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LENA, La. (KALB) – The law firm symbolizing Cypress Arrow Kennel and K9 Academy’s owner, Tina Frey, has released a statement on the animal abuse allegations surrounding the Lena schooling facility. In it, Bradley Drell of Gold Weems Bruser Sues & Rundell Law Firm claimed that Frey is “innocent of any claim of animal cruelty” and claimed the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Business is likely “overboard” in its investigation surrounding viral video clips of dog mistreatment at Cypress Arrow.
Drell stated that on Friday, Aug. 12 he arranged for RPSO to meet with Frey at his business.
“Four deputies interviewed my client for around two and a 50 percent hours,” Drell shared. “The RPSO was supplied my client’s mobile cell phone, as very well as the mobile phones of my client’s boyfriend and her daughter, Victoria Brimer, and they have downloaded all of the contents.”
Drell additional that on the afternoon of Monday, Aug. 15, somewhere around 15 deputies came to Cypress Arrow to execute a lookup warrant, which is attached down below.
“They not only seized leashes, collars, and quirts, but desktops, information, together with individual fiscal data, and even my client’s home security recordings that have very little to do with the kennel,” Drell said. “The scene resembled the FBI at Mar-a-Lago.”
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The research warrant was for two counts of aggravated cruelty to animals, which are felony prices. At this time, Frey has not been arrested or charged.
“The message circulating on social media that the Sheriff is by some means sweeping this scenario below the rug is entirely false. Alternatively, the RPSO has long gone overboard on this situation, despite the point that my customer has cooperated with them absolutely considering the fact that their investigation commenced,” Drell said in the assertion.
Drell also shared information about how the viral videos received to the public, saying that they were being “surreptitiously made by an staff who circulated these movies practically a person week following she was terminated from Cypress Arrow on August 4.”
“Revenge for her firing appears to be to be this previous employee’s major drive in releasing these video clips and in calling shoppers of Cypress Arrow,” Drell stated.
In the statement, Drell shared that Cypress Arrow was shut down Saturday, Aug. 13 “due to the videos that went viral on the world-wide-web,” adding that as of Friday, Aug. 12, only five dogs remained at Cypress Arrow and ended up either picked up by their owners or taken to a local veterinarian by the weekend.
“We experienced informed the RPSO of these information but they did not problem a press release as they indicated that they would,” Drell stated. “The posts on social media that there are continue to canines that belong to consumers on the premises or that Cypress Arrow is even now in operation are absolutely wrong.”
The statement then moves on to statements about Cypress Arrow’s operator.
“I want to unequivocally condition that Tina Frey has never harm or hurt a doggy in her care,” Drell claimed. “She is a highly regarded canine coach and is qualified to practice other trainers. She is an qualified in the Cane Corso breed, and it need to be comprehended that this breed of doggy was initially bred by the historical Romans as military puppies. Weighing over 100 kilos, they have the likely to be pretty unsafe to human beings if not qualified appropriately.”
Drell then lists scenarios of Cane Corso canine remaining violent, which includes an incident in California where a pet dog attacked and killed its proprietor. An additional case in point from Drell from the United Kingdom states that a Cane Corso “has a chunk as solid as a lion” and killed a tiny baby there.
A single of the viral movies from Cypress Arrow showed a Cane Corso named Fenixx being pulled from two sides with leashes whilst she was constantly hit with an object. KALB spoke with Fenixx’s house owners, who shared that they “would’ve never ever stated yes” to education like what is proven in the movie. In Drell’s statement, he can make particular statements about Fenixx’s treatment, sharing that the video “creates a bogus impression that pet dogs are remaining hurt.”
“While the video is disturbing for numerous to enjoy, what desires to be recognized is that Fenixx at the time was trying to chew via a leash, which would have permitted Fenixx to chunk possibly Ms. Frey or her daughter,” Drell stated. “Ms. Frey was working with the quirt to direct Fenixx away from biting by way of the leash.”
Drell connected a movie to his statement, exhibiting Fenixx’s owners finding the dog up from Cypress Arrow on Friday, Aug. 12, which is hooked up underneath.
In it, both of those Fenixx’s homeowners and Frey strike by themselves with the item employed to hit the dog in the video clip, called a quirt. Drell statements that “while the quirt will make some sounds, it is flexible and not painful.”
“While I comprehend that quite a few folks sense, and some fairly strongly, that the use of the quirt is not what they would do to suitable a puppy, the use of the quirt is not inhumane under the law,” Drell reported. “Fenixx was in no way injured, as is shown in the video clip.”
Drell finished the assertion insisting that Frey is innocent.
“Tina Frey is innocent of any declare of animal cruelty. No costs have been introduced and we await the conclusion of the RPSO investigation. If fees are brought, I will vigorously protect Ms. Frey,” Drell reported.
KALB achieved out to RPSO for comment about Drell’s assertion and have been informed the business is continuing its investigation.
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