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Fangs Are Bared Over Md. Group's Katrina Dog Rescues
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Bloomfield did not return phone messages left at her home and office. Her attorney, Edward S. Wisneski, said the allegations are baseless but would not respond to them in detail. He would not say whether Bloomfield disputes writing some of the postings attributed to her in the suit.
According to the defamation suit, Bloomfield posted a profanity-laced poem aimed at Deserio on at least two Web sites. The poem and other items allegedly posted by Bloomfield on Web sites were attached to the defamation complaint.
The poem warned that "no rich [expletive] who don't do Nuthin right is gonna take my dogs without a fight."
The blog also featured a letter from Sumrall.
"I don't know if you realize how bad you're hurting me by not giving me my dogs back," Sumrall wrote in the undated posting. "You make the holidays hard for me cause I always by my dogs something for christmas. This year, I couldn't cause of people like you who have my babies."
Deserio and Wilcox began receiving "threatening and disturbing communications" from people who were following the case in the blogosphere, they allege in the defamation lawsuit. Their attorney in that case would not comment, nor would Wilcox. Deserio did not respond to a phone message.
Bloomfield obtained a temporary restraining order Jan. 31 in which a Louisiana judge ordered officials from the Montgomery SPCA to return the dogs to Sumrall and threatened to fine it $1,000 for each day it disobeyed the order.
The defendants weren't properly notified and didn't get a chance to defend their position, Wisner said. They believe that the petition for the restraining order misstates the facts.
Wisner said the easiest way to resolve the case would probably be to have the original and new owners of the dogs talk to each other.
"We've got to get the lawyers out of it," she said.
