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Kimi Peck and Susan Marlowe will hopefully be behind bars SOON…just like their poor rescue animals. However, until this happens, animal ‘rescuers’ Kimi Peck and Susan Marlowe will continue to claim their apparent fraudulent activities and well, animal cruelty is something ‘made up’ because these two animal ‘rescuers’, claim they are victims of a witch hunt. They made this ‘witch hunt’ clear in the County Board of Supervisors and avoided questions about their illegal activities… Read James Burger’s blog

Peck at Supervisors Kern County Supervisors will hear the case of animal rescuer Kimi Peck in just a bit here. Kimi Peck and her attorney and a supporter are here for the hearing. Leave Comment Subscribe to comments Posted in these Groups: Topics: posted by Jburger on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 02:26 PM Report a Violation Viewed 23 times 7 comments from 1 users <Reverse Sort Order> 1 posted by Jburger on Jan 5, 2010 at 02:38 PM The hearing on Peck has begun. Engineering and Survey Services Director Chuck Lackey is making his report to the board. "We have determined that the keeping of approximately 170 dogs is not incidental to the use of the residential site," Lackey said. That means, basically, that the dogs aren’t there because Peck lives there but Peck lives there so she can keep the dogs there. That, Lackey said, is a violation of county ordinances. "She was informed that she could not keep the animals on the property unless she got a conditional use permit," Lackey said. Report Violation posted by Jburger on Jan 5, 2010 at 02:43 PM Peck told the county this morning that she removed around 40 dogs At the previous hearing Peck argued that the pets are her personal property, Lackey said, and that she is keeping old, injured and unwanted animals to live out their lives. That is, Lackey said, the definition of an animal shelter according to county law. "The housing of the animals has become the primary use of the property," Lackey said. To maintain a shelter on the property, Lackey said, Peck has to have a conditional use permit. But she has refused to apply for one. Even if the license issue is resolved that does not resolve the land use problems on the property, Lackey said. Report Violation posted by Jburger on Jan 5, 2010 at 02:58 PM Peck is arguing that county ordinances "Stop this witch hunt. Don’t make me sue you. Stop these fines now," Peck said. "How much did Michael Goland pay you." (Michael Goland is Susan Marlowe’s ex-husband and Peck has repeatedly accused county officials of being paid off by Goland to harass her.) Pecks calling the board corrupt and "unbelieveably cruel." "Just try and fine me," she dared supervisors. "try." Property owner Susan Marlowe up to speak. She said the ordinance allows the breeding and raising of animals is allowed on the property. Note: Peck said in the hearing that the animals are old and unlovely and are just on the property to live out their lives. Report Violation posted by Jburger on Jan 5, 2010 at 03:01 PM Marlowe said she has eviction proceedings started against Peck. Janet Wingfield, Kimi Peck’s supporter, is speaking. "I think she has been chased down like a rabid dog," Wingfield said. Report Violation posted by Jburger on Jan 5, 2010 at 03:07 PM "There is conspiracy against Ms. Peck," Wingfield said. Wingfield is accusing the county of conspiring with people who destroyed a water tank on Peck’s Water Canyon Road property. She’s accusing county animal control officers of falsifying court documents to try and get Kimi Peck. She and Peck both acused Supervisor Don Maben of vowing to get Kimi Peck in any way possible. Report Violation posted by Jburger on Jan 5, 2010 at 03:14 PM It’s back to staff. Ted James is speaking. He said Marlowe’s comments about animal breeding is in ordinances Before Peck left the Water Canyon Road property, James said, he and Lackey made it very clear that zone "She acknowledged that she needed to get a conditional use permit," James said. "There is no witch hunt. There is no sidestepping." Lackey said Peck is arguing that animal control regulations allow her to choose between licensing her dogs and getting a conditional use permit. But the county is arguing that she is violating land use laws — not animal control laws. They brought action against Peck, Lackey said, because "It appeared that Ms. Peck was ignoring our requirements to comply." "She moved to another piece of property and we started all over again," he said. He said they want Peck to keep the animals. But they also want her to comply with county zoning laws. Report Violation posted by Jburger on Jan 5, 2010 at 03:26 PM "We wouldn’t be here today if you had listened to staff and applied for a conditional use permit," Maben told Peck. "You picked a good location to move your dogs to." He called for a $5,000 fine against both Peck and Marlowe and an ongoing $500 fine against both – but freeze the penalty for 30 days to give Peck a chance to apply for a conditional use permit. "Why would I get a permit on a house I don’t own," Peck shouted from the audience. She said the house she lives in was sold at auction Tuesday morning. But Maben said he does not have that fact in evidence and can’t rely on it to make a decision today. County lawyer Bruce Divelbiss recommended that the supervisors might push back action on the issue until more information is produced. Peck just about got removed from the building by the Sheriff’s deputy in the back because she talked over supervisors and refused to leave the podium. There should be due notice for any buyer of the property, Lackey said. Supervisors delayed the issue until Feb. 9.

James Burger is a top notch writer for the Bakersfield Californian who continues to keep animal hoarders in the news in Bakersfield. For that, animal lovers THANK JAMES BURGER! Here is Mr. Burger’s latest article…

Animal "rescuer" continues to dog county supes BY JAMES BURGER, Californian staff writer jburger@bakersfield.com | Sunday, Jan 03 2010 02:17 PM Last Updated Sunday, Jan 03 2010 02:18 PM Peck’s current home on Bear Valley Road has a bad history. In July 2008, Kern County Animal Control officers found accused animal abuser Cynthia Gudger living in the warehouse on the property with a menagerie of starving cats and dogs. The building was piled with trash, feces and animal corpses. Peck’s accountant, Susan Marlowe, had allowed Gudger to live there under the alias Anita Gilbert and had helped Gudger get control of animals that had been seized from her in Hemet by Riverside County Department of Animal Services officers when she was living under the name Barbara Ryan. Gudger fled animal abuse charges after making bail in Kern County but was recaptured, returned to court and was ruled incompetent to stand trial before being placed in a mental health facility in April. Peck moved into the home in June. Tehachapi animal rescuer Kimi Peck will face a $5,000 fine and a $500-a-day penalty when she is called on the carpet before the Kern County Board of Supervisors Tuesday. She should be on familiar ground. Peck was fined $5,000 in July for exactly the same offense she faces Tuesday — running a kennel without a permit on land zoned for agriculture. She currently keeps around 170 dogs — mostly chihuahuas — in a home she rents from her Beverly Hills accountant, Susan Marlowe, on Bear Valley Road west of Tehachapi. That home sits just a six-mile drive from the multi-level house on Water Canyon Road where Peck had kept the dogs until June 23. Peck moved from Water Canyon to Bear Valley Road just hours before a two month deadline to get the animals off the property or earn a conditional use permit to operate a kennel there expired. If Peck hadn’t moved, she would have faced a $500-a-day fine for more than 60 days of delay. But county reports state that, within three days of Peck’s move to Bear Valley Road, county code compliance officers confirmed she needed a conditional use permit to shelter her animals there as well. The code enforcement process against Peck began all over again. County Engineering and Survey Services Director Chuck Lackey and then-Planning Director Ted James met with Peck in July and ordered her to get a conditional use permit. She asked them for more time to deal with the problem — at the same time she promised Kern County Animal Control Director Guy Shaw she would be moving out of Kern County with her dogs. "She had told me she’s moving out of the county," Shaw said at the time. "She told me that she bought a piece of property but escrow won’t close until August." But in late August, according to an Engineering and Survey Services report, an attorney representing Peck wrote to the county arguing that Peck was not in violation of any law. County officials wrote back, outlining the tax filings and evidence from various rescue websites maintained by Peck, that show she is operating either a kennel or an animal shelter on her property — both of which are a violation of land use law in the county’s opinion. That was the same evidence that convinced supervisors to fine Peck in June for violations on Water Canyon Road. County officials told Peck’s attorney she must apply for a conditional use permit by Oct. 1 or face further penalties. Peck did not apply for the permit. So county officials started the process of bringing the violations to supervisors. While that process was going on, Peck got in more trouble. Peck has argued, in the past, that she is simply an animal owner with a large number of dogs — an argument that, if true, would eliminate the need for a conditional use permit. County officials don’t buy her argument. But if it is true, then Peck is required to license every one of her dogs. She has, according to Shaw, failed to meet that requirement. In December, Peck was charged in Mojave court with nine counts of failing to license her dogs. In the meantime, Peck’s accountant and the owner of the Bear Valley Road property, Marlowe, has filed for bankruptcy, county officials report. On Tuesday at 2 p.m. the whole mess will come before supervisors. The engineering department is asking for the same fine they requested from supervisors in March and April — a $5,000 fine and a $500 a day penalty until Peck seeks a conditional use permit or moves. This time the penalties are also aimed at Peck’s accountant as well. Peck did not respond to messages left on phone numbers for her animal rescue organization

During a March 2009 Board Meeting wherein one of the topics was (drum roll) Kimi Peck’s illegal operation, Supervisor Watson could obviously see the reality of Ms. Peck’s illegal sanctuary and the way her animals were living. It was obvious that Ray Watson felt the same way many other people do about Kimi Peck…Here is what he said during this meeting:

Supervisor Watson: Well, first I think it’s it’s safe to many people want to take care of and rescue animals; however, I also believe that people have the right to enjoy their property in peace. And, I’m concerned about the issue of the Conditional Use Permit. Ah, to issue one is not solving the problems of the neighbors who cannot enjoy their properties. I think that if there is going to be a Conditional use permit it ought to be in a place where it is appropriate to have these animals. I think the facilities should be appropriate and by looking at all of the pictures that I have seen here, I think the conditions some of the animals are kept are inhumane. They may be, I’m not sure, how clean they are, or not, but the way these animals are being kept, I think is not something we ought to be licensing. I’m concerned about the motion in that we are talking about imposing fines and perhaps there is a source of revenue from a non-profit that allows these fines to be paid and allow the operation to continue as it is. I don’t think that should be allowed to happen. My question is, is there another remedy, an injunction of some kind that forces a change so that the neighbors can enjoy their properties? If Ms. Peck wants to continue doing what she is doing, she needs to do it in a place that is appropriate and under the right conditions, and I don’t think this is the right place or under the right conditions…

Exploiter hoarders seek animals to serve personal needs. They are indifferent to the harm they cause the animals. They deny there is a problem, and they reject authority figures. They have a need for extreme control. Exploiter hoarders come across as articulate, charming people who are good at manipulating situations and people to get what they want. They tend to have sociopathic characteristics and/or personality disorders. They will lie, cheat, and steal to get what they want. They show no remorse for their actions.

Seems like Ms. Peck can’t figure out how to stay out of trouble with the law when it comes to ‘rescuing’. Here’s just another example why we feel Kimi Peck should NOT be allowed to have animals.

PECK, KIMI MM067257A 12/07/2009, 09:00AM East Division – Mojave A MISDEMEANOR ARRAIGNMENT Criminal Calendar – Case Details criminal case information/calendar menu / search results / case details ——————————————————————————– Defendant Information: Name: PECK, KIMI Birth Year: 1949 ——————————————————————————– Case Information: Court Case #: MM067257A Filing Date: 12/02/09 Related Case #: None Arrest Date: N/A Bail Amount: N/A Bail Status: N/A Bail Type: N/A ——————————————————————————– Charges/Dispositions Count Type Code Section Charge Description Charge Disposition Disposition Date 001 M PC 597F PERMIT ANIMAL TO GO W/O CARE 002 M CO 7.08.030(E) FAILURE TO FURNISH INFORMATION ON LICENSE 003 M CO 7.08.030(E) FAILURE TO FURNISH INFORMATION ON LICENSE 004 M CO 7.08.030(E) FAILURE TO FURNISH INFORMATION ON LICENSE 005 M CO 7.08.030(E) FAILURE TO FURNISH INFORMATION ON LICENSE 006 M CO 7.08.030(E) FAILURE TO FURNISH INFORMATION ON LICENSE 007 M CO 7.08.030(E) FAILURE TO FURNISH INFORMATION ON LICENSE 008 M CO 7.08.030(E) FAILURE TO FURNISH INFORMATION ON LICENSE 009 M CO 7.08.030(E) FAILURE TO FURNISH INFORMATION ON LICENSE 010 M CO 7.08.030(E) FAILURE TO FURNISH INFORMATION ON LICENSE

In our opinion, these women, SUSAN MARLOWE AND KIMI PECK are just scammers and they appeared to have done something AGAIN to postpone the auction. Is what they are doing legal?

Kimi Peck throws judgment at everybody. Steals people’s dogs, puppies. Operates illegal kennels. Kimi Peck said on the news that she refuses to give puppies back to their rightful owner because Ms. Peck claims the owner is negligent. Ms. Peck criticizes people for abandoning their animals and claims that she’s the hero saving them. Hoardingchihuahuas believes it’s horrible to abandon animals. However, who is Kimi Peck to judge? Did Kimi Peck not abandon her adult sons when they were babies? According to one of her sons she did. It’s bad to abandon animals but it’s worse to abandon your own children. Kimi throwing judgment at others is similar to the POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK

Animal Control director, Guy Shaw, confirmed why many hoarders move to Kern County and set up shop. He also confirmed why he and many of his animal control officers should take some courses relating to animal hoarding. Mr. Shaw stated that Ms. Peck does not fit the description of an animal hoarder. In other words, Mr. Shaw claims that hundreds of animals confined to cages/pens 24/7 for the remainder of their lives is ok as long as the cages are cleaned and there is food/water….HELLLLOOOO, GUY SHAW…WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CRAP LIVING IN YOUR COMMUNITY!!!!! A hoarder is a person who has more animals than they can properly handle. Kimi Peck cannot afford proper vet care on all of her 200 plus special need dogs. She cannot properly exercise the 200 plus dogs confined to cages/pens 24/7. She does not have the proper amount of workers to properly care for the animals. She refuses to apply for the proper permits to operate a rescue operation even though she’s been collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations. She cannot afford to pay for individual licenses. Not to leave out that Kern County Animal Control has ignored many complaints regarding Ms. Peck over the years and when they do an inspection, they give her ample notice. Let’s hope that Kern County sends Guy Shaw to a different department and pray they hire a caring Animal Control Director who understands hoarding. Until then, Kern County will continue to be a HOARDER’S HAVEN…So, hoarders, you know where you are welcome…

See a similarity? Maybe people believed Peck’s BS in Burbank; however, check out the similarities in the stories. Here’s CBS Bakersfield’s story from today: Animal rescuer says she will end Kern County operation Story Updated: Nov 20, 2009 at 7:01 PM PST By Carol Ferguson, Eyewitness News Video BEAR VALLEY SPRINGS, Calif. — Animal rescuer Kimi Peck will end her operation and said she is now trying to place about 150 dogs elsewhere. Peck is now in a facility near Bear Valley Springs but said she will likely leave Kern County. "I’m shutting down the Dog Angels and Chihuahua Rescue immediately," Peck said. "I’m giving up my 501(c)3, and I’ll look back on the last 15 years as a horrible time in my life." As of Friday, Peck said she had more than 200 dogs at the facility. Friday morning, a group visited the large home and warehouse off Bear Valley Road. Peck said they were from Humane Society of the United States, but they immediately left when Eyewitness News arrived. Peck said they had toured the facility, and they’re ready to help. "They went through all the dogs, evaluated them, and they said they’re in excellent condition," Peck said. "They’re going to do everything they could to help me find other sanctuary for them." Contacted by phone in Washington D.C., Humane Society spokeswoman Rachel Querry said she had no knowledge of a group from her organization being at Peck’s place. Querry said she would check at the state level. Peck said the group will try to "come up with a plan" for two large rescue groups to take 50 dogs each, and she hopes another 50 can be placed with individual rescuers. Peck said she plans to keep 46 dogs she is close to who are old and not adoptable. Those dogs live inside the house, and looking through a bedroom window, Peck named off several dogs on her large bed. "I’ll keep the old ones and the biters," she said. Of the 150 dogs in the warehouse, Peck said many of them are also biters and very aggressive. She demonstrated, putting a fist near one pen where a couple small dogs bared their teeth. Peck said she had adopted out a couple dozen dogs in the past couple weeks. She listed some border collies and Australian shepherd puppies. A Los Angeles woman had contacted Eyewitness News, saying she had tried to adopt a dog from Peck. Robin Givens said she was met with continued delays as Peck required more paperwork. Peck said that dog was delivered to Givens in Beverly Hills on Thursday, and Givens confirmed to Eyewitness News that she did get the dog. Julie Feiner, also from the Los Angeles area, has tried for months to get back two small Chihuahua puppies that she turned over to Peck’s rescue. Feiner said the puppies were born to a small dog that had died. That dog belonged to her mother, and Feiner said she had tried to convince her elderly mother not to let the dog have puppies. Feiner hoped to save the new puppies and wanted Peck’s rescue to find a nursing mother dog. But, when she figured the puppies were probably weaned, Feiner said she couldn’t get them back from Peck. Peck said the two puppies had health problems, and there were delays getting them spayed and neutered. She refused to turn the puppies back over to Feiner. On Friday, Peck said the two tiny Chihuahua puppies had been sent "out of state" to an adoptive home. Peck had previously lived in a large home near Tehachapi where she had some 200 dogs. Kern County officials had ordered her out of that location, saying it violated zoning rules. County officials have been keeping an eye on her operation off Bear Valley Road, too. That house is the same place where accused animal abuser Cynthia Gudger was found with some 50 animals in filthy conditions in July 2008. Peck said the house is now in foreclosure, and she expects it will go to auction in a couple weeks. Asked if she will go someplace else in Kern County, Peck said "no." "I don’t belong in Kern County," Peck said. "It’s not my cup of tea." Peck said she’ll go back to writing movie screenplays, and she wants to end her time as a rescuer. "I’ll go back to my real life again, and try not to regret this experience," she said. Now go to the next page and read a story from the Burbank Leader in 2005…

Dog house is emptying, owner says Published: Last Updated Wednesday, August 2, 2006 8:05 AM PDT Mark R. Madler The owner of a controversial dog shelter is meeting a court order to reduce the number of dogs kept at her facility in preparation for a move out of the city, the woman’s attorney said in court Monday. But advertisement former volunteers say she is hoarding animals, and will continue to do so. Chihuahua Rescue owner Kimi Peck placed more than 100 dogs Sunday, giving them to foster homes and other rescue organizations, leaving her with only 88 dogs left, said Shannon Keith, Peck’s lawyer, who informed Superior Court Commissioner Kirkland R. Nyby Monday. Peck acknowledged that before the placement of dogs Sunday, she had 284 Chihuahuas housed at her rescue, but that is 50 more than the city’s limit of 234 dogs, said Burbank Police Lt. Bruce Spiers, head of the Burbank Animal Shelter. In June, Peck pleaded no contest in Burbank Superior Court to a municipal code violation of insufficient record keeping for the animals at her shelter and agreed to move the facility out of the city. Peck has an Oct. 26 deadline to shut down her facility in the 400 block of Moss Street. "I’m tired of rescuing," Peck said. "I’m retiring and I’m going to start a sanctuary. I do specialize in dogs that aren’t adoptable. Bring me a dog that’s 15 years old that has six months to live; that’s who I want to take care of." Peck and Chihuahua Rescue gained national attention in August 2003 when they took legal action in a case of 175 feral Chihuahuas taken from a ranch in Acton. A Los Angeles County judge later ruled that Peck’s group could have the dogs placed into foster homes rather than euthanizing them. Former volunteers at Chihuahua Rescue paint a different portrait of Peck — the former daughter-in-law of late actor Gregory Peck — as someone who hoards rather than rescues animals and keeps them in neglected and dirty condition. Former volunteers alleged that Peck is only placing animals now to satisfy the court order, but will continue hoarding them wherever she ends up outside of Burbank. Up to 350 dogs had been at the shelter at one time, creating squalid conditions, they said. Outside the Burbank courthouse Monday, a group of ex-shelter workers held up large color photographs they claimed were taken at the shelter showing multiple animals living in cramped feces-filled cages. Mark Hohne, a veterinarian who worked at the shelter, left after a year because he couldn’t take the smell of the dogs whose cages were not cleaned, he said. "She kept it clean initially to make it so I wouldn’t see what was happening," Hohne said. Peck counter-charged the volunteers were disgruntled people with an ax to grind and that she has adopted out thousands of dogs over the past decade. "This is misdirected," Peck said. "They should go after the breeders and the people who abandon and abuse their animals, not the rescuer who is merely a Band-Aid." The ex-volunteers were in court in hopes of getting Nyby to order Peck to put the remaining dogs up for adoption rather than just transfer the animals to another location. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was ready to begin screening of applicants who wanted some of the dogs, said Rene Barge, an attorney representing the ex-volunteers. Instead, after a nearly 90-minute wait, they witnessed an update on how many animals remained at the shelter and Nyby setting an Aug. 17 status date for the case. "I was hoping the court would take more of a stance," said Alissa Stohlgren, a volunteer who left the rescue facility last fall. "But we’ll be back."