Although 90 Day Fiancé fans were first bothered about how Julia Trubkina would manage her new American life on Brandon Gibbs’ farm, soon, the conversation shifted entirely. The meddling on behalf of Brandon’s parents Ron and Betty Gibbs with their contraception talk and strict house rules became a topic of criticism. However, fans later started calling Brandon’s family and their farm – Hummingbird Acres – out for indulging in dog breeding. But what exactly did 90 Day Fiancé fans find wrong in Brandon’s family farm that even Julia had to jump in with a justification?

Russian-born Julia has met Dinwiddie’s pest control technician Brandon when his friend in Moscow decided to play cupid and introduce the 90 Day Fiancé couple via a video call. Brandon, 27, wasted no time in getting engaged to Julia, 26, in Iceland and getting her home to Virginia on a K-1 visa. However, having spent most of his earnings on Julia, the 90 Day Fiancé star had no option but to stay on Hummingbird Acres with his overprotective parents always on the prowl. It was during his introduction on the TLC reality show that fans got a glimpse of Brandon’s farm life, with him petting caged German Shephards apart from tending to pigs, lambs, and poultry alike. But it was also Ron and Betty being “dog breeders” that caused a commotion in the 90 Day Fiancé community.

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Some TLC viewers immediately canceled Brandon’s storyline when they realized that his family farm business involved breeding dogs. “Brandon’s parents are dog breeders? That’s an automatic strike against his storyline for me. #AdoptDontShop” reads a tweet from an angered fan. Another Twitter user notes, “reminder for the #90DayFiancé fam, RESPONSIBLE dog breeders don’t keep their dogs in outdoor cages with dogloos.” The fan also adds, “Brandon’s parents are running a puppy mill.” Several responses to the same tweet agree with the original poster. “That bothered me too. I was wondering why the dogs weren’t out moving freely in the yard and then it dawned on me that they’re just being used to breed. I can’t stand breeders, especially the ones who treat the dogs like that. They should not have been locked in those cages,” says one 90 Day Fiancé watcher, and another one shares, “10000%! I have zero respect for them. I hate people who can treat dogs like that.

However, the original poster does add in another tweet that “Unfortunately what they’re doing isn’t illegal. The dogs are classified as livestock by the USDA and what they have at the farm is classified as adequate shelter. The regulations were created 70 years ago and have absolutely not kept up with the times.” But they also do note how the German Shephards are “super-intelligent working dogs who need social interaction and mental as well as physical stimulation. All things they’re not getting in those cages.”

As a clarification for all the calling out of Brandon’s farm on 90 Day Fiancé, his future wife Julia has herself defended her Betty and Ron by claiming that, the dogs, “live better than many people.” The former go-go dancer requested her Instagram followers to “close this topic once and for all,” and to not “make up a story” as the dogs are watched by two people, “24 hours a day.” The 90 Day Fiancé star Julia also mentioned how the dogs “walk three times a day, sometimes more,” and “how much they want” along with being combed, fed, played with, trained, and also removed from their cells “two times a day.”

Julia Trubkina Brandon Farm Dogs In 90 Day Fiance

While Julia’s statement seemed to show that things might have ended up A-okay between her and Brandon’s family, making her 90 Day Fiancé story a success. But did it help in changing the fans’ minds about what they thought of Brandon’s dog breeding business? As a comment on the 90 Day Fiancé star Julia’s post on her now-private profile reads, “Dogs should NOT BE in a cell but let go in the backyard and run.”

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90 Day Fiancé airs Sundays at 8pm EST on TLC.

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