pay for those elite USBCHA herding trials????
WTF.  The ABCA is STILL REGISTERING DOGS AND PUPPIES FROM SANDSPRING BORDER COLLIES.
Perhaps this is because some influential breeders have purchased dogs and puppies from this man.
For instance, Alicia Barrett of RED DAWN BORDER COLLIES, http://www.reddawnborders.com/ancestors%20&%20relatives/ancestors.htm, proudly boasts of dogs and puppies from this man's lines as well as ABOUT EWE BORDER COLLIES, http://aboutewebordercollies.com/availablepuppies.html,
AMMONS BORDER COLLIES, http://www.ammonscowdogs.com/border_collie_parents.html,
BAND B BORDER COLLIES, http://www.bandbbordercollies.com/C%20Horse%20Cooper%20Pedigree.htm,
G-FORCE BORDER COLLIES, http://www.gforcebordercollies.com/
The last is the worst of all because she bought from Sandspring Border Collies, and sold for them, yet she posts the nasty comments about him on the Border Collie lists.

Re: The Puppy Mill in Texas

Posted by: "Trish Boswell" http://us.mc1105.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=boswellrt@aol.com&Subject= Re%3A%20The%20Puppy%20Mill%20in%20Texas  boswellsbordercollies

Wed Apr 6, 2011 6:06 pm (PDT)

Confused because he has current ads on puppyfind. Or did a few days ago the pups look horrible but somebody is updating them???

Trish Boswell

This breeder is determined to knock out all of the healthy competition in the Border Collie World.

She even has a page for US dog trainers so the links will pull her site up in the google rankings.

How sad.  This is the breeder that bought the most dogs and puppies from John Wilson.