Barbara Ranberg Smith AKA “Barbara Queenbee” is Rosa Fond’s right hand man – the one in charge with choosing fosters/adopters for all dogs, the one who will instill the fear of being smeared across social media in anyone who speaks out against her beloved rescue.
Her bullying and harassment is well known to many and she isn’t exactly stealth about it. She puts it out on full display for all to see – sort of like a mafiosa who makes sure there’s an audience when he whacks your kneecaps. The message to all that you don’t screw around with HER rescue is loud and clear.
Barbara is all too willing to do her leader’s dirty work as Rosa Fond sits on the sidelines letting Barbara attack people viciously and reprehensibly. Rosa is in full supprt of this behavior and often orders it to be levied against her detractors. Anything to “protect her rescue” which to many, is code for “protecting the Fond’s bank account”.
If anyone dare post anything remotely critical of HAAU’s “rescue”, Barbara is quick to find out who they are and then start digging for any dirt she can find on them. Extroidinary efforts are made to dig up relics from people’s pasts, info on where they currently work, any disputes they may be involved in with other people – anything to use against them to humiliate, threaten and attempt to discredit that person. Barbara has gone so far as to call people’s place of employment to have them fired, called DFACS with bogus complaints about people abusing their children just to harass and intimidate them and calling in other bogus complaints anywhere she can. All of this behavior is fully supported and condoned by Rosa Fond who has been known to participate in much of this bullying herself.
Below is a classic example. A post that was very critical of HAAU’s operation was shared in a Facebook group, however, the person who posted this obscured the original poster’s identitiy to spare them the harassment. Babara repeatedly messaged the poster wanting to know who the creator of the post about them was. Barbara ultimately had to be blocked because she simply would not stop.