Exposing NBAS

06/24/2026

The only real striking difference between the Miranda's Rescue scandal and the NBAS scandal is not the allegations themselves.

It is the response of the government agencies involved.

When serious concerns emerged regarding Miranda's Rescue, Humboldt County responded by bringing in the appropriate authorities and allowing investigations to proceed. Local, state, and federal agencies became involved. The focus is on collecting evidence, preserving records, and determining the facts wherever they lead.

The response from the City of Petaluma has been drastically different and purposefully so.

Despite years of complaints, documented oversight failures, Grand Jury findings, missing and altered records, and persistent questions regarding NBAS operations, the City has repeatedly resisted calls for an independent investigation. Indeed they actively shielded NBAS from public complaints. Brian Cochran and Peggy Flynn headed off any criticism of Mark Scott and NBAS with the full power of the government. They covered up for them. And they skirted FOIA laws to hide the truth. To the detriment of the public.

Even more troubling, the City allowed NBAS to leave operation of the shelter without first securing all records necessary to fully evaluate what occurred under the contract. The City had leverage while NBAS was still operating. The City had leverage through final contract payments. The City had leverage through its contractual authority. They never pulled that lever. So critical records remain missing.

That raises a fundamental question:

Why?

If City leadership truly wanted answers, preserving evidence and demanding records would have been the first priority. Instead, the public has watched years of oversight failures followed by a response that appears focused on limiting scrutiny rather than expanding it. Their efforts are to hide their own involvement.

The contrast could not be clearer.

Humboldt County pursued the facts.

Petaluma appears determined to avoid them.

The public deserves to know why one government sought accountability while the other continues to make accountability more difficult.

The innocent have nothing to fear from an investigation.

The guilty do.

06/24/2026

When you’re in the find out stage.

On June 23, 2026, Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal provided a...

06/23/2026

Sheriff is on the property!
Back hoe and ALL
Shannon Miranda allegedly shot and killed thousands of dogs in Fortuna,CA. All the while taking thousands of dollars from Bay Area shelters and beyond.
One down one to go.

06/18/2026

TODAY WE MUST DEMAND JUSTICE! 🐶
Flood these email boxes demanding they shut down Shannon Miranda!!
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Shannon is still on the property, I heard still accepting dogs(can’t verify this yet) He needs to be arrested! Please email and demand justice for these dogs!!
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06/17/2026

DING D**G THE GRIFT IS GONE!
Thrifty Paws in Cotati, Ca is CLOSED.
Was it the city of Cotati? NO
Was it the building Owner? NOPE!
It was the volunteer’s working realizing they to were part of Mark Scott’s SCAM. “It’s for the animals!”
What animals?
North Bay Animal Services LOST all their contracts ending March 31,2026.
Selling dog food in a thrift store while starving dogs in Clearlake shelter is another level of Karma.

06/07/2026

Greetings, traumatized rescues, shelters, and individuals laying in the Miranda’s Rescue dumpster fire. There is no case more painful, or perverted, than this one.

Anatomy of a Scam:

Con man/Psychopath + Zero Enforcement of California Animal Care and Cruelty Laws + Large Confidence Scheme + Government Contracts with Zero Government Oversight= Rolling in the Benjamin’s $$$$$$$$$

Miranda’s had decades of official, local complaints, legal records & compliance failures, whistleblowers all over the place, I’ve learned. Miranda’s, also out of permit compliance for 23 years, for starters.

Political and legal channels were followed, over & over-police reports filed by citizens, to no avail. Nobody had any idea Miranda had hundreds of dogs coming and going. But, his neighbors, Jennifer and Jenna, knew. They knew so much, they set up a camera, and watched Shannon dig his own grave.

I checked this morning, and they’re up to 773 dogs on the Miranda’s Missing page.

My cynical mind fears the authorities view us as hysterical Pitbull hugging, cat kissing, bird watchers with mental problems.

It’s the worst at night. At 3 am, my eyes slap open and I’m thinking about the transporters, the volunteers, the army of kind humans working hard, doing their best for a homeless dog they love…wondering now if their Miranda’s dog- made it out alive. This busts me into smithereens for them.

I pray the cavalry is coming. My heart screams for justice, for every single dog in those fields. For the VICTIMS OF THIS FELONY LEVEL SCAM, CRIME SPREE, going on for 28 years, it appears.

That’s a long time —that’s Clinton-Lewinsky ago, to present.

Rescue: Working together to save helpless animals in a volatile, expensive, unforgiving landscape, of mostly hellish options. That’s our life. Don’t let anybody make you feel like this is your fault.

Bad shelters, bad rescues- all gotta go. Animal cruelty is intolerable and just because you have “Humane” in your name, doesn’t mean you are. Is it “no kill’s” fault? How is shooting dogs and sending fake adoption pics a no kill effort? It’s a scam, not a rescue.

Animal people are targeted due to generous hearts, can-do spirits, a belief in life, and success for the animals we care about, so deeply. This is the hook, predators pounce and devour, right here. To cry out for jail time, penalties, and accountability is our only shot at punishing the primary fiends responsible for the Miranda Rescue tragedy. Furious, crushed souls, want answers.

I will shut up about this, approximately, never. I invite you to do the same.

This is not vengeance, this is justice.

Original Poster: Valerie Talcott Fausone.

06/06/2026

This Thrift store is a Scam and anyone who shops here and/or donates is part of the Scam! Nothing sold here benefits animals! Why? North Bay Animal Services has lost every contract from Petaluma north to Clearlake. The ED Mark Scott has NO animals this benefits except maybe his own. Don’t be fooled go shop somewhere else.

06/04/2026

Please Read. This is how Animal Abuse is handled in Sonoma and Humboldt Counties!

No police for you! (NPFU hereafter) If you discover an animal cruelty factory warehouse on your way to work today, just keep driving there is no point in reporting it. Gas is expensive. Life is short. Head desking, gives you brain damage. Just drive.

“But there are 114 NBAS dogs inside, starving and standing in three inches of p**p! Hello, 911- I need to report an emergency…the top animal control officer, Mark Scott, just left a building full of dogs half dead…”

“We’ll send the police.”

After two hours, the place is certified by officers as kinda messy/‘lil bit stinky but otherwise TOTALLY FINE! Love, Lake County Sheriff, Clearlake Police, Petaluma PD, Cloverdale PD, Sebastopol, Windsor, CA Atty General’s office and the FBI and all DA’s around the globe.

In Humboldt County, if you’re in your house and see Shannon Miranda drive down your street with a semi truck of dog carcasses sporting a sombrero made out of $100 bills—-you will get NPFU. For 30 years straight.

“HELP! I just witnessed felony animal abuse at Miranda’s Rescue!”

“Please hold, eeerm, we think you may be crazy, and possibly menstruating, so we’ll come out and look around but chances are, Shannon is awesome.”

Is it our rescue outfits? Maybe I smell bad. Parvo triage will do that to a person. Our entire community, from Fortuna to Palm Springs crisscrossing California- NPFU. Oh the cops show up- make a report, takes years, goes nowhere, chief says “We love animals” and pats you on the head. Case dismissed! Thanks for playing along.

The police exist to fight REAL crime. Not deal with stupid animals or annoying fraud schemes impacting whole counties! Arresting city/county good ol’ boys for torturing vulnerable shelter pets takes time!

Today, Mark Scott is a free man. 114 dog felonies later, the City of Petaluma and her police- do not care, it’s not their problem and as long as you have a government contract, you are free to felony.

Today, Shannon Miranda is free. A video exists of him dumping hay and dogs. Dogs, that were at Miranda’s for 11 days. The stinging, outrageous betrayal: the crime- is on film. Shannon’s got no worries, it appears.

Animal cruelty is a predictive crime. I’ve never worked a serious dog bite case that stood alone. There was always violence, abuse, drugs, present elsewhere in the family. NBAS and Miranda’s victimized entire regions of California- and the animals within it. Crime everywhere, arrests nowhere.

Vomitorious injustice like this- hard to take. Law enforcement abyss, extra hard. Animals killed and abused by psychopath scammers, impossible to stand. Our rescues and shelters robbed of resources, our rescue dogs exploited and murdered, donations laundered and squandered- intolerable. And yet, NPFU.

Get your brain right: Arguing that investigations take time, is figuring 8 years on NBAS and 28 years on Miranda’s, is insufficient.

I love the police, I love law enforcement, I honor them, I appreciate them, their dogs are dreamy. I just wish they’d feel the same way about us, our dogs are dreamy too. Like the homeless wandering creatures we save, we are alone in this world. The sin of it all~breathtaking.

Consolation prize: with revenue streams dried up, both scams are in ruins, gravy train crapped out, and the Tiger Kings have bad credit.
Author: Valerie Talcott Fausone

“Some people are so poor, all they have is money.” -Bob Marley

06/02/2026

Here is the ZOOM link to the supervisors meeting for those who cannot attend. Please join and make a public comment!