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Samantha Smith AKA Kristen Slice A CON-ARTIST, LIAR & THIEF Without a doubt, this is one of the wierdest stories I have ever heard of in the dog business. I don’t know if this is a mentally deranged person, a schizophrenic person, a thief, or a screwed up con artist on drugs. Maybe it’s all of the above. Every now and then I hear of people who are unhappy with the person they buy a dog from, occasionally I run into people who are down right criminals. Samantha Smith (not her real name) in Columbia S.C. is one such person. I think you will be shocked by this story. These people run a German Shepherd Rescue Org. They take the dogs they rescue and sell them as imported dogs from well known kennels (i.e Peko Haus Kennels in Belgium, Leerburg Kennels) They are the master of putting up FREE WEB SITES. I have found 5 or 6. I got involved when they listed two of these dogs as being Leerburg dogs. The facts are listed below. If you ever find a web site that this person is involved with I would like too hear from you. (here is a copy of a web site Smith put on the Internet less than a month after I published this article) My guess is so would the AKC. This women is a liar and cheat of the highest order. In this article you will see where she admits to using unregistered dogs in her breeding. She admits to registering dogs with false names. She is caught using AKC registration numbers on dead dogs that she had never owned. She lives through her lies. This story is so bizarre that it’s hard to organize. Several months ago I was contacted by a number of people that wrote me about a web site for Blue Sky Kennels in S.C. That web site, which is now off the Internet, listed two Leerburg dogs from my kennel. The photos on this web site looked more like junk yard dogs. I contacted the person running the site and asked where they got Leerburg dogs. I got an answer stating they had bought them as pups from me. I just assumed this was true and let the issue pass. I did not check any further - my mistake. Then this past week I was again contacted from a new person who asked about a web site for Bearclaw Kennel in Lexington S.C. This site had two Leerburg dogs listed. It’s owner (Samantha Smith) had allegedly accepted $500.00 from this person for a dog and then never sent the dog. When I went to the web site (which was taken down the day I started this investigation) I saw that the two dogs listed as Leerburg dogs were the same photos as those that had been on the Blue Sky web site.
I started to e-mail Samantha Smith. I am included several of her e-mails below.
Here is Her Full Information: Samantha Smith She Also Goes By: Kristen Slice She Also Goes By: 1- Carolines Ceramic’s Her German Shepherd Dog Rescue: If you go to Google and search on 803-798-7509 You will get the following information: Joe F Wilkerson, (803) 798-0413, 3506 Cairnbrook Dr, Columbia, SC 29210 Save-A-Life "We rescue Un-wanted Dogs and Puppies from abusive, and homes that are Not fit for animals. We make sure they are Spayed/Neutered, UTD on Shots, On HW Prevention, HW tested, they are Temperment tested to make sure we match the right dog with the right person. We take pride in our babies, and want them to find the Perfect owner for them." I doubt that this listing will stay up for very long but the URL that pointed to this Rescue on google was. In there add for this rescue they ask for dog food, leashes and collars, and food bowls. The Rescue URL = http://www.h4ha.org/shelters/usa/southcarolina.html Asking for Donations = http://www.petfoodbank.org/Help%20Page/States/SC/Sav-a-Life.htm Smiths Rescue listing was deleted from the web after I made the organization aware of what she was doing. This was confirmed by an email to me: Thank you for contacting us about this. The listing has been removed from our directory. Please be aware that we are not associated with that organization in any way. We would appreciate your updating your page to remove the paragraph that points people to the listing in our directory as soon as possible. Best wishes, A Few of Her Web Sites - all Free Web Sites
Samantha Trying to Lie Her Way Out of This Story Initially she said that she had indeed bought two Leerburg dogs from a man named Rob Fields in SC. She gave me his Emil address ( Char Bryan char4u2@lycos.com). As this deal unfolded, it turned out that Char Bryan was indeed Samantha Smith and there was no such person as Rob Fields. A word of warning to anyone considering buying a dog on the internet. Do not do business with people who have free e-mail accounts (i.e. hotmail accounts, lycos accounts, etc. etc.) While Samantha Smith has an AOL account. My records indicated I had never sold anyone named Fields a dog. When I contacted that Rob Fields (AKA Samantha AKA Ms Wolf ) my initial answer indicated that “Yes he had sold Ms Wolf two Leerburg dogs. He said he or his son had bought one of the dogs (Maxie Vom Leerburg) from me. He could not remember. When I went back and emailed Samantha and asked for an AKC number of the Leerburg dogs she sent this number: DL516257/02 If you do a search on the AKC web site you will find that this dog is in fact: DL516257/02 When I initially told Samantha about this she e-mailed me the following: OMG, Rob Wrote to me and told me that I got a Dog that was not from you Kennel. I have called and left a message on Krestens Machine to get the AKC Number of Maxie. All I have from Rob is his E-mail address and his first and last name, when I went to get the Dogs I was not able to go to his house, nor was I able to see his kennel. I met him in a parking lot, because he said he was going to be in my area, so we could meet in a parking Lot. Rob also wrote me 2 mins ago and Daisy is not from you either he said. He write and told me that he lied all he way around and that Daisy is from his same bitch and another dog but he used your Dogs name and Registration number. Ed what do I do? I have never been faced with this before. Best wishes...Sam
Kreston kennels is in Canada. I found them through Google and e-mailed them asking about this dog. I though that there was a possibility they would have a name of a person that they had sold it to (possibly giving me another name of Samantha Smith) Here is the reply from Kreston Kennels: Mr. Frawley, We did have a bitch named Anja von Kreston with AKC registration # DL516257/02, whelped Jan. 12, 1994. She was a replacement for a dog we had purchased from Sukee Kennels in Maine. When we registered with AKC and subsequently CKC, it was under the von Kreston name. Anja came to Canada in March 1994, was registered with AKC date April 08, 1994 and CKC on May 09, 1994. On June 30, 1994, Anja was euthanized because of severe hip dysplasia. If necessary I can provide you with copies of both AKC and CKC registration certificates and the letter from my vet, stating she was eunthanized. Sharon
Samantha would never give me the registration number of the second dog. Her answer was that she sold the dog on the day that I contacted her and the papers were down the street. Rob Fields (AKA Samantha Smith) When I started to pressure Samantha she continued to defer to Rob Fields (actually just a different e-mail address that she had under a different name - it’s a FREE e-mail address from Lycos) Here are some of the e-mails under Rob Smiths name. You will see where she admits to lying about the papers and breeding a male dog that was not registered. On her web site she listed Maxie vom Leerburg and Daisy vom leerburg. (both fictional dogs) She listed Daisy’s sire as my dog Shane. I only bred Shane one time and that was in 2001. There was no Daisy in the litter and the Daisy that she had a photo of on her web site was an adult dog. When I started to e-mail Fields I continued to pressure him for details. I explained that I did not have any record of any sale to a Fields. That I did not have any Fields in S.C. in my 53,000 person video database. I explained that the litters from my kennel never had these names. Here are some of the e-mails. EMAIL # 1 Mr Frawley, Yes I did get the Dog's from you.But like I told in the last E-mail I sold them to the Woman and now I want nothing more to do with it. My part is done, I am nolonger the owner of the Dog's. So I would appreciate it if you and her would STOP Writing too me. ROB FIELDS! EMAIL # 2 Mr Frawley. Yes I sold 2 Dogs to a lady here in South Carolina. 1 black and Tan Bitch named Maxie. I sold her Maxie because she was too tough for me to handle, I wanted to keep her for myself and breed but she got too mouthy for me. So I posted a Ad for her. The Woman E-mailed me about her, we talked back and Forth for awhile. Then we set up a meeting place so she could see Maxie. She bought Maxie from me. Maxie is out of Otis. I bought the Dog from your kennel or my son bought her for me. The other Dog my Son bought for himself and then he moved so he could not keep her. So I contacted Ms. Wolf and she agreed to come and see the other one. We had the same meeting place. She also bought Daisy from me. But Yes I know of the woman that you are speaking about, she has already wrote to me and asked me questions about those two dogs. Like I told her I NoLonger own the Dogs and I nolonger want anything to do with them or even talk about them. They are now a thing of the past for me. But yes I sold her the two dogs in question. ROB FIELDS EMAIL # 3 She has done nothing wrong but buy the dog's from me.My Son did get one of the dog's from you. But if it will make everyone leave me alone on this issue I bred my female to a outside male here, the male did not have AKC papers on him.But Yes with one of the Dog's I lied to the woman about she is not from your kennel. I did not want to get the Woman into Trouble over this whole or deal. I sold her the Dog for $1200. But their you have it. Now please leave me ALONE! ROB EMAIL # 4 Yes I Sold this dog to the woman. So in other words she is not the one that you need to get on, it is me. I told her what she wanted too hear. Because she wanted a Leerburg dog so bad but she said she did not have the money right then for one. So I sold her Maxie and on the papers I put her registered name. ROB EMAIL # 5 Mr. Frawley She has done nothing wrong but buy the dog's from me. My Son did get one of the dog's from you. But if it will make everyone leave me alone on this issue I bred my female to a outside male here, the male did not have AKC papers on him. But Yes with one of the Dog's I lied to the woman about she is not from your kennel. I did not want to get the Woman into Trouble over this whole ordeal. I sold her the Dog for $1200. But their you have it. Now please leave me ALONE! ROB E-Mails From Samantha Smith: Mr Frawley. Maxies is DL/516257/02
Subj: What is going on? I sold you the Dog's because I could no longer keep
them, so why are you jumping down my throat about it? ED’ Comments: Emails from Samantha - I had used some rather RIPE language in accusing her of what I knew to be theft. Here is her response. I will include an email that she then wrote the customer that she cheated out of $500.00. You will see that she is a long way from being Christian. Telling PEOPLE THEY ARE A GOOD CHRISTIAN PERSON. Yah right !!! Anytime I hear that I have ten red flags go up and I am looking over my shoulder for the knife in the ribs. Various E-MAIL from Samantha: Please when writing too me do not use this language,
I am a Christian person and I do not believe in this word. So if you would
like to have the mans E-mail address I will give it too you. Char4U2@Lycos.com Comments from Ed: Here is an email that Samantha sent to the lady she cheated out of $500.00. She tells this woman that I imported one of her females. I DO NOT IMPORT DOGS FOR PEOPLE and this is a lie.I seriously doubt this person has ever owned an imported dog, much less train in Schutzhund. For a GOOD CHRISTIAN WOMAN - she gets a little rank here. An Email from Samantha to the Lady she cheated out of $500.00 she is not in heat yet, I got Rebel from east Germany,
Ed Frawley Imported her for me. She is a SchH I working on her SchH II. 2nd e-mail to this customer: I have already talked to Ed about the Dogs I have. Like
I told him I did not get these Dogs from his Kennel, I bought them from
a man here in SC. EMAIL # 3 Sir, Ed’s Final Comments: Don’t kid yourself, this women is not going to go away. She will continue to cheat people until she goes to jail. If you ever hear of her in dogs, please let me know. I will continue to update this web page on this women. She is nothing less than a liar and a cheat. Comments from other people on this women: Dear Ed, I run a cat rescue organization in Columbia, SC. One of my adopters, who lives in New Jersey, sent me an e-mail about the info posted on your site about the scams allegedly being perpetrated by Brandy Ratliff a/k/a many other aliases. By some peculiar coincidence Brandy Ratliff and her mother Sharon are known to us - one of my foster parents has been acquainted with them for years (but wishes she didn't know them!). These are people who "know how to work the system." Brandy's father was Joe Wilkerson. He died when Brandy was about 8 years old. Brandy is about 22 years old now (although she looks and acts much younger). She does not appear to have a job, neither does her mother, Sharon, but they don't seem to be lacking for anything. Brandy has long had a habit of turning up at my foster parent's house with puppies, dogs, cats or kittens that she has "found." Many of them have not been in good condition. I once had to meet Sharon to pick up three kittens from her that Brandy had found and that Sharon supposedly had been bottle-feeding. One was dying as she handed it to me - I had to take it straight to the vet's to be euthanized. Another died four days later. One survived (and we found it a far better place to be). Brandy has always seemed to live in a fantasy world. She and Sharon are both very internet-literate. If they have indeed actually accepted funds without providing the agreed upon dog, or whatever has been provided is not what they advertised, presumably the purchaser would have legal recourse for fraud. Perhaps reporting the situation to the local sheriff (Lexington County, South Carolina) would stop further fraudulent activity, if any, from taking place. Perhaps you should also report this information to all of the ISP's involved. Good luck. Ed- I live in NC and at one time was involved with rescuing GSDs. Somehow
or another I came across this lady named Kelly who was also, allegedly involved
with rescuing German Shepherds, Dobermans, Rotties or any off the bull
breeds and once she had a great Dane and a Cane Corso. Originally, she claimed
to be married and have 5 of her own GSDS. I talked to her many months until
things got a little fishy. Hi Ed, This is Misty Stotts, I am breeding partners and good friends with Birgit Poe. I too can personally attest to the emails and continuing advertisements of this "Mrs Wolf" bullshit. She has placed SEVERAL ads on Siriusdog.com and the GSD classifieds, ALL of which were using YOUR kennel name and YOUR dogs as a "quick sale" for her shit quality trash kennel. I had thought about writting you before, but decided against it...wishing now I had. If you need anything more to back up what is being said or what has been done with this garbage, please contact me, I will do what I can to help out! Regards, Mr Frawley I too have seen her ads and website on the Leerburg dogs, this is nothing but an Internet Puppy Mill. I have seen another kennel or two quickly changing names when the need arises, makes me sick at my stomach. This one in particular. Misspelled names, incorrect pedigrees, white dogs. black and silver etc.. I have an issue or two with you Mr. Frawley, BUT I back you 110% on this. Let's get the blatant liars and cheats out of business before they hurt the breeders that are producing quality dogs. With Regards, ED If people alert me to any other ads he/she puts up, I will delete them also. If you want to ad to your article that this person is banned from SiriusDog Classifieds. Thanks Ed, Mark Hi Ed: I was flipping around on Breederweb.com after reading your article. I found some email addresses that were not contained in your website, but come very close to the same names. (Seems her "names" describe her nature and disposition better than she thinks.) Now, I have not tried these. I will try it myself (she's never heard from me and I have a new addy) so I could make the "inquiries". I'll leave that to your discretion. Here's what I found:
(In this one the "u" is capitalized as opposed to her last one, which was not. I don't know if it's just a typo or what.) I don't know if this will help, but for those like yourself and so many others with excellent dogs who do post pics, how about putting a "text" on the photo before posting to the website such as "[Dog's name] is property of Leerburg Kennels Only Contact [insert information] only. All other contacts or names are fraudulent." When photos are "stolen" that info goes with them. I would not put it across the bottom of the page, but in a place where, if she or anyone else tries to erase it, it would be noticeable. This bitch has got to be stopped before she ruins some very good reputations with her shitty tactics. (I'm taking this a little personal. My name before marriage was Fields.) Does anybody know what the registering bodies are doing towards putting a stop to her? AKC? CKC? Whatever the other one's are? Good Luck, Ed. Don't hesitate to contact me if you'd like me to try to make contact. Noeleen An Email from Samantha (under a new name) after this article was posted. This person lives a life of lies.
I can across My phone Number on your Site. Sincerely, Another email from Samantha - (under a new name) trying to lie her wayout of this mess Mr Frawley, The Plot Thickens: Birgit is the person that Samantha alledgedly stole $500.00 from. Ed, I wish I would have recorded the phone call I just received. Some stupid low life idiot just called stating he was Brandy's brother. I picked up the phone with a nice "Hello" and he threatened me saying " If you don't stop F#^%*&@ with us I will come up there and kick your ass" Best Regards Birgit Ed, I just called and ask for Brandy acting like I was a friend and when this Brandy started talking I knew it was her. That is the woman that has called me about the dog. Her mother grabbed the phone and I just stayed quiet to get more info. Her mother said that she doesn't know Sam but through the conversation she said my daughter Brandy used to hang around Sam but her real name is not Sam it is Kristen Walker and I forbid her to hang around her. I asked her then what the address is and she said she doesn't know so I ask to speak to Brandy and Brandy said that Kristen (Sam just moved 2 days ago to a different part in town. Brandy also stated that Sam is working on a new Web site www.gonetothedogs.freeservers.com should be up soon. God how stupid can they be? How would they know all this if they don't know the person? Look again Ed.. you need to pull YOUR head out of your ass, buddy.. You don't have no clue what you're talking about....... I am her brother and I help run the damn kennel ok? so get your shit straight AND LEAVE US ALL BE A NEW NAME: from Jessica at Tadpole1218@aol.com I find myself sitting here typing this E-mail and trying
to understand this total lack of communication between you and my family.
But apparently there has been to much disrespect and crudeness for me
to comprehend.. EMAILS FROM PEOPLE CONERNING SMITH (JESSICA, CAROLINE) Ed: A F(r)iend forwarded me a link to your "Samantha Smith is a Real Crook,"thread. What a mess! IIRC, she used to post on the germanshepherds.com board, but was kicked off for misrepresentation, when her various web sites were uncovered. I used to wonder what her point was. It's pretty obvious now, eh? I suspect she's back on under a new assumed name. It's bloody hard to beat the nutcases on the Internet, as it is so easy for them to operate. But you already knew that, didn't you? I wish you luck in trying to stamp out her operation. Lots of luck, sir! Dennis Novak Currmudgeon Mr. Frawley, I was amused and not so surprised when reading your article on Brandy Ratliff. We also live in South Carolina, near Greenville and we oftentimes foster GSD for rescue. I had gotten an email not too long ago (about 4 months ago) from Brandy wanting to foster dogs for us. I told her about the screening process, etc... and having to visit her home before I could allow her to foster any animal, but that I had one male that could be a possibility. But, Surprise, Surprise, as soon as I mentioned he was neutered and all are before leaving us, we never heard back. And of course I was there when she was causing quite a ruckus on the germanshepherds.com web board. Very scary. I do know she has another website out there that isn't listed in your article but I can't for the life of me remember where I saw it but I will look for it and let you know. Good Luck in getting out the info on her!! Sincerely, Hello, Well besides having to block her screen names after a while I was getting thretening emails about my dogs. Finanlly it stopped well recently someone informed me that someone had been stealing photos from my website. So I checked out the website well Low and BEHOLD... there on her HOME PAGE A photo of a litter from my male and female Unit Gymor, and Aslan v Haus Degener. I was sooo ticked I wrote the person well.... as soon as I saw they were from "SOUTH CAROLINA" and when she wrote back with her litter MISPELLED CRAZY letters I new it was her. I wish so bad I would have saved all the letters for you to see how nuts she really is. I hope someone can prosocute her someday soon she really needs to be behind bars. "StarPromise3381@aol.com" is her new name. And she is signing Kristin. Well good luck in getting this girl, and if you need any other info please dont hesitate to ask I will do what I can. Here website was http://www.townsendacresdogs.8m.com Thanks Shanna Moses GermanSheps18@aol.com Timber Ridge's German Shepeherds
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