Posted by Fred Hassen (fredhassen) on September 14, 2008, 12:11 pm, in reply to "Outrageous!"

Excerpt from this link with Steve Leigh and Voodoo Lou: Louie States: "His website also includes the same sort of nonsense about Ed Frawley, owner of Leerburg Kennels and Donn Yarnall, the founder and head trainer of both the LAPD K-9 Narcotics Unit and the LAPD Patrol K-9 Unit." I'd like to comment on this. Practically everything on Steve Leigh's site concerning Donn Yarnall, has to do with me as well. Here is a link to the page that takes you to the various Yarnell articles written by Leigh. http://www.sl-prokeys.com/wffcw/indexmenu.htm#yarnell Besides some comments by Leigh that are more than obviously sarcasm, and a second grader would notice that, all of the info regarding 'Yarnell' and myself are very, very, very, very, very, very accurate to say the least. In fact the only inaccurate thing is the spelling of 'Yarnell'....the correct spelling is 'Yarnall'. In fact, I personally contacted Mr. Leigh years ago to inform him of this misspelling, and he was aware that it was misspelled but he kept it on there anyway. Donn Yarnall spent quite some time running his yapper about me, even though he had never seen me actually train a dog, so when the time came that we actually did get to accidentally meet on the same field http://www.sl-prokeys.com/wffcw/ya_vegas.htm What Mr. Leigh reported here was actually off a video tape of the event that was sent to him. It is very accurate, besides Mr. Leigh's funny comments. If anyone wants to know why this tape was never made public, it was my decision, and not Mr. Leigh's, since I was involved in the event, and I felt that the embarrassment that was upon Mr. Yarnall at this event,and with our staff, students and thousands of onlookers watching, that this should have been more than enough for Mr. Yarnall to learn to keep his mouth shut about things or people that he knows nothing about. I personally told Mr. Leigh, that for that reason, I never wanted to see that go public because I'm sure Mr. Yarnall has done some good in the police world, and all of that had nothing to do with my experience with him. Mr. Leigh kept his word, and never released the tape. There were thousands of people there though including my entire staff, the Las Vegas Marshalls office, radio stations, and humane society's from Las Vegas, and Behesha Grist from Extreme K-9 was also there as she was going through our school at the time, so it's not like it was something done in a back alley. Mr. Yarnall knows the truth, I know the truth, and Steve Leigh knows the truth. I personally cannot say anything for a lot of other stuff on the site, because I wasn't there, but I have found Steve Leigh to be one of the most honest people that I have ever met, and yes, I have met him. He attended a seminar of mine a number of years back. For Lou Castle to imply that any of this stuff with Yarnall was made up in any way, shape or form, is rediculous at best. I believe there are also a couple of references towards me with accompanying text proof of emails with myself and Ed Frawley as well. None of that is altered, or less than 100 percent accurate. In conclusion, I cannot speak for the a lot of the other stuff on Mr. Leigh's site, as it has many things, and many pages of humor that I certainly have not had the time to read all of, but I have read a fair bit over the years. Maybe it's fair to say that Mr. Leigh is about 'out there', and has had a few problems in his life, as have all of us. It's also fair to say that maybe some of it is a bit obsessive also. Is it possible that Mr. Leigh got every single fact and link correct about me on this website and he just turned into a complete liar, and forged the entire rest of the website.........Not a chance. Let's make one thing perfectly, crystal clear, Mr. Leigh usually gets his facts more than straight, and if they were ever proven wrong, he'd delete it in a second. People that know me, know that I'm more than fair. I also have no problem with this being reposted, or reprinted in any way, or being placed on Mr. Leigh's site. Truthfully yours, Fred Hassen CEO/Owner/Founder Sit Means Sit Dog Training http://www.sitmeanssit.com/