I think of Pam Baine every single day when I see my 8 year old lab suffer in agony. This is my second Pam Baine Hunter's Gem labrador retriever. I got my first one in September 1998, at 5 weeks old, and she lived for 11 years, but she had Progressive Retinal Atrophy (PRA) and started to go blind at age 5. She was completely blind by age 8. When I told Pam, she lied to me and said that she just found out that one of the dogs in the lineage had PRA, and that an unscrupulous breeder in the area knowingly bred that dog to one of hers. She said 3 others from the litter went blind too. She said it wasn't her fault and that as soon as she found out she stopped breeding the dog. I loved that dog more than anything. In 2010, when I was ready to get a new puppy, I really wanted it to have some connection to my last one (obviously, without the PRA gene). I contacted Pam, and returned to her house in Norco to see her current labs. The modest, pool-less, yard I remembered from a dozen years earlier had been transformed with a beautiful pool and professional landscaping. She had many more dogs than before. If I had researched online, I would have seen some of these complaints against her, but for once I didn't do that. (Lesson learned.) I ended up buying another puppy from her. That dog has severe elbow dysplasia in BOTH elbows. She has had 3 different surgeries over the years (costing at least $4000 each time), years of physical therapy, years of multiple daily medications, and now she needs another surgery. She also has a condition that vets have called "Shaking Head Syndrome". It looks like a seizure. Thank God it doesn't seem to cause her pain or put her in danger of becoming injured. Reading all of these stories about people with similar problems with Pam's dogs makes me sick. How could this supposedly God-loving person have caused such EXPONENTIAL HARM to both the doomed animals she brought into this world and all of their owner families who have loved them and done everything in their power to relieve their suffering? All for what? A few hundred more dollars per puppy? So she could have that pool? How many millions of dollars have been spent trying to help these dogs? I had read that Pam's operation had been shut down due to so many law suits. I saw that her house was foreclosed on and that pool was filled in with dirt. I read that she was living in a trailer on her mother's property. I thought this was over. I cannot believe it is still happening. I pray every day that this woman gets what she deserves. I can't imagine a punishment that could possibly come close to the damage she has instilled. She should not be allowed to OWN an animal, much less breed them. She should be in jail for all of the pain she has caused, not just physically, but financially and psychologically. Please do NOT perpetuate her destruction. Even if you are lucky and escape the *** the rest of us have been through, you will still be contributing to this by supporting Pam financially. The photos attached are from her 2nd surgery in May 2015 and her third surgery in October 2016. It takes at least 6 weeks to even walk more than a few feet. No ball, no fun, no stairs. And never as good as new. Prognosis = deterioration for the rest of her life. Don't let this happen to you.