If you mean Hillbank Kennels, then yes it is.

This is the one you're meaning I think

http://www.ourdogs.co.uk/News/2008/S...050908/ban.htm

As you have posted a link June, I will post the two I found in the Scotland Daily Record.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/lo...siness-2449900

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/lo...runner-2450123

Yes i knew the person who took over the kennels after her, the place was disgusting

Thats the way she leaves everywhere, full of excrement, rubbish and starving dogs she can't take with her, and she writes books about animal nutrition

Shocking reading! Wonder who is helping her out?

It's a sad world we live in, let us hope that this thread will come up on peoples searches and they will have the brains to look elsewhere but as I implied above some humans are so stupid.

Like the guy (in America) who went into a late night corner shop, held up the owner with a gun, and was dressed only in his underpants, when the Police caught him they asked why he was dressed only in his underpants, his reply was "Because the last time I got caught they identified me by the clothes I was wearing" doooooh

That was quoted in one of those tabloid articles you see from time to time, allegedly true, certainlly could be if my experience of people is anything to go by

Thanks for those links Malka, I've only had time to read the first which was enough for me, have to go now and try to forget all this, otherwise it will just go round in my mind and I'll start thinking horrible things (Like what I would do to her if we ever met face to face )

I am not sure if that was the same - Nadia took over the kennels that had belonged to a puppy farm and the papers (Sunday Mail) called that owner "Cruella" then Nadia moved in when Cruella was banned!! http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/sc...banned-1023232 that's the link to the Daily Record's bit about it.

Another piece on NC -

"Banned dog breeder back in business in Hurlford



Aug 8 2008 by Ian Russell, Kilmarnock Standard

A WOLF-DOG breeder banned from keeping dogs after being convicted of animal cruelty is back in business – at the notorious Hillbank Kennels.

Although self-styled ‘K9 Crusader’ Nadia Carlyle is using a different name – that of dead American porn star Paige Summers – she has been positively identified as Carlyle who was, according to the defence solicitor at her trial, living in a caravan without electricity or running water on a farm in Wales.

But by last week she had moved hundreds of miles away to the shabby house and kennels which have already made headlines north of the border and insisted she was Paige Summers.

The ‘real’ Summers was Penthouse Pet of the Year 10 years ago, but died of a drug overdose in 2003.

Carlyle, 34, who had denied nine charges of causing unnecessary suffering to 19 Utonagan dogs and puppies that were removed from her Gloucestershire home by the RSPCA, wasn’t heeding the judge’s advice to ‘take a clean break from keeping dog to reassess her position’.

She also has a post-conviction ASBO against her after pleading guilty to three breaches of a noise abatement notice following a prosecution by the Forest of Dean District Council in August last year.

Ms Carlyle, who is half-Italian and says she was once best man at a friend’s wedding, states on her website: “After starting to breed Utonagans I set up Utonagan Rescue and often have rescued and re-homed animals at my home.

“I am committed to converting as many dog owners as possible to K9 Bonding, as it is in my view the only way forward to happier dogs and a less stressful household.”

What she doesn’t reveal is that at Forest of Dean Magistrates Court in Coleford last month, where her year-long ban was imposed and where she was given a conditional discharge for three years, she was also ordered to pay £300 in compensation to David Pearse who took possession of some of her dogs when she moved.

He told the court that a bitch and pups were vomiting most of the way and continued to do so when they got home. They had parvo virus.

The bitch was ‘in a shocking condition and emaciated’ and couldn’t feed her pups because she had no milk.

During her trial, RSPCA prosecutor Martin Prowle alleged that Carlyle kept up to 30 dogs in filthy conditions at her small home. The animals were seized by the charity and police.

The judge was told that despite being taken straight to a vet two of the puppies died that day.

Carlyle said immediately after the trial that she was planning to launch an appeal.

But it seems she could be in a Scottish court soon no matter the outcome.

Police in Kilmarnock confirmed this week that Summers had been reported to the procurator fiscal here for keeping a dog that was a danger to livestock. It’s understood this relates to a recent alleged attack on a sheep owned by an Irvine Valley farmer.

Since then Paige Summers, as she insists she is to the authorities in East Ayrshire, has been visited again by police, SSPCA inspectors, the council’s environmental health department and a vet in the wake of complaints to EAC.

The raid involving all of the above took place on Wednesday, and came before Carlyle/Summers’ application to the council for a boarding licence for the dogs at Hillbank has even been considered.

Lorraine Niven, from Catrine, secretary of the British Utonagan Association, hit out at the confusion being caused by the Carlyle/Summers ‘identify crisis’.

“This woman has done nothing but harmed our society and upset our members for the last two years,” said Lorraine.

“The dogs themselves are good-natured wolf lookalikes, a rare breed, but one that is becoming more popular, despite people like Nadia Carlyle. We are disgusted at the treatment handed out to some of her animals in the past. She should be giving up any dogs she still has immediately – not trying to sell them for £600 each.”

David Mitchell, EAC’s head of legal services, confirmed on Tuesday that an application had been received from Paige Summers for a licence to board dogs at Hillbank.

“We are aware, from various sources, of statements made regarding this person’s history. We are in the process of making appropriate enquiries and the results of these will be reported to the licensing panel to enable them to make a decision.”

A WOMAN calling herself Paige Summers last week tried to sell me one of many Utonagans wandering about Hillbank Kennels.

The going rate? She is currently charging £600.

When I said that seemed a bit steep she made no offer to drop the price.

I had called at the property on the main Hurlford to Galston road on the pretence of being a dog-lover who had heard by word of mouth that there were wolfhounds up for sale.

Nadia, or Paige as she identified herself to me, asked me into the house which had little in the way of furniture or floor coverings. Immediately four or five Utonagans bounded in my direction.

Ms Carlyle, or Summers, ushered them away and showed me into the kitchen leading out into the back yard. There were more of the dogs there, she explained, and it was a question of what age and size I was after.

Well-spoken and neatly dressed, she pointed out that the Utonagan breed were wolf ‘lookalikes’ and she was keen for the dogs to ‘take’ to their prospective buyers who had to offer a good home.

The former co-founder of the Utonagan Club – her membership has now been revoked – welcomed my request to return later with someone who knew more about dogs than myself to complete a deal.

Studying some of the many photographs on Nadia Carlyle’s website and having met ‘Paige Summers’ in person, it’s simple for me to confirm they are one and the same person.

Hillbank of course has been in the news regularly over the last year.

Elizabeth Baird, the former tenant, has maintained pleas of not guilty to six charges of using a false description of dogs, and supplying animals with a similar description. The offences are alleged to have been committed between last July and November.

Baird, 47, also faces two charges of failing to appear at court on a previous occasion. She is due to stand trial at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court in two weeks’ time."

What a bloody mess. The saddest thing of all is that when I first met Nadia she had everything going for her. She had a lovely male dog, Iskote, who was almost as magnificent as my boy Hal.

She is a good example of how becoming over-dogged can drag you down. Which is why for now we are sticking with one dog - we have neither the time nor the money to be able to afford another dog. We could give a superb home to any number of sad Utonagan rescue cases, but it would not be right for the dogs. They would suffer.

Nadia is a perfect example of allowing your heart to rule your head I feel.