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Yea that is all I got when I tried too??
 
I will try something different. I cannot tolerate abuse.

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Former kennel owner headed to jail for probation violation

By Cortney Casey
C & G Staff Writer

ST. CLAIR SHORES — Spared jail time after a guilty plea on animal cruelty charges in 2008, Lorri Nichiow-Brubaker wasn’t so lucky the second time around.

Macomb County Circuit Court Judge David Viviano sentenced Nichiow-Brubaker, 50, to 90 days in Macomb County Jail after she pleaded guilty Feb. 18 to violating the terms of her probation.

Nichiow-Brubaker was given five years’ probation in July 2008 after pleading guilty to three counts of animal cruelty-second offense, a two-year felony, in connection with an April 2008 raid on her Sterling Heights facility, Lornich Kennels.

Police returning four escaped horses to Lornich, located on Mound, discovered dozens of animals living in appalling conditions. They reported finding dirty and inaccessible drinking water and food mixed with feces.

Officers returned with a warrant a few days later and seized about 70 animals, mostly dogs, which were taken in by local veterinary offices and rescue agencies.

At the time of her 2008 sentencing, Nichiow-Brubaker agreed to relinquish rights to Lornich’s animals and surrender her kennel license. Viviano allowed her to retain a few personal pets, but forbade her from reapplying for a kennel license and purchasing or selling any animals during her probationary period.

Assistant Prosecutor Michael Servitto said the probation violation charges materialized after a sheriff’s deputy and a probation officer learned that Nichiow-Brubaker had a handgun in her Sanilac County home and had taken a trip to Florida.

Possession of a firearm and leaving the state without permission are against the terms of her probation.

“She was not supposed to have any weapons,” said Servitto. “She indicated on the record that her son had used this handgun, this pistol, and had left it at her house. But, again, it was in her bedroom closet, and she acknowledged that she had purchased the handgun.”

Nichiow-Brubaker also had several pets in her possession, which appeared to be contrary to Viviano’s orders, as some were animals she’d acquired since the July 2008 sentencing, said Servitto.

During the July 2008 hearing, Nichiow-Brubaker told Viviano that she’d brought relatives in and hired staffers to assist after an aneurysm, heart attack and stroke left her bedridden.

She said she thought the animals seemed OK. “They were fine; they looked healthy,” she said. “As far as the eye could see, everything was being done properly.”

But, she added, “I should have looked after the animals better.”

Amber Sitko, president of All About Animals, one of the local organizations that helped care for and find homes for the creatures seized from Lornich, was present for the Feb. 18 hearing.

“We were pleased that she’s actually going to jail,” she said. “Hopefully, she finally learns a lesson.”

Sitko has been an outspoken advocate of stiff penalties for Nichiow-Brubaker, organizing letter-writing campaigns and speaking at the kennel owner’s 2008 sentencing.

“She’s gotten off very lightly, in our estimation,” she told Viviano in 2008. “I think she should go to jail and suffer. I think she’ll be more comfortable in jail than those animals were at her house.”

Sitko said Nichiow-Brubaker and her family “mocked” her after Sitko became choked up as she spoke of the animals’ plights during the 2008 hearing. She requested a sheriff’s deputy to escort her from the courthouse Feb. 18 after Nichiow-Brubaker reportedly confronted her once more.

“I was walking out of the courtroom, and she did it again,” said Sitko. “She stuck her finger in my face and said, ‘Now I mock you,’ and had a big smile on her face. I have no idea what this woman’s going to do.”

The animals taken from Lornich continue to have ongoing issues. Several remain with foster families because social and/or physical problems have made them difficult to adopt out, said Sitko, who herself has become de facto owner of a malady-ridden bulldog rescued from the kennel.

Stuart Pinsky, Nichiow-Brubaker’s attorney on the latest charges, did not return phone calls for comment by press time.

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There also was another case in Johnson City, Tennessee, where the owners claimed to be
robbed and Dobes were taken, all a hoax, they found dogs in ditches in the crates starved to
death. This stuff just gets me going, I just can't stand it and how cruel people are.
They need to be punished to the max in my book.
 
There also was another case in Johnson City, Tennessee, where the owners claimed to be
robbed and Dobes were taken, all a hoax, they found dogs in ditches in the crates starved to
death. This stuff just gets me going, I just can't stand it and how cruel people are.
They need to be punished to the max in my book.


complete agree with you, we need some law changes when it comes to animal cruelty.
 
There also was another case in Johnson City, Tennessee, where the owners claimed to be
robbed and Dobes were taken, all a hoax, they found dogs in ditches in the crates starved to
death. This stuff just gets me going, I just can't stand it and how cruel people are.
They need to be punished to the max in my book.
OMG. I think I remember that one, is that what happened to them all? !! I can't understand that kind of cruelty. It's just unbelievable.
 
That is horrific. Some people just scare the heck outa me. There needs to be better legislation on this.

i AGREE. i HAVE A PICTURE OF AN OLDER MAN WITH A HAT ON SMOKING A PIPE BY A WOOD STOVE
ALONG SIDE HIM IS HIS DOG, THE QUOTE UNDERNEATH SAYS "THE MORE PEOPLE I MEET THE MORE I LIKE MY DOG"
I love it and how true it is. People are soooooooooo cruel. My Dad worked with the criminally insane for over 40
years, he used to say if you knew who your neighbor was you wouldn't go out the front door. He worked at
Center for Forensic Psychiatry, half the things in this world that happen we never even hear about.:no2:
 
It is a framed picture, it belong to my Dad. I will see if I can find something for you

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YES I HAVE:sign0061:

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I can't find the picture of the man and dog on the net, mine is framed.
There are bumper stickers too, go on the net and look at the more people i meet the
more i like my dog. Sorry-_-
 
I do not understand how people can mistreat animals. For me, I cannot abuse or mistrust something that depends completely on me for their care like my dogs do. Some animal curity laws need to be made stronger or enforce. I am all for animal welfare and making sure that they have food, water, and shelter; their basic need items to survive. (Wheter it is an inside dog or an outside dog (chained or kenneled)). I do believe that chaining can be down properly and it is a affect way on containing an animal if it is done right. I do not see it as abuse. Some of the animal right people and animals activist take things way too far. I am for animal welfare; not animal rights. They are animals, not humans, and should be treated so. (Sorry for rambling again. I am just in a rambling mood today, I guess LOL)
 

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