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This page is dedicated to stopping Prestige Collection and Michele Hetrick from cheating honest people.
We do not often dedicate a page to one individual, but we are making an exception to this rule.
During the last year and a half or so , CBB has published some of Michele's ( Prestige Collection, Biards' Bulldogs and tons more) scams.
We also noted that we have nothing against this individual but we do have a problem with the way she conducts business and treats honest un-suspecting people.
Michele has sold everything from APBT's to half hounds passed off as APBT's with false papers.
CBB is only stating facts based on what we know to be very true.
We ask that if you see this Scammer's ads anywhere , that you please report it to CBB.
Here is an e-mail between Michele and one of her unfortunate victims . This lady is demanding her money back from Michele after a pup she paid $450.00 for and never got has died in Michele's care, but Michele is not having it.
"Michele, Here is what I will agree to. One hundred dollars a month payments beginning on June 30th 2005 through September 30th 2005 due on the 30th of each month. The last payment of fifty dollars will be due October 30th 2005 for the total of 450.00. I will add no interest or any nonsense I have been advised is possible should I chose to allow a payment plan. I am only in agreeance with this payment plan because I know you have children and I never want a child to go without. Under these conditions and these conditions only can we resolve this without further legal involvement. I believe that if you had ever intended to return my money you would have made some attempt by now. You have had eight months and twenty one days since I was promised my money back. There has been nothing. Not even five dollars. I also do not think you intended on sending me my puppy because you obviously spent her shipping money as well or you would have been able to send that right back to me. I am human and I do understand at times money is hard to find but like you my family and I have to pay bills to live. You cannot chose to deprive someone else of what is theirs simply due to the fact that it is not what is easiest for you. My last point is that puppy depended on you and you allowed her to suffer tremendously. I am bothered by the fact that you never mention that in your writings on your site. Should you decide not to agree to these terms I will be on a visit with family June 8th through June 12th in your area and I will pursue this in a legal manner with the court system. Please feel free to write up a notarized letter with the conditions I stated. Please send me a preview of that letter for approval before signing/sending it. If I do not receive the approved and signed letter by June 1st 2005 I will assume that you do not intend to comply. I look forward to a timely resolution to this matter. Thank you". Michele's Reply
I can not agree to send you $100 per month. My income does allow for it. At the end, these puppies were here at my home for 2 1/2 weeks waiting for "your" truck driver to come and get them. No one ever showed. I heard nothing from you for almost 3 weeks I am assuming due to the hurricane and in that time your puppies came down sick with parvo. None the less, I DID NOT let these puppies suffer, I have record after record of vet documentation of treatment for them. The puppies contracted the parvo from the neighbors kennel which was at no fault of mine. In the time that I kept the puppy for you, you were full aware of the intial puppies' condition with her skin which by the way was misdiagnosed and was later found to be an allergy to fleas, something curable with Frontline. In this time I cared for "your" puppy with your $200 just as you would have had to if she were in your care. I made NO profit and could not help the fact they got parvo. As soon as I seen them throwing up they were taken into the vets office, they continued to deteriorate therefore I had them put down NOT allowing them to suffer. Your $200 for the puppy was used to treat the puppy from the time I received it. Your shipping money also went for treatment since no one could fly into the airport in your area due to the weather and you decided to send a truck driver to pick up the now "two" puppies I had offered you. I had fully intended to give both of them to you. If the puppies had been picked up a month sooner, none of this would have ever happened. Regardless of what you think, I have never sold a puppy and not delivered the merchandise. I make about $117 per week after taxes, my rent is $350 plus all of my other bills, if you wish to take me to civil court then so be it, but I have three children to take care of and the courts can only take so much of my pay per week. This will only result in more fees and a longer time for me to repay you. If I am forced to hire an attorney I will pursue fighting for a reduced amount to repay you as I kept your puppies for you for over a month when you could have driven here with the shipping money instead. You were fully aware of her condition and agreed for her to stay with me until she was fit and approved by a vet to be shipped because tou claimed you could not come and get her. Most kennels would charge and fee for food and medication if they still have possession of the new owners puppy. After puppies are paid in full the new owner should be there to get them in a timely manner, not a month later, once again, you knew completely of her condition. Whichever, I can not pay over $50 per month I simply can not afford it.
Michele
Note:: Michele is threatening to get an attorney and have reduced payments, all after she already spent this person's money. She is also stating that she has vet records, well Michele, you never produced these record to the purchaser or anyone else, so why don't you do us a favor and produce it to us.
Yes Miss scammer, show us where you spent $450.00 to have these puppies put down . Better yet , give us your Vet's telephone number we will seek the truth.
You would gain many points and raves from CBB if you can produce such. This is your chance "Prove it"..
Did you ever give her your vet's phone number?, give it to us we will find out the truth.
Michele you are noted for talking big but no evidence..
Go on girl, show people how happy your family is.
Keep up your lies about our members being thieves.. We don't see anyone else accusing anyone here.
While we are at it, we must say that we are now Ranked # 1, 3 Yahoo and # 1 MSN and many other major search engines just plug in SEARCH WORDS" bad breeders. "
These rankings may change from time to time but we are almost always in the top five.
There you go Michele, now the entire world is really seeing you.
We assure you that you will be stopped..
Again we say come clean or leave the dogs alone.
We again invite you to join us in our efforts to help these dogs and all animals.
While you do that, we will continue producing evidence and our evidence will be coming hot and heavy from this point.
We are not done with you, as a matter of fact we are only just starting for you and people like you.
We know that we have already hurt your business tremendously, now we want you out of business.
NOTE: We have tracked Michele for about a year and a half and she has lost about twelve "12" dogs to parvo and more to other diseases as seen by one of her conversations below.
She also tried to pass these dogs off as ADBA Registered. After pressure from CBB, she finally advertised them as CKC registered which was then correct. Thanks for all of you who sent us emails about the two different ads she had.
Just to let you all know we already had her number..
It is obvious that she was going to do some paper switching.
We have copied all of her ads where she had advertised the same litter as ADBA and CKC.
Below is this little merle's Dam, notice that she is almost completely bald, the redness on her chest indicating the advanced state of this condition. There is treatment for both kinds of mange, why did she let it get this bad??.
Not only does this pup below have mange, it and it's littermate died of Parvo. This situation is sooooooo sad that it makes me want to cry, it really does..
Advertising and selling all of these innocent dogs and not taking care of her Pack...All about the money.
 DO NOT DO ANY KIND OF BUSINESS WITH THIS HEARTLESS WOMAN.!!So many of her dogs have died in her hands, Many of those from PARVO.
Read this page carefully and you will see where one particular pup died of so many complications including starvation.
Here is the puppy that Michele sold.. ..Notice it's condition, huge gut, sad eyes and everything else..
 
We ask readers, would you even sell a puppy in this condition?
CBB believes that this is the same puppy or a littermate that Michele tried to sell to a lady from Pittsburgh who drove all the way to Illinois only to find a sick puppy, after refusing to take the pup, Michele agreed to pay her back a few days later, but never did.
Now she is back again on Pit Bull Classifieds advertising Neo her dog for stud.
VIEW HER AD HERE. CLICK HERE
Again she is mis-representing her dog, stating that he is 85 lbs and has a 23.5 inch head.
I personally saw this dog and he could not be more than 75 tops, and as for his head?
We again ask readers does Michele's dog appear to have a bigger head than this dog??
Here is a much bigger head than Neo's and advertised as a 23 inch .
Michele, please learn how to measure, though we would rather you not measure at all and stop breeding dogs.
Our plan is that you will not make another dollar from selling pups or studding Neo.
Neo is a nice dog, just in the wrong hands..
This woman knows how to pull people in, please don,t be scammed by her.CLICK HERE to see a 23" head, P.S Neo's head is advertised as 23.5", bigger than this dog.
Michele listen carefully,we will not stop until the whole world knows that you are a liar and a thief,
added to that you are such an animal abuser.
Come clean or quit having these innocent animals.
We will watch you as long as you have dogs, understand that, we are not going to let you kill any more of these animals if we can help it.
Go on, try to justify your actions by accusing innocent people.
Here are some of her ads in the past, understand that she did'nt breed most of these dogs, she goes around trying to make consignment deals with other kennels.. also notice her different names. Michele Gilmore
lickedtodeath@msn.com
http://www.hetrick.123ts.com/Home.html
http://beardspuppypics.1colony.com/
Prestige Collection
mybratsx3
Michele
Michelle
Bob Summerville
Beards Bulldogs
SOMEHOW THIS SEEMS LIKE A PUPPY MILL
American Pitbull Terriers are also banned in her city.
Sent: 9/10/2003 9:09 AM Brindle female pup, $300.. Mason/CarverWildside/Dangerzone FUll of fire, thick, healthy pup.. 13 weeks old.. Has shots & been wormed.. Pic below! 618-533-4599
From: Prestige_Collection_2004 (Original Message) Sent: 9/10/2003 8:42 AM Fat, healthy puppies ready in 3 weeks.. Black/bluies- 2 females & 1 male.. ADBA.. $400 (BIG)! Accepting $200 non refundable deposits on (3) blues due Sept 30.. ADBA..$600 Reds, chocolates & solid whites coming Oct 7th.. $300-$400.. beardsbulldawgs.1colony.com 618-533-4599
From: Prestige_Collection_2004 (Original Message) Sent: 8/22/2003 12:20 PM 1 male & 2 female available Mason/Carver ADBA $450 11 weeks old Beautiful! 618-533-4599 beards_bulldawgs@msn.com
From: Prestige_Collection_2004 (Original Message) Sent: 8/21/2003 12:58 PM 2 black/bluies for sale 1 male & 1 female.. ADBA $500 Mason/Carver Eli/Colby/Bullyson/Mt.Man Pics can be seen on our website: beardsbulldawgs.1colony.com
(1:11:19 PM): From: Prestige_Collection_2004 (Original Message) Sent: 8/16/2003 11:43 AM Beautifully marked pup w/ white socks. Mason/Carver/Wildside/Dangerzone $250 obo Email Us Directly At: beards_bulldawgs@msn.com
(1:12:00 PM): From: Prestige_Collection_2004 (Original Message) Sent: 9/4/2003 8:44 AM Mason/Carver/Watchdog 12 weeks old This pup is solid blue w/ white on his chest a short muzzle & thick build. Very intelligent pup! Pick of litter, must let go. $550 Located in Illinois.. Pics attached of pup and parents.. 618-533-4599 Serious Inquiries ONLY PLEASE!!
From: Prestige_Collection_2004 (Original Message) Sent: 8/12/2003 7:08 PM 1 yr old Chocolate/Red Nose Female Jeep/Crenshaw Ears Cropped 21 inches tall 55 lbs $400 see pics under AD Number: 2919 - Posted on: Jan 7,2004 Expires on: Apr 9,2004 Click on name to send E-mail
photo * Pit Bull Classifieds *
By: Michele To visit our web site Click Here!
Location: Southern, Il Phone: 618-533-4599
FOR SALE: 2 Black Tris Available
1 Male & 1 Female
Both Black Tri..
ADBA
$300 each or $500 for both..
618-533-4599
Here are the dogs she was selling, NOTE ::These puppies seems to be mixed with Hound or Rottie .
The guy that she got these pups from, clearly stated in the classifieds that when he sold them to her they had no papers. I clearly remembered that Michele had sold these dogs to a couple who then found out that they could'nt keep dogs in their apartment.
They called Michele back the very same day about returning the pups and Michele told them no!!
She told me that she would not take the dogs back for all the tea in China. She also told me that she did not have the money to give back to them. When I first asked Michele about these puppies she said they were off of Neo and another dog she had, but I soon found out differently, we then started paying closer attention to her doggy degrading business. Note that we asked Michele to come clean or we would expose her, but it seems she did'nt believe that we would.
 MORESlave Kitten is Michele.. another of her names, see a pattern here?
INVESTIGATOR:: slave_kitten_4u (8:09:36 PM): another one died
INVESTIGATOR: (8:10:14 PM): who died?
slave_kitten_4u (8:10:25 PM): another of patiences puppies
INVESTIGATOR: (8:10:29 PM): what from?
slave_kitten_4u (8:10:42 PM): malnutrition
slave_kitten_4u (8:10:44 PM): infection
slave_kitten_4u (8:10:47 PM): eyes
slave_kitten_4u (8:10:49 PM): and interna;
INVESTIGATOR: (8:10:55 PM): jesus christ !!
Patience mentioned above, is the female that she bred with Neo sometime around November 2003..
This woman has a history of not taking care of her animals, and since we have been watching her, she has always sold mostly other people's products.
Michele still does not understand that we will not let up on her until she quits. Her ads are constant reminders that we "MUST" continue with our fight for this wonderful breed Since we started, we have taken much pride in being honest to our readers, this means a lot to us and the survival of The American Pitbull Terrier .
CBB will continue to persue excellence for our dogs and from APBT breeders. Thanks So Much.
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