LeAnn Kissner, owner of Acclaim Performance Horses, is the type of horse breeder/owner/trainer that gives the horse industry a bad wrap. She lures people into her facility, gets people to believe she is honest, caring, and is taking good care of your horse (s). When in fact your animal is poorly fed, poorly taken care of, and sometimes abused. She cons people to let her keep the registration papers at her facility, for safe keeping; she does this in case you fall behind in board, or another factor that would require a means of payment, i.E. Vet bills, she will forge your name on the papers and take the horse to an auction and sell it. She will also drug horses to make them look sound for vet checks, and for showing the horses.
For several years I boarded my horse at LeAnn's facility. I also kept my horse trailer on the property. My horse trailer was always being used without my permission. I didn't have the title renewed because it was suppose to remain parked. Recently, I had the opprotunity to sell my trailer. When I asked where my trailer was, and all of my papers for the trailer, I was informed she forged my name to the title of the trailer, and titled in her boyfriends name (A.J. Luebke, General Contractor of Whitewater, WI). My trailer now gone, I have been forced to hire an attorney to fight to get my trailer back, and any other personal belongings I had at the farm. I was lucky enough to get my horse off the property before he was sold. I was never behind in payments, and always paid my board, and expenses in advance. When I removed my horse from the property, I had paid $1500.00 for my board, vet, and farrier services. The $1500.00 would have covered 12 months of board. I only used 3 months or $375.00, and was never refunded the remaining $1125.00.
Acclaim Performance Horses is the worse place to ever board a horse or have any other services done such as training, etc. Several people have taken their horses there for training, have paid for several months of training, and the horse was ridden on average two times per week, when the training was to be daily. There is very poor fencing around the pastures, and horses break out on a weekly basis, endangering the lives of the horses.
A true horse breeder, trainer, and boarding facility has written contracts protecting both parties. Acclaim will not put any agreements in writing, so that they can con people out of more money, steal property, or sell horses without the owner knowing until it's too late. This is also a person, that has conned one of the boarders to being a partner, when the woman came into a large sum of money. She was able to get this person to pay for a new barn, indoor riding arena, and purchase several very expensive horses for her kids to ride and show.
The partner has been scammed for over $500,000.00! And doesn't even realize it, because LeAnn has made the person believe that she will have a state-of-the-art boarding, training, and breeing facility. There are over 40 head of horses on the farm, with less than 10 being boarders. Several people are on a payroll, with no money coming in and the partner is paying for all of these expenses. This person is a fraud, lier, and a theif. She has scammed many men out of money also. When they don't give her what she wants she moved on to another one. The only one she has completely fooled is her partner. Acclaim Performance Horses also has a 4-H club running out of her barn, called the Stable Stompers.
The kids are forced to ride her horses, and if she doesn't want them, or the family members to be a part in the club any longer, she and her kids force the members out of the club, by every means possible. She will only allow people to have horses in her club, when 4-H is suppose to allow kids to have the chance to show anything from ducks to llamas. She is know to be very nice to people to their faces, but as soon as they walk away she turns face. Anything that is discussed in confidentiality, will eventually be made public news, and is not affraid to use your private life for her amusement. The people at Acclaim Performance Horses are also extremely racist to any body who is not caucasion or American, especially to blacks. These owners feel they are above and better than anybody affiliated with them. They treat people with very little respect, also. For the safety of animals or even people this is a barn that should be shut down.
In the early spring of 2007 LeAnn purchased several horses from a barn in Kewauskum, and one of the horses had infectious strangles. The disease took over the property, over half of the horses were infected in just a matter of days. She refused to acknowlege the fact it was one of the new horses that brought in the disease, and blamed it on a farrier, nearly destroying the farrier's reputation and business. Any of the "good show" horses were not infected, were vaccinated, and the others were left to suffer with the disease. Three horses nearly died, a vet was never asked to treat the sick horses, only to treat her special horses. The sick horses were hidden in an old run down barn.
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