Complaint Review: Katie Ashby - Roy Utah

 While I did not enjoy my experience with this individual I realize that my statement may have been overly harsh so I am publicly retracting it.

 Contacting my lawyer then I will get something up

To: Wendy Corbridge, Wendy Davis, Faith Hadrian

Date: June 22, 2016

Subject:  Public Retraction of Slanderous Statements

As it seems that the site might not allow the removal of a post, I do formally request that you post and attach on ripoffreport.com (and any other posts on the other websites that you have posted to, including “Arctic Rescue” on Facebook) a “public retraction”.

Katie Ricks

Legendary Service Dogs

I have contacted the site and that is as much as I can do

Wendy, it is not my desire to hurt you or to cause damage upon you.  Your rights to free speech are undeniable, as is my right to refute your claims with truth and facts.  Free speech ends when unfounded and untrue claims are proclaimed to be truth.

You were planning to purchase a puppy from a breeder that I had recommended.  On Friday May 13^th, 2016 the breeder that owned the puppy that you were interested in, requested that I do additional work with the puppy in regards to socialization and puppy handling.  The breeder brought the puppy to me at my residence for the requested training.  The puppy was left in my care at 1:01pm (MST) and was returned to the breeder at about 6:45pm (MST).  At the time of the puppy’s return to the breeder there was no apparent injury to the puppy.

Wendy, I contacted you on the evening of Friday May 13^th, 2016 for the purpose of informing you of the puppy’s progress in preparation for you purchasing the puppy and for you being the principle trainer for the puppy’s training to become a service dog.  When I returned the puppy to the breeder’s residence there were no concerns expressed neither by the person receiving the puppy nor by any of the other witnesses present.  

There is no concrete evidence that my dog “Rainier” caused any injured to the puppy that you were intending to purchase, whose name at the time of the incident was “B’Elanna” and was subsequently changed to “Katara”.   

I have been informed that you purchased the puppy in question on the morning of Monday May 16^th, 2016 prior to her being examined by a vet.

What investigation have you done, if any? 

You have made assumptions and accusations in an attempt to accuse me, my service dog “Rainier”, and you are attempting to harm my business and the many satisfied clients and their dogs with unfounded claims about the conduct of my service dog, myself and the professionalism of my profession as a service dog trainer.

Remove and discontinue any and all of your scurrilous and slanderous statements and accusations towards me, my service dog “Rainier”, and my life’s passion in my business - Legendary Service Dogs.  Your compliance to this order is appreciated and will be assistive in preventing legal action.

She's now threatening to come after me legally if I don't take this report down. Ok, so 1) I don't know how to take down the report even if I wanted to and 2) there's such a thing as freedom of speech. I am done with this incident. My only goal in putting up this report  was to make others aware and to try to keep it from happening to someone else in the future. I was completely devestated by what happened to my puppy and ended up having a complete disassosiative episode the other day that I believe stemmed from all of the stress that has built up from this incident. I can't handle the stress any more. I am done