Letter from the Skunk Whisperer President

This is a letter posted by the President of the Skunk Whisperer on Facebook, 22 November 2011.

As President of The Skunk Whisperer, I would like to say a few words.

Ned does not feel comfortable with his niece watching “Ned Bruha: Skunk Whisperer” on Animal Planet. The same goes for the church folks that Chris’s family is part of. Neither are comfortable with children watching the show in general.

4,000 of you were Skunk Whisperer fans before our show ever aired. To you, our clients, our family, friends and everybody else – on behalf of our real Skunk Whisperer Tulsa and Oklahoma office owners and employees, Wild Heart Ranch and their crew, I would like to sincerely apologize for all of the vulgar language and behavior you have been exposed to on “Ned Bruha: Skunk Whisperer” on Animal Planet. Our goal was to make the show educational. Some of that DID come through, and we are very happy about that.

Through TV, we saw a fantastic opportunity to educate the world about non-traditional, more humane, no-trap, no-kill methods allowing wildlife to safely co-exist with humans. However, certain actions and behavior on the show have been shocking, overwhelming, hurtful and infuriating, not to mention extremely stressful. Most of all, we are fearful that the general public sees things such as sleeping in a customer’s backyard or openly urinating on a customer’s lawn (a sexual registry crime) as the way we operate in real, unproduced and unscripted life. We would fire an employee on the spot for doing a mere fraction of what was shown on the show.

Stormy was employed by production and was doing exactly what he was paid to do. Other people hear beeps when Ned is talking and see Ned laughing about Stormy riding a pony whereas, Ned was actually not there at that time but editing made it appear as if he was laughing in approval. Ned has received death threats because of his beliefs about wildlife control. Yet he continues to stand up for what he believes in; Ned’s integrity is second to none. Annette had one of her orphaned fawns that she was raising killed by gunshot multiple times to the heart right at her doorstep. Not everybody approves of our methods, as they may feel that, as our methods are more and more recognized by the general public, they threaten traditional wildlife control methods and their living.

In summary, the type of behavior I mentioned is not reflective of our business models and our missions, and is simply not tolerated, yet we cannot control what is filmed, edited, and being shown on TV.

As of now, and until the air clears, your posts on this page will be seen by nobody, including us. Comments will be seen by everybody and monitored. If you want to give constructive feedback for our TV series, please email us directly at info@totalwildlifecontrol.com. We will pass that over to our entertainment attorney and he will pass it on to Discovery’s lawyer; or, you can post below if you would like. Nothing will change unless the public demands it.

Regards,

Betsey Bruha, President
The Skunk Whisperer®, Inc.
Truly humane wildlife removal & prevention, done right the first time

Tulsa Animal Cruelty Exposed

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Ned Bruha, “The Skunk Whisperer®” publicly posts undercover video of felony animal cruelty & insists that authorities make over 2 dozen felony convictions

Fake image of a dog with it’s mouth sewn shut. Photo and Image Manipulation by Sherry Stinson | Tyler Creative

Tulsa, Oklahoma – November 28, 2011 – Rattlesnake roundups in Oklahoma are attended by thousands of people each year. At some of these events, rattlesnakes have their mouths sewn shut for photos with the attendees holding them. In a simple YouTube video, Ned Bruha, V.P. of The Skunk Whisperer®, Inc., an Oklahoma franchise company that does humane wildlife removal, compares this to a haunting and graphic photo of a puppy with its mouth sewn shut. In the “pit of death”, the snakes are deprived of food, water & shelter. Bruha takes a stand with undercover video & quotes Oklahoma laws already found on the books, & insists that Oklahoma authorities use the video evidence to make over two dozen felony animal cruelty convictions – from a simple YouTube video located here.

The dry, simple eight minute video encourages any “Average Joe” to stand up and make a change. Bruha says “Anybody with a camera and a computer can stand up and insist that folks do the right thing. The rattlesnake roundups can and will be educational, family events without felony acts of animal cruelty. Sewing a puppy’s mouth shut is not acceptable, so why is it okay to do it to a snake?”

Forty year-old Bruha, who has a TV series titled “Ned Bruha: Skunk Whisperer” on a major television network, first learned about rattlesnake roundups in the fall of 2010. “I ran into a photo on the internet of a rattlesnake having stitches removed from its mouth after being rescued or stolen from a rattlesnake roundup. I had never heard of such a thing. I got mad, and decided to stand up and do something about it instead of just whining”, said Bruha. Bruha and another gentleman collected undercover video from the events, asked a local photographer and artist to make a puppy’s mouth look like it is sewn shut in a photograph, and then had a simple YouTube video of it launched to the internet.

Contact:

Contact Person: Ned Bruha
Company Name: The Skunk Whisperer®, Inc.
Telephone Number: 918-261-4444
Email Address: skunkwhisperer@cox.net
Web site address: http://totalwildlifecontrol.com
Mailing address: 9521 B Riverside Parkway #343 Tulsa, OK 74137
Video address: http://www.youtube.com/user/theskunkwhisperer For additional information or higher resolution photo for television, email skunkwhisperer@cox.net

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Watch the Video Bruha Released