15/11/2023
Rooterville Killed a Horse! More Killings Planned!
Horse "Moon" Murdered
A employee at Rooterville reports having witnessed a horse named Moon being shot to death at Rooterville a couple of days ago. When Moon wasn't killed after the first shot, the gunman ran it down and shot it a second time then walked away with Moon's blood all over himself. Reportedly, when the vet refused to put Moon down Rooterville's owner, Elaine West, called in a gunman. The employee filed a police report, see attached. NOTE: the employee-- who we will refer to as Employee A from this point forward-- explains that the police call log is in error when it says the call was cancelled. Instead, contact was reportedly made with a sheriff and a deputy who stated they would investigate further. Employee A says that she and her husband-- who was a trolley driver for Rooterville on the weekends before recently quitting and who we will refer to as Employee B from this point forward-- will try and touch base with the sheriff and/or deputy again today. We will keep you updated!
Murder of 20 More Pigs is Planned Soon
Employee A was reportedly given direct access to Elaine West's emails for which she took screenshots of and sent to us. We are unsure if we can legally share those screenshots or not so we will just describe them. With our own eyes we've seen email proof that West plans to euthanize 20 more pigs and we've sent this evidence to authorities. Basically West "rescues" new pigs then turns around and kills pigs levying an ongoing revolving door of murder in the eyes of the pig rescue community and those in the vegan farm rescue community for which West professes to both be a part of and to represent through Rooterville. We fear West will kill these pigs soon so we must all join together and act fast, we explain how you can help at the end of this post.
Murder of 2 Cows Planned
Employees A and B report that West plans to euthanize a cow named Tinsel and another cow, this evidence is being gathered as we speak.
Breeding Cows
We are told by Employees A and B and another employee who has come forward, who we will call Employee C, that Rooterville is breeding Highland cows for personal profit.
Changing Rooterville's Mission Statement from Rescue to Farm
We have email evidence that West is changing her mission statement from a loving vegan forever home for farm animals to something that is more aligned with allowing her to kill and breed animals without risking fraud allegations. Her email states and I quote, "I want to redo a mission statement too and get away from animal rescue and focus more on providing a safe, nurturing place that models kindness and compassion for people in the cities to come to and connect with nature and experience the healing, calming magic of the animals. Something along those lines, a place for people to get away and have a potentially life changing experience with our animals."
Sounds to us like West is looking to appeal to city-goers who will pay big bucks for agritourism by being a hobby farm all whilst trying to keep her charity status in tact. To support our opinion, another one of West's e-mails reads as follows: "I don't think it will take 2-4 years to get the revenue up at Rooterville, we made over $100k from people coming in the gate, we have a monthly educational program starting when the weather gets warmer next year and our rentals tripled in one year. And we are just opening for wedding/events. This place is ready to go! Find anything that triples in a year and try to buy it. And there is plenty of room still with the RV spots. The demand is there, I just have to figure out how to find the snowbirds. You're thinking of a 10% increase in the printing business and this agritourism business is the hottest thing in the state of Florida, potential here is out of the park!"
Couple the aforementioned language with the killings and breeding of animals at Rooterville and it's more than clear that West's goal is more aligned with being a profitable agritourism hobby farm than a true charity sanctuary for the animals which is, once again, defrauding its donors! Note: It appears West will continue running Rooterville like a hobby farm and agritourism attraction to pad her own pockets until she's able to sell Rooterville for a pretty penny-- note that she currently has it listed for sale at a million bucks, see link below.
Lied about Board Member
We were recently contacted by someone who informed us that West fraudulently added her to her 2020 business filings as a board member when she had actually refused to be a board member after West failed to provide her financials along with other concerns. We will call this person Board Member #1 and have suspicion that the second person listed in West's 2020 filings was a bogus board member also but have not yet confirmed this.
Only Board Member
It currently appears from recent business filings that West is the only board member for Rooterville which violates the checks and balances required of a nonprofit charity.
A Former Board Member Comes Forward
A Board member from 2018 recently came forward to provide us with her account against West stating she and another board member terminated their association with Rooterville after West refused to provide financials; engaged in excessive buying for the online shop; and levied needless killings of animals. We will call this person Board Member #2. Regarding the needless killings, Board Member #2 reports that one of the older pigs was injected with a sedative right on the feeding line and, quote, "I had to stand over the pig while she was lying in food and other pigs trying to route the food out from under her unconscious body.... it was incredibly cruel." --see screenshot.
Potential Buyer
West reportedly backed out of a recent contract with a potential buyer. Her behavior with this man was abusive in our opinion, see screenshots.
Refusal to Pay Employees
It is a matter of public record that West was ordered to pay someone approximately $1000 in stiffed funds through the courts in times past. Many workers have complained that West has made a habit of refusing to pay them. Per recent email evidence provided to us, a certain employee is currently having to go through an attorney to try and obtain $2500 in stiffed wages from West. To try and get out of paying, West tried to say the person was a contractor and not an employee but the attorney proved this was not the case and threatened West with being reported to the Labor Board. Several employees have reported to us that they've had to make multiple demands before receiving payment from West and/or never receive their final checks or other monies due.
Shameful Financial Emails
On October 13, 2023 West wrote an email to what looks to be a potential buyer and said the following, "Be patient and I'll get more numbers, we aren't going to be able to "fix" all that's wrong with the 22 return due to crazy large journal entries that we cannot tell where the accountant drew the numbers from.... you won't have a good picture until Jan 5th or so....." West goes on to explain that her online store sales are floundering and she will need expert help--- this is ridiculous. If you buy so much stuff to the point of hoarding, as West has done for years per multiple witness accounts, then you risk not being able list and/or sell all your merchandise thereby causing a massive deficit. Common sense, and not expert advice, is all that is needed in this situation! We could be wrong but it appears from email evidence provided to us as if West recently had to get an increase in credit from a creditor, something we feel could have been avoided through use of better money management practices.
And it gets worse from there, West goes on to say "I don't know how many people have us in their will, a couple of people have told me ###XX said we'll get "a lot" of money when she passes." Not sure about you guys but we don't think waiting on someone to pass for their money like a vulture waits for roadkill is respectful to a charity's donors. But then again West does not respect the animals for which her donors support so such vile behavior is to be expected.
Critical Past History
Rooterville had 400 pigs around 2018 and went down to 100 pigs by 2020, many of those pigs were needlessly killed according to approximately 20 witness accounts. We turned Rooterville's owner, Elaine West, into the authorities and provided them with a plethora of evidence, proof that we provided in five separate posts on this page for your review, see links below. Unfortunately, the authorities concluded that West humanely killed the animals so they let her off the hook for animal cruelty and, since that time, Elaine has been trying to change and correct financial issues in effort to come up to par despite evidence that we (and many others) feel proves serious fraud. Apparently Florida agritourism attractions like Rooterville can kill their livestock despite having accrued millions of dollars from public donations under the guise of being a vegan forever home charity for farm animals, shameful!
Fudging Resident Numbers
To date, the only real result from the investigations is that West was finally forced to admit that she cares for over 100 animals instead of over 400 animals which is what she was trying to claim before we exposed her. However, since she hasn't even received a hand slap from the authorities you can see her clearly sneaking back to making it look like she cares for hundreds of animals when she doesn't, see screenshots.
More Evidence Coming Soon
We will provide additional evidence as it is received.
Here's How You Can Help:
Our past complaint against Elaine West of Rooterville rendered two main cases: one with Clay County Sheriff Department on animal cruelty (closed without charges being filed) and one with the Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement on financial fraud under Case #22-606, a case which continues to be open the last we heard.
We have taken the new financial fraud concerns listed in this post to the Office of Ag and the new animal cruelty concerns listed in this post (such as West killing Moon the horse and her future plans to kill 20 more pigs and 2 cows) has been sent to both the Office of Ag (as killing and breeding animas whilst claiming to be a rescue charity is fraud) and also Putnam County Sheriff's Department.
YOU CAN HELP in two ways:
#1. Sign our petition, link below.
#2. Contact the officer per the e-mail address listed in the following update on Rooterville, see link below:
https://www.facebook.com/thepigpatrol/videos/1749375798910432/
--The Pig Patrol
Link to petition:
https://www.change.org/rooterville
Link to selling Rooterville for A Million Bucks:
https://www.landsearch.com/properties/1208-n-county-road-315-melrose-fl-32666/3200131?fbclid=IwAR1Ari3LexVhlkE5gcOe_pTyNq7rJRmi9sfWgjL29OI2qOJsF1U0LZN-KFY
Link to past Rooterville evidence #1:
https://www.facebook.com/profile/100069622993577/search/?q=rooterville
Link to past Rooterville evidence #2:
https://www.facebook.com/thepigpatrol/posts/pfbid02fWVUP8eTbLEijp4H5Bj5X89cxnwZ29qLSzJGBY6w55tCH2R8mWNjtR7Yyoz6r5eKl
Link to past Rooterville evidence #3:
https://www.facebook.com/thepigpatrol/posts/pfbid036sYwKqHatXeaKmHrHdiwNC8ETnbzWiyhrVZpXcP9vVvtvAwQ7cSrruzPCS82BiQ8l
Link to past Rooterville evidence #4:
https://www.facebook.com/thepigpatrol/posts/pfbid02A65p4SuupLAvhad381GH2j6uSSm1iZSZ9GzeFr37cmZFbhZUTSqKyv5ZZm8iJXEql
Link to past Rooterville evidence #5
https://www.facebook.com/thepigpatrol/posts/pfbid02NQD2nTV6arJKLQfkopoCRH363DotCquoTuo5e6fg6Z4qvxxsppK77i9T1Lw8csGPl