Every dog rescuer’s worst nightmare occurs when the dog or dogs they work so valiantly to rescue, end up in the wrong hands or worst case scenario, dead. Yogi and Bullet were two male pit bulls rescued from Lisa Lewis Hendren, a well-known North Carolina dog flipper after a suspicious house fire at her home on September 17, 2015. They, along with 4 other rescued dogs, were sent to boarding at a vet in Thomasville, NC for two weeks. All the dogs rescued were extremely undernourished, had skin issues, sores, and all were terrified. Due to the high cost of boarding, Angie Allred moved the dogs to her groomer Lauren Hardy of Kustom K9 Grooming in High Point for continued boarding.
Angie did a fundraiser to cover the food boarding and the required heartworm tests. On October 4, 2015, Lauren asked to adopt Bullet and said she knew of another family friend that was interested in adopting Yogi. On October 24, 2015, the dogs were adopted into their prospective new homes under the condition both dogs would be neutered within 30 days and proof submitted. Neither Lauren nor Yogi’s new owner followed through with this.
Around mid-December 2015, things began to unravel when Lauren stated her dog Tucker was not getting along with Bullet, and the family that adopted Yogi could no longer keep him either. Yogi was brought back to Lauren, but when Angie Allred asked for updated photos of both dogs for a Facebook page, only photos of Yogi were supplied; none of Bullet who should have still been residing with Lauren Hardy were included. And, Lauren never made mention of the need to get Bullet re-homed.
On January 3, 2016 Angie was taking another dog to Lauren for boarding and asked to see Yogi and Bullet while she was there. Lauren stated they were spending the day with her brother. When Angie asked again about seeing the dogs on January 5 she was given the same story – that the dogs were with her brother. Then on January 7, 2016 a Facebook post stated Yogi and Bullet had been re-homed. This was all done without Angie’s knowledge or approval. And to further add to the suspicion already surrounding the whereabouts of Yogi and Bullet, it was discovered that Lauren gave the dogs to a female named Elisha LeBaron Carranza on December 27 2015, yet lied to Angie on January 3 and 5 saying the dogs were with her brother. She did not divulge the name of the woman she gave the dogs to until February 9; almost two months after the dogs were out of her custody. She gave Angie Elisha’s address on Wayne Avenue in High Point, NC but advised she did not have a home phone to call.
Angie could contact Elisha by phone at her work place. Elisha assured Angie that she had an appointment to have the dogs neutered the following week; gave an email address to send the adoption applications to and agreed to a home inspection. By February 25, Elisha still had not sent in the adoption applications for both Yogi and Bullet nor had she arranged the home inspection. When Angie messaged Elisha on Facebook she alleged she came home after being out of town for five days and found her back door open and both dogs missing. However, no police report was filed to corroborate this story nor was animal control called to see if the dogs were there.
A message from two witnesses gave the indication that something more sinister had happened to Yogi and Bullet, and Elisha invented the burglary lie to cover it up.The two witnesses Megan Justus and her boyfriend Jacob Ryan Oldaker, stated both dogs were found dead in Elisha’s home in late January 2016; cause of death unknown and both dogs were cremated in a bonfire. Elisha denies these allegations and thinks her ex-boyfriend Todd Gainey is involved in their disappearance. Todd Gainey refuted this by saying he had seen the dogs in Jacob’s vehicle and that Elisha and Jacob were romantically involved.
The plot becomes even more murky when Animal Control Officer Holly Lackey went to Elisha’s home on February 25, 2016 to see if Yogi and Bullet were still on the property. She advised Angie she had seized four dogs from the Wayne Avenue address due to animal cruelty sometime between December 2015 and January 2016, but none of the animals seized were Yogi and Bullet. One of the dogs removed from the property was an emaciated pit bull and another dog that had almost hung itself on a leash.
Something is going on at Elisha’s property. Animals are allegedly being abused, sold and possibly killed. And to add to the mystery, Elisha LeBaron Carranza and those that claim to know the whereabouts of Yogi and Bullet all have criminal records. Per one of Elisha’s arresting officers, Officer Plount there is a strong likelihood Elisha sold the dogs for profit as she has had many charges of larceny in the past. Disturbed by this news and worried about the welfare of Yogi and Bullet, Angie Allred solicited the assistance of High Point Police Department and Animal Control; none of whom are willing to help find Yogi and Bullet.
High Point, NC Police Department Attorney Brian Beasley responded to Angie’s email on March 17, 2016 with the following.
“I appreciate your concern for these two dogs. Certainly if we could prove that the owner neglected them or was cruel to them in violation of the law, we would rush to charge her. But we would be required to prove the neglect and cruelty in court beyond any reasonable doubt. Unfortunately, based on the information provided to me by ACO Holly Lackey, we do not have nearly enough evidence to make a charge and no leads that have not already been followed up on.”
Since Yogi and Bullet disappeared Angie has been running into brick walks trying to get assistance from law enforcement and animal control but to no avail. Lauren Hardy is refusing to cooperate with Angie by telling her the whereabouts of the dogs, and it has been alleged that Lauren may have profited from the sale of the dogs. Why would a person who works with animals at her own business Kustom K9 Grooming willingly give two dogs who have already been abused to a known criminal? It does not make any sense.
Angie Allred just wants the dogs back safe, and has even offered a reward for their return with no questions asked. For updates on Yogi and Bullet and if you have any information on their whereabouts please visit their Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/Finding-Yogi-Bullet-High-Point-NC-975185599202242/.
Someone needs to investigate the grooming business, too. Sharing with prayers that these two precious dogs are found, safe and sound!
The whole bunch is nothing but liars and these dogs are victims of ALL these people – they should NEVER have been put with any of them starting with this Lauren person who obviously had inhumane intentions – yet this Angie person sent another dog to her – what the hell is wrong with all of these people whom I believe none had good intentions from the start. This is one holy hell of a mess and the only ones to suffer are Yogi and Bullet.
No this Angie did not give another dog to the adopter Lauren Hardy. Babylove was boarded for 10 days with Lauren Hardy and was picked up on Jan. 13 and transported to Dogs Deserve Better Rescue in VA. If you read the story I did Not know Lauren Hardy had given the dogs away when Babylove was taken to her for boarding. I asked to see them and she lied to my face Jan. 3rd & Jan. 5th
The whole lot of them are liars and dog abusers! I hope they burn in hell for all eternity!
I SWP in hope someone knows something and they r both found alive if not then justice needs to be served for them too baby’s.
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In my case my sisters dog was given vetted services as she was indigent att the time. I my husband lost his job and she referred me to HhFHh in Lavern AZ and they neutered my dog and shots and chip to other. I Never got my dogs shot records or tags come to find out chips and tags at Maricopa county dog pound she the director of Caring Hearts non profit and HHFHH for profit registered both the chips and tags in her non profit alias and back to my sisters dig. I She refused to give up the chip number and refused to comment and or help in any way as she collar tagged dogs with her info of contact number. I t was our Jack Russell Terrier which Dads gate was found left open Jimi gone. I am And fake sightings calks from people not even located in the neighborhood which(was discovered after background was run on numbers) this director C. W. Literally shut her phone off refused calks from dad, husband sister police. I was told she has the right to tag in her name since her sooner driven non profit paid for vetting. She steals dogs and resells them. Operstesunder a ruse and has conflicting non profit org One legal other self proclaimed non profit all at the support hub of her targeted social class the homeless or AND indigent pet owner and their pets immediately suffer mentally and physically by being regimes and fostered over and over as these pets will always be searching for their family. At least for the next several several months. Which (They( the rehoming thieves are feeding the spay and neuter clinic they are connected to which are federally repaid and reimbursed by numbers of operations and the same shelter’s underground locations rehome charging a fat fee any missing dog(s) they get their hands on and jump right on the lost and found dog ads, by recruiting these poor animals feeding the non profits they assemble and then resell after the fact leaving what I certainly question the criminal and civil liability disdain for the laws in AZ. Pets and animals are legally your property in AZ and the laws are in place.
The undergroud HhFHh all surfaced posing as advocates actually condoning the actions she took by placing animals in her name and Corp name but questioning the actions taken by me and my sister in insisting she hand over our dogs chip info and his location in a publically well populated blog forum Craigslist and neighborhood linked online forums, by having a person contact me and threaten me with lawyers and told me to remove the many blogs and comments and exchanges completely or there will be no search for my dog none of these large numbered affiliated crooks (individualized underground secret rehomers &fosters) would never give up the location or demand this woman relinquish any info to help find our wonderful loving JRT.
And he is still completely vanished from the face of this Earth, poof gone!
Sidebar when having my own animal scanned for chips I got the info and she has over 200 dogs listed with her name on the information as owner and that is just the chiuauah breed.
Now looking into lobbying for cause to gave the lost dog huge $$$$ industry of rehoming and fostering and eventually adopting out these owned dogs never seeking out or publically looking for families and reuniting them. Of course by now I hope anyone reading this will realize if the legal owners are found the ability to make non taxed cash only results of illegal adoption and federally funded medical procedures would be expoentially decreased and what would be left for the secret society of animal lovers would be thousands of pit bulls, chiuauahs,and mutts which are slaughtered and sold to research like pigs . And the unregulated and untapped financial arena of non monitored animal saving pretentious business could be rerouted back into the find the hones these animals truly belong to and have plenty of room for the poor babies sold to a suffering hideous death of becoming euthanised or shot up with rabies serums to explosion to further test rabies serums and vaccinations for the unscrupulous big pharmacy testing facilities. I would welcome anyone to join my drive to truly advocate for the innocent animals with any ideas to work to get this off the ground funded and operational in all fifty states infiltrating and moving for change in prosecutionatory measures and accountability and to begin investigations and present guidelines new laws monitoring these abused non profit corps and to also have the proper amount of taxes paid and those parties exposed and publically held accountable to both the owners of the animals and the organisations that have been emotionally and financially taken advantGe of reimbursed respectively.
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tam and rhonna church
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What a fiasco! How will these dogs ever be found dead or alive! Those POS’s pictures need to be shown!