00:00What's the wildest thing you've come home to find in your backyard?
00:02When my sister showed up at my door sobbing about her divorce and begging to move into
00:05my guest house, I gave her exactly one rule that she could never break.
00:07Sterling, my $40,000 golden retriever, had championship bloodlines that could be ruined
00:11by accidental breeding, so she swore on our dead mother's grave that no other dogs would
00:14ever come near my property without my explicit permission.
00:16I came home early last month from a canceled business trip to find three beat-up vans in
00:19my driveway and heard multiple dogs barking from my backyard.
00:21Walking around the side of my house felt like entering a nightmare when I saw some scraggly
00:25looking guy in a tank top holding my golden retriever by the collar and trying to force
00:28him to breed with a mangy German Shepherd.
00:29My sister was nowhere in sight, but this stranger had set up professional photography equipment
00:32and was recording everything while five other random dogs ran loose in my fenced yard.
00:35I yanked open the gate so hard it slammed against the fence and screamed at him to get his filthy
00:39hands off my dog immediately.
00:40The guy barely glanced at me before saying he was Kyle and my sister's boyfriend of two
00:43weeks who ran a premium breeding service.
00:44He claimed she told him Sterling was available for his business and that I was totally cool
00:47with using my champion for his breeding program that would make them both rich selling designer
00:50puppies online.
00:51I felt my blood pressure spike when I noticed he'd spread Sterling's American Kennel Club papers
00:54across my patio table along with his pedigree certificates and health records from my filing
00:57cabinet.
00:58He'd already filled out breeding contracts with forged signatures and had taken promotional
01:01photos using Apollo's trophies and ribbons as props.
01:03The contract showed he was planning to charge $1,500 per puppy with deposits already collected
01:07from buyers expecting litters within the year.
01:09I demanded he pack up his equipment and remove every single dog from my property within the
01:12next five minutes or I would physically throw him out myself.
01:14Kyle just laughed and told me the dogs were already in heat and needed to complete the breeding
01:17cycle which could take hours.
01:18He actually suggested I go inside and watch TV while nature took its course because disturbing
01:22the dogs now could cause psychological damage to their mating instincts.
01:25Then he asked if I had any puppy food because he forgot to bring supplies for when his bitches
01:28welped in a few months.
01:29My blood was boiling as I watched him flip through my private veterinary files and Sterling's
01:32competition schedule while explaining how he'd already posted ads on seven different
01:35websites advertising Sterling's stud services.
01:37He showed me his phone screen where hundreds of messages from interested buyers were flooding
01:40in offering cash deposits for future litters from Sterling's bloodline.
01:43My dog's photo was plastered all over backyard breeder forums with promises of championship
01:46genetics at discount prices compared to legitimate breeders who actually health test
01:49and screen buyers.
01:50I told Kyle he had exactly one minute to leave before I called the police and animal
01:53control.
01:53My voice deadly calm despite the rage burning through every fiber of my body.
01:56He smirked and said I should go ahead because dog breeding wasn't illegal and my sister had
01:59given him full permission as a legal tenant of the property.
02:02He said the cops would probably laugh at me for wasting their time over some harmless puppy
02:05making while his business was completely legitimate and licensed by the state.
02:08I dialed 911 and reported an active animal cruelty situation with unlicensed breeding and possible
02:12stolen dogs on my property.
02:13Kyle kept filming his disgusting operation while I gave the dispatcher my address and detailed description
02:17of what was happening in my backyard.
02:18He actually had the audacity to yell at me that I was cock blocking his dogs and ruining
02:21thousands of dollars in breeding fees while the dispatcher could hear everything he was
02:24saying.
02:25The police arrived with animal control officers who immediately recognized two of the female
02:28dogs from theft reports filed by devastated families three counties over.
02:31Kyle's face went pale when they found his van contained falsified health certificates and
02:34a list of 20 more addresses to hit that week for unauthorized breeding raids.
02:37The officers discovered he'd been running a multi-state puppy mill scam targeting champion show
02:40dogs whose owners were at work during the day.
02:42My sister pulled up just as they were loading Kyle into the police car on charges of animal theft and
02:46operating an illegal breeding operation across state lines.
02:48She screamed that I'd destroyed her chance at financial freedom and her future husband's
02:51successful business empire built on premium puppy sales.
02:53I handed her an eviction notice and told her she had two weeks to find another family member
02:56stupid enough to trust her.
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