Deerwood Kennels

06/18/2024

For my beardie friends

03/30/2024

Visitors to our area can contact Curdie Gardner in Keeseville for day care to visit local attractions.
Call. 518-843-0160 (h). Or
802-363-3984 (c)

03/12/2024

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03/01/2024

The CCHD's 2024 Rabies Clinic schedule hot off the press! Visit our website for more info.

02/29/2024

01/08/2024

Here's this Monday's "You Might Have A LGD If…" We have to credit www.itsdogornothing.com for coming up with many of the weekly posts you see. Feel free to add to our list each week in the comments!

12/08/2023

I have been closed, for all intents and purposes, since covid...but seriously, don't call me at 9:50pm with no caller ID. Just don't.

10/20/2023

Two amazing seminars in one weekend! Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023  9am - 5pm If Goldilocks Was A Dog Trainer: How to Help Dogs Find...

10/13/2023

Solar Eclipse Glasses available at the Keeseville Free Library! Stop by and pick yours up today! Aunnual Eclipse is this Saturday October 14th and the Total Eclipse is April 8th. While supplies last😊

10/06/2023

Gracie is having a bad day. The toll on her old body has probably been too much. I think I will have to let her go very soon.

10/06/2023

Poor Gracie, injured while on the run. She never complained. These dogs are incredible.

10/05/2023

For all you folks that want to help I thank you.
I have called the authorities and they will or won't look at the problem, I have no control over that.
As far as the thought to get a bigger gun or make a louder noise I don't see how this keeps my animals at home as it is the sudden and unpredictable loud noise that chases them off. They are dogs and sheep, they only know that they are frightened of the noise, they will still be frightened if I am the one making the noise.
Retaliation only encourages and strengthens this aggressive person. Especially if it can be done behind a fence. He is a coward and a predator. Sneak attack is his method.
I am open to any and all suggestions but the obvious, "call the cops" and "make a bigger noise" are either not options or have already been done.

10/04/2023

Found George, he is in a state of panic

10/04/2023

My neighbors wife left two messages on my answering machine telling me she is going to put my sheep in her freezer

10/04/2023

My neighbor shoots at my animals

10/04/2023

Looks like I cannot leave my house. Yesterday the criminal did three drive-bys, drive past the house real slow, turn around come back by.
Today I went to the store, locked Gracie in the basement. Came home within two hours and the fence was down and George is gone.

Tell everyone. I am being stalked and harassed and the police won't listen. My dogs are my life.
He shut down my business and has ruined my dogs and now I cannot even leave my house.

Tell everyone.

10/03/2023

For those of you who are interested in Gracie. Very long post.

Gracie was on the run for ten days following a 12ga shotgun blast in close proximity to her barn and charges.
In less than the time it took me to put on pants both of my guardians and the three sheep, here at home, were gone.
Some folks have suggested that I put them somewhere they can't get out of...the small video included shows the gates they broke out from but not the two strands of 10,000 volt electric wires that were set to prevent them from hitting the gates. It also does not clearly show the cinder block anchors or the chunk of tree propped up against them.
It has been suggested, even by the criminal that caused the problem, that maybe I house them indoors in the dog kennel, ten feet further away. Their response would be the same, destroy what you must to flee to safety. Indoors is not a viable option, besides they are responsible for keeping the stock safe.
It has also been suggested that I call the police. The neighbors have been harassing my animals for 25 years. I have called the police 72 times. I have called En Con who is responsible for upholding the law regarding safe shooting distance from dwellings. I have called the County Sheriff and the State Police. I contacted my senator who sent agents to measure the distance from my barn to the place I have pictures of him shooting. Those agents also assisted me in placing a camera to collect evidence.
I have seven witness depositions, 20 pictures and a calendar listing every gunshot.
I hired a lawyer who wrote a very soft letter telling the neighbor that he was being mean and to stop it. Pathetic.
So, supplied with evidence, whose responsibility to collect was mine alone, I had him arrested for harassment. This all on the advice ot Senator Betty Little and the State police.
When I arrived at the court for the arraignment the neighbors we're in the judges chambers and came out laughing like they just had a good joke. Court date set, he was given a public defender.
On the day of the trial he arrived with the assistance of a walker and she had an oxygen cannula and tank. They dressed shabbily.
Opening words by the ADA were, case dismissed on the grounds that the defendant was to infirm to stand the rigors of trial.
So, I have done all I could.
Meanwhile, he continues to shoot around my barn and several times daily he gets in a vehicle and slowly drives by oogling.
I am under constant surveillance by this horror of a human. He does not feel accountable for his actions and will tell you I am crazy. Deflect and deceive.
I will also tell you that the violence escalated after I turned him down for s*xual favors.
I am not safe in my own home. My animals are miserable and showing the affects of the stress.
I am unable to work.
He shut down my dog boarding business, he has been instrumental in shutting down my sheepdog training business, he has shut down my life. Prior to Gracie's miraculous return it was my intention to divest myself of all but two dogs, pack the motorhome and leave. I own my home and I cannot live in it.
I could write so much more but the bottom line is that I HAVE done all that can be done and the authorities have sided with him.
I am a widow (he asked me for s*x the day before my husband died and I had just arrived home from seeing him), I am a Veteran, I am a senior citizen. I am a woman. I don't think I could check any more demographic boxes and be any more needing of protection from my stalker and abuser. I apologize that this narrative does not fit your beliefs but I have done everything I can and he is free to act however he wishes .
Gracie is tired and thin. She doesn't want to sleep but she is eating.
We are all tense.
I do not know how you can help and I know you think there " must be something" that I can do. There is not. He wins.

10/01/2023

Details when they are known...

Gracie has been found alive and is in good hands.

09/23/2023

Still no sign of Gracie.

09/22/2023

guinea pigs are so wonderful for budding trainers