Thoughts on "The Traveling Horse Witch?"

If she can’t follow through on basic LLC paperwork, there’s no way she has a trademark.

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I went back to search to verify, and it appears that after it was pointed out in this thread that her LLC had been dissolved for not filing the required paperwork, she must have jumped through the necessary hoops to have it reinstated.

Hey THW, we’d still love to see your actual degrees and massage therapy licenses :smirk: since you/your flying monkeys/houseguests are following along.

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Her business (LLC) was dissolved for nonpayment. She is watching this. Good that she reinstated. It was dissolved for non payment TWICE

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Since she’s basically dropped THW since this thread went up this thread is no longer doing the job of alerting people who try to Google her. If the OP cared to, they could also tag the post with her name and alternate business names, and edit to add that the thread gets interesting further down Right now she’s doing basic SEO by losing the name used here. @Lunabear1988

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Honestly, it looks like some of you, who have no first hand knowledge her work, are on a campaign to damage to her reputation (and possibly even the reputation of other trainers and vets who work with her) based on the comments of a couple of anonymous posters with some sketchy claims.

If you have personally had a negative experience with her, god speed, but I wouldn’t want to launch a crusade against anyone on a public message board unless I was 100% sure I could back up my claims.

For the rest of the COTH posters, getting drawn into a conflict between people you don’t have experience with is not smart. Especially when you don’t even know who some of them are.

The truth will come out if there’s any truth to it.

Just keep it factual —stating that your intention is to damage someone’s reputation, and giving a blueprint for it, is probably a bad idea :grimacing:

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I see it differently. COTH is a very good forum with international reach to warn people about horse related frauds. There’s enough evidence here that people should take into account before they shell out thousands of dollars for a short course with some unaccredited and shady about their qualifications. Obviously if someone reads all this and thinks it’s fine, they can proceed. Reporting truths about a practitioner is not ruining someone’s business or reputation. They are doing that for themselves.

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Calling someone a fraud can be libel. Just be sure is all I’m saying. I’m not sure she’s a fraud. I think she’s a little clumsy but I definitely can’t say I know her to be a liar or someone who hurts horses with her work. Those aren’t things I’d say lightly without first hand knowledge. Just some free advice!

ETA: Also the “evidence” you’re citing here is mostly the word of an unhappy client who hasn’t identified herself. Not strong evidence! There’s some screenshots of some stuff CL herself said that might show people some useful information with which to draw their own conclusions about her knowledge and competence, but definitely nothing that shows she is a fraud or a danger IMO.

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From reading the thread, I’ve seen at least 4 unhappy clients and one has for sure identified herself.

Just sayin’

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“Not strong evidence.”

What the what???

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Let’s start with credentials.

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I was thinking the exact same.

I don’t know anyone with actual credentials that is unwilling to share them, especially in an educator role. It’s extremely suspect yet she chooses not to share them and clear up any confusion like a professional typically would. Why? Likely because she is misrepresenting herself and her qualifications. It would be different if the subject were basket weaving, but we are talking about the health and well-being of living creatures. If she is misrepresenting her qualifications, people should know they are being misled.

It does not help that she is seemingly lying about trademarks and potentially other information.

Many red flags here. Just because one person doesn’t see them as red flags, doesn’t mean everyone should just shut up about it.

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Usually when something erroneous goes up on COTH the person mentioned jumps in to clarify. In this case, clarification would be stating what her qualifications are, why there was conflicting data on that, and where her professional licensing sits.

Crickets.

She did renew her actual business license after that was pointed out as lacking.

When I catch a socalled professional who wants my money out on big lies about who they are and what they know, that’s a huge red flag. And when they announce they have no training or credentials they are just naturally inspired, that’s another huge red flag. Etc.

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I think sometimes we (general) just have to use some common sense though.

It makes far more sense that the person refusing to provide proof that they have any of the education or credentials that they say they have, that also appears to start a smear campaign on anyone who does not bow to their greatness is hiding more than the unhappy customers who are admitting they spent a bunch of money on something and then learned the hard way that it did not seem legitimate.

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FWIW, the LLC lapse doesn’t bother me. That’s just a paperwork issue.

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True. But here it’s part of a larger picture

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Inflammatory comments made in attempt to thwart multiple first hand experiences shared here by way of accusing those who have chosen to protect their identity for sound reason by someone who is also anonymous. Alright then.

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I started to type basically the exact same thing and then gave up. That poster doesn’t want to hear anything that doesn’t jive with their very rose-colored worldview :rofl:

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That in and of itself wouldn’t bother me, but there is a definite pattern going on of advertising things that are not true, so that’s just another straw for the camel’s back. And much easier for her to fix (as we saw) than running out and getting an actual doctorate in nueropsychology :smirk:

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I was also interested to stumble across this thread when doing some searching various phrases (because as @Scribbler pointed out, she’s doing basic SEO by getting away from using the TWH moniker):

It started similarly to this one, but a few other overseas clients also gradually became aware that “the emperor has no clothes” (sorry for not crediting the poster who applied that phrase but this thread is getting unwieldy!).

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@Lunabear1988 can add THW’s name to the title of the thread if the business name keeps changing.

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