PLEASE HELP ME GET PUPPIES BACK FROM KIMI PECK AND CHIHUAHUA RESCUE!!

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From: Julie Feiner
Subject: HELP ME GET PUPPIES BACK FROM KIMI PECK!!
Date: Saturday, November 7, 2009, 9:02 PM

PLEASE HELP ME GET PUPPIES BACK FROM KIMI PECK AND CHIHUAHUA RESCUE!!

A DESPERATE PLEA FOR HELP TO ALL RESCUE GROUPS!!

My mother is an irresponsible pet owner and despite my constant pleas
to have her dogs neutered, she allowed her tiny, nine-year old
Chihuahua to get pregnant. The poor, sweet dog died shortly after
giving birth. I took the puppies from my mother, and a friend and I
bottle-fed two puppies, around the clock, for eleven days. I went
online and found Chihuahua Rescue and remembered seeing a rescue event
that they’d hosted years earlier. Their website was impressive and I
thought it looked very reputable. I left a message on their hotline
asking if they had a lactating female so the puppies could nurse from
a real mother dog. Kim Maggio, who works with president Kimi Peck,
called me back and told me yes, they had a lactating dog with only two
puppies and they would take them. My friend had gotten attached to the
puppies by this time and was considering keeping them, but we both
desperately wanted them to have the experience of being loved and
nurtured by a real mother dog. I told Kim Maggio I would only give
them to her under the agreement that we would get them back sometime
after they were weaned, if we decided we wanted them back. I told her
I would donate $200 to Chihuahua Rescue for letting the puppies nurse
from their mother dog, and if we decided not to take them back,
Chihuahua Rescue could adopt them out to loving homes. She initially
resisted giving them back to me, but when I told her that was the only
way I would let her take them, she finally agreed. I never signed any
contracts or documents relinquishing the puppies to Chihuahua Rescue,
our agreement was completely verbal.

Kim Maggio had me meet her in a grocery store parking lot in Santa
Clarita, refusing to allow me to see where the puppies were going to
be living. She claimed the woman who was fostering the mother dog was
in a private home and she couldn’t be bringing people there and
disturbing her, but promised that she would email or text me photos of
the puppies and possibly videos, so that we could see them with the
mother dog and the environment they would be in. Every week or two I
called and she assured me how great the puppies were doing, told me
details of their progress with the mother dog, but kept "forgetting"
to have the woman who was fostering them take photos because they were
so busy with their rescue work. She promised to do it next week, then
the next week, then the next. I kept in contact with her regularly,
and sometimes she returned my phone calls and sometimes she didn’t. I
trusted her and believed her, and felt the puppies were being well
taken care of.

In September I finally got through to her again and asked her how the
puppies were doing and she replied “Oh fine, they’re doing just fine.”
I told her that they should have been weaned by now and that we
decided we wanted them back. She suddenly got hostile and angry and
yelled "Well, you’re not getting them back!" I reminded her that that
was our agreement, and she refused to speak with me anymore, gave me
Kimi Peck's name and phone number, then hung up on me.That's when I
started getting scared and realized that I should have done my
homework and thoroughly researched Chihuahua Rescue before handing the
puppies over to them.

I went on-line and my research led me to Kimi Peck and Susan Marlowe,
CPA (accountant for Chihuahua Rescue). I read horror stories of dog
hoarding and neglect, saw the citations and court papers, and read how
the Los Angeles' shelters refused to give dogs to Chihuahua Rescue,
Kimi Peck, or anyone associated with her. I also read disturbing news
stories about Chihuahua Rescue's accountant, Susan Marlowe, and her
relationship with an accused animal hoarder named Cynthia Gudger. In
one of the articles, Kim Maggio's name was also mentioned.

According to the news stories, Kimi Peck was also in severe financial
hardship, operating an illegal kennel with over 200 animals, and was
having trouble paying her mortgage. Even though many people referred
to Ms. Peck as an animal hoarder, I still held hope that given her
current situation, she would have no choice but to give the puppies
back to me.

I spoke with Kimi Peck. She assured me that the puppies were healthy
and fine, and told me not to believe what I read on the internet, it
was all lies. She said she found good homes for the puppies and was
just waiting for them to be big enough to be neutered. I told her I
wanted them back, that was our agreement, and Ms. Peck told me that
the (birth) mother dog had died (which I was somehow responsible for),
and the puppies were alive, so obviously they were better off with
her. This went back and forth until she finally said she’d give me the
puppies if I gave her $3,000 to reimburse her for the puppies’ vet
bills. I told Ms. Peck that not once during my many conversations with
Ms. Maggio, did she ever mention the puppies being adopted out, or
being so sick that they needed $3,000.00 in vet services.

I pleaded again and again with her to give me back the puppies. While
I listened to her rant and rave endlessly about her accomplishments as
an animal rescuer and how she's considered one of the top rescuers in
the country, I realized she had no intentions of doing that.

I figured I had one last shot and that was to call Susan Marlowe.
Susan Marlowe is not only Chihuahua Rescue's CPA, but she is also
supporting Ms. Peck by allowing her to live on her property in
Tehachapi. She claimed that she had seen my puppies and they were fine
and healthy and that I had two very special little dogs! She told me
not to believe what I read online, that it wasn’t true, and that Kimi
Peck never allows dogs to live in cages. When I pleaded with Ms.
Marlowe to help me get my puppies back, she then claimed that she
wasn’t on speaking terms with Kimi Peck, and was trying to distance
herself from her.

I am sick with worry about the puppies’ welfare and the suffering they
may have endured under the care of Chihuahua Rescue. If they are still
alive, they have most likely spent their entire lives in the little
carrier we handed them over in, and the “lactating mother dog” story
was all a scam to get the puppies from me to satisfy their “hoarding”
sickness.

ALL I WANT IS TO GET MY PUPPIES BACK! I work as a dialogue editor in
the film business and know nothing about the rescue world. I am
begging for someone, anyone, to help me. If you know Kimi Peck or work
with her, or volunteer for her, or know someone who does, PLEASE
someone talk to her and persuade her to give them back to me. If you
can help me to achieve this, I give you my word that those puppies
will be loved, coddled, pampered and adored for the rest of their
lives. Please forward this e-mail to anybody and everybody that could
possibly help in getting them back to the safety of my home.


Sincerely,

Julie Feiner

323-620-7852
email: julie...@yahoo.com