Inquiry az rodent supply-kurt Allen Duffy Ladd(aka Duffy Ladd).unethical business Practices.

[Wilomn]

I have a lot to say about this situation, Duffy Ladd, but i can't do it here. My name is Deb, I own Deb's dragons and I am really really sorry about the fact that i finally got to read all of these posts about this. If you want to hear my story, it is long. But, I am the one who introduced reptiles to them and their families back in 2010 He was my photographer and friend, and she and her husband were our friends, or so I thought... She was my best friend, and I didn't see it coming, but I was a big fool, and I am humbled in retrospect. I have never posted and i hate being on the computer, but after being alerted to read this, I just had to post. They never had any reptiles prior to 2012, or 2011. He started doing gigs last year for me and was working for me doing gigs until last week. I found out that he had started a business called jurassic jungle while he was working for me and it broke my heart, because it was so deceptive. The story is long, but ends in me finding out that Duffy is not who I thought he was and Kim just became weak, and when I confronted them and asked if they were doing it, Duffy became violent and began yelling and pushed and threatened my fiancee, and police were called, and I fell apart. But, I am starting over and being more aware of my "friend" surroundings, and my business. I have loved reptiles my whole life and my story is real. When I read the "about" on Jurassic Jungle, it says he and his family have been doing this for a long time, but it's not true, and he is not the person I thought he was. I am naive for not seeing that. I will see clearer in the future. I learned a lot from reading the posts, mainly from all of you who saw the truth and didn't back down. It forced me to see the truth and really face it. I thank you for that. I have been doing animal shows for kids for 12 years now and last week was the first time I thought that maybe I should quit doing this, so, Duffy, if you are listening, you hurt me, and you hurt a lot of people by your words and lies. I still think you can make this right by just telling the truth about these issues. I always have believed that there is good in everyone... Until there just isnt. Then, it's like the movie "ghost" where the black figures just drag you away. Be bigger than yourself and do what is right.

Put up a rating on Yelp and let anyone you can know about him. Does he have insurance? If not, put that on there too.

 

[HerpVenue]

I love their "Corporate Events" Page and how they say it is their specialty. Yet as you can see, each and every single picture is downloaded off the internet from some other people's website. Then he had the audacity to use Adobe Photoshop CS6 to put "his" logo on someone else's pictures.

As a "photographer" he should be very well versed on copyright infringement laws. So, he is either not well versed or he is a crook that just does not care.

And anyone who has knowledge of what he is doing but continues to associate with him is condoning his behavior and should be avoided as well.

 

[Dennis Hultman]

First off Neither Kim nor I posted any post on Craigslist or replied to any email. This We have made that perfectly clear and will be handled properly in the courts. As to reply to Toms comment I was not referring to seeing the post on Fauna I was referring to your comment about the rats. I had not seen the posts until Tom emailed us directly. Its been over three weeks since you were here and you have not once called or emailed me with any problems. That being said None of my customers have made any comments to the contrary. Thank you for the input fighting false accusations on a forum is useless as everyone is entitled to their opinions. We will continue to raise healthy feeders and will be moving to a new facility in the month located near cave creek and bell rd. Please do not hesitate to contact me directly if you have any questions. we will not be posting further in the forums.

Let me help you with the truth. I hate to question your intelligence but you don't seem to understand that it isn't just that your email address matched.

By posting here from the same address as the emails, you just cemented it.

You should have just apologized instead of coming here and telling untruths.

Yep, untruthful and putting a logo on other peoples pictures.

You guys are real upstanding folks that anyone should trust doing business with.

 

[elena]

More stolen pictures. No need to use reverse image search when the thieves are this stupid.

On the page "Our animals 1" the very first image is of a Chilean rose-haired tarantula. I typed "rose hair tarantula" into Google and that very picture appears of the first page of images, minus the "Jurrasic Jungle" logo.

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/reptiles/spiders/rosehairtarantula.php

Photo © Animal-World: Courtesy Paddy Campbell

Then I tried "giant african millipede." Bingo, first page of images. From a PEST CONTROL website.

http://blog.ecosmart.com/index.php/2009/04/11/identifying-millipedes-types-of-millipedes/

Then, "jeweld lacerta."


http://www.xtremeexotics.ca/breeding-projects.php


My personal favorite is the picture marker "Moo, our 4 foot asian water monitor." First off, it's clearly a stock photo of a hatchling. In fact, it can be found here:

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-160...ard-varanus-salvator-on-white-background.html

But I think that this particular photo bests illustrates dishonesty because Duffy has NAMED the animal. He can't claim he is using this stock photo with permission because he was dumb enough to give an animal he's never laid hands on a NAME. And he's advertising that he will bring that animal to your kid's next birthday party.

I could keep going, but I think that about wraps it up.

 

[HerpVenue]

My favorite.

The attached picture below is the original. If you look at the screen shot of his website, the man all of a sudden has a different logo on his back.

 

[HerpVenue]

lower left.
Young Lady with white sunglasses holding an iguana is Sarah Gilpin.
She is NOT associated with this "company" in anyway shape or form.

 

[AaronSerio]

All the digging to find the stolen pictures is great but we only needed to look at how creative the logo and font is to see how much work he puts into this.

It has to be a copyright and licensing infringement. Especially considering there's a 4th movie on the way and the logo will be everywhere again.

 

[Lacherps]

Ritchie brought this thread to my attention, and I am glad he did. Clearly this is a very shady character, who I would never do business with, nor would I want to be correlated with.

The lower left photo that Ritchie linked to, is in fact me. It is a photo my husband, Andrew took while we were on vacation in December of 2010. This animal was found in the Keys, in the WILD. It DOES NOT belong to Jurassic Jungles....

Here is a print screen of the exact photo I have posted in my Florida album on Facebook. You can clearly see our image is watermarked, with OUR watermark. He didn't even take the time to attempt to edit our watermark out, he simply just slapped his watermark over it! Take another look at the photo that he has on his website to see what I mean.

People never cease to amaze me. NEVER once were we asked permission for them to use this photo....We are usually pretty easy going with letting people use our photos, IF they ask permission first. But the fact that they never asked, had the nerve to slap their watermark over ours, and then lie by claiming that that particular animal belongs to them is ridiculous. As a supposed fellow photographer, I would've liked to have thought that he would show some common courtesy and simply ask to use the photo. Also, the other thing that really bothers me about it is that I am in this photo. Don't get me wrong, it is never okay to steal a photo....but to take one with a person in the photo without that persons permission is a whole other legality issue.

I'm planning to send a message to him requesting that he remove it from his site. If this doesn't get done, we will pursue it further.

Sincerely,
Sarah Gilpin

 

[RichsBallPythons]

the facebook page


https://www.facebook.com/jurassicjungle.animaladventures

 

[Amelanistic Orca]

Wait'll a little 'rich' Scottsdale kid gets belted by a Giant African Scorp, or one of those large T's. Their parents are going to hang them out to dry with their large to 'real deep' pockets...

 

[bcr229]

SMH. They really need to do a better job vetting their employees.
Pet store brawl over 'proper reptile care' leads to two arrests, three taken to hospital

 

[Amelanistic Orca]

SMH. They really need to do a better job vetting their employees.
Pet store brawl over 'proper reptile care' leads to two arrests, three taken to hospital

What is the connection with Duffy Ladd?

 

[nickolasanastasiou]

What is the connection with Duffy Ladd?

Post number sixty of this thread connects the individual to the business.

Post number seventy-one of this thread references an abusive outburst at the business not directly involving that individual.