On 4/3/03 I had a horrific auto accident leaving me in the hospital for a few months.  Upon my arrival home I needed someone to drive me to all my doctors appointments and therapies. I had hired one girl who was soon fired and then hired Teresa Wellman.  All was going well or so I thought until May of 2004 when my bank teller insisted I get Internet banking and handed me a password.  The password sat on my desk for a few days then one night I was bored so decided to see what it was all about.  I began cruising through my checks and came to a name I did not know.  Now granted, I was brain injured but I do know every person I write a check to. My mother looked over my shoulder to view the name and said she too did not know who the person was but said that is not your signature, which I had not even noticed.  I went through the rest of my checks to find about $2000 worth of forged checks mostly made out to Mrs. Wellman herself.  Upon finding this out I insisted she return my dog Ardeche Hazmat to me and she wanted me to sign some paper stating I would not press charges.  This did not happen and the following day I went to the bank and went through the prior periods checks to find yet more and then they sent all the checks since she was employed by me and I also checked into my credit cards and it totaled around $11,000. Then I had to go through the huge task of pressing criminal charges of which no county wanted to take responsibility for and finally Marion county did, this took hours of work. Once this was done it was a breeze and she was finally arrested on January 11, 2005!  I had called to see if the warrant had been issued and it had but they were going to wait until she got pulled over for something to arrest her. This did not set well with me so when I inquired how to expedite this they said if I could call them and say she was home and they would go get her. I had a friend of mine from CA call and she was home and they arrested her! So now we go to criminal court then she goes to jail! This woman has also taken a stud dog from its co-owners and not let them utilize him at all and she has the guts to actually sue them when she herself has not put a dime into him, she forged one of my checks to pay for her part.  She is in court with another co-owner suing for the dog also.  So her deal is obviously she needs the money gets it from people calls them co-owner and then sues them, pretty sad.  She has also sold a dog to a man and his family who wanted to get into showing who has a luxated patella.  Now this dog was older when sold (about 4 years old) but Mrs.Wellman forged the vet certificate (along with 16 other dogs papers) for her registration so the papers were voided, now if a real vet had seen this dog he may have seen the luxating patella. She called the new owners a few times and but has yet to make good on hollow promises of taking the dog to a vet or any refund.  I guess we will never know what they could have contributed to our breed.  All in all this is an evil woman who none of you should ever be involved with."

Mrs. Wellman has been suspended from the JRTCA for a period of three years due to her forgeries of approximately 17 sets of registration papers

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