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THE TEST by DDR-DSH,
But, I have never had a problem evaluating pups,just throw them in carriers that are just 2 x 3 feet wide. "So they couldn't move around for exercise. Then no food or water and let the strongest survive.

Jim, StarrChar, others...

Oakley is doing really good.  Been so busy I haven't taken many new pics since the visit with Steph, but she's great. Was hoping this summer to get her started in tracking, but all we've really had time for is playing and a little obedience work.  I will try to post a picture or two on a new thread for you guys!

There hasn't been a whole lot new around lately, and I've been so busy with everything that I haven't been online much, except to pay the occasional bill or something, and then I'm off again.  I have several friends and family I used to chat with on Yahoo Messenger, none of which I have chatted with in nearly a month.

I just happened to click on my bookmarked link to this site last night out of curiosity, hadn't been here in a while, and wondered if anything new was happening, hopefully good.  Was wondering how the Seiger Show was going, so I came.  Found a thread on that, of course, but a whole lot more threads full of what I mentioned in my previous posts in this thread, and then SP seemed to get all excited about the fact that I just happend to appear here right after Oli came out with the retraction.

Well, it's not as if I was lurking here, egging things on under another username.  Unlike some, I have only one, and that's the one I am posting under right now.  My life does not revolve around this board, and I rarely come here anymore, because of the attitudes I see.  There is enough of this negativity in real life, and it gets very old watching this site degenerate because there is little respect for differing opinions.

SP seems to think that I have targeted him directly with regards to my feelings about the attitude on this site, and I can assure him that that is not the case.  There are many, many more whom I referred to, and I said as much, also in my previous posts.  I still happen to believe that mature adults can discuss subjects about which they disagree in a manner that is both respectful and dignified.  I am not arguing with anyone, just stating my opinion.

If SP was accused of something he didn't do, that was not good.  Oli apologized to him for what was said.  End of it.  SP was jumped over it for several days, according to his post above.  OK.  Fine.  I didn't do any jumping, so I do not owe SP an apology.  I already said what I think about what's going on, I've said it several times now, and I'm not going to say it all over again.

With regard to religion and politics, I agree that politics have no place here.  Dogs are a miracle of life, and therefore, if someone mentions God in their post, that is their business and no one else's.  This board belongs to Oli, and there is nothing in the TOS that prohibits the mention of God. Perhaps pages and pages of religious arguments should not be here, as this is a dog board and there are religion boards, but certainly the occasional mention of God is not a crime.  I recommend all member reread the TOS, and then their messages, before they hit "submit".

Crys

Really well we are not talking about mentioning god. I was talking about the religious threads that sprouted up around here lately.  This is no place for it.

I did not get all excited. It just seems after all that I had been through and after it all dies down, here you are posting about fighting at that point there really was no fighting going on so I saw that as a very strange comment.

I will not debated this further, just wanted to clear the air a little.

SP

Thanks for clearing the air...

If you don't call the threads I read last night fighting, then I shudder to think what the threads I missed must have been like. I am glad I missed them.

You know, another long-time member PM'd me, telling me that he has had enough. Don't blame him.

I applaud Oli for his hard work here, but I'm not sure that he, or his work, is treated with the respect it ought to be treated with.

I'm out of here.  I've got work to do.

Crys

clear it up snitch boy. the proverbial they are after you sissy boy.

SP, a new troll has joined today.  Another sad sack likely seeking the attention his mommy didn't give him.

You know what to do:

DFTT.

 

call the popo

Crys, how come it's only fighting when someone defends himself and never when someone is attacking him? That is kind of confusing to me. How about blaming the ones who started it and told the lies instead of the guy who was forced to come out swinging? I would think people would say, Jeeze SP, so sorry you had to tolerate all that garbage, maybe you can live a peaceful life now. But NOOOOOO, it's all this patronizing stuff from YES the nicest woman on the board but the woman who admittedly came in after it was all over. Crys, in the real world, SP deserves none of this. It was NOT his fault.

Cry's, I understand how you feel, but to suggest removing the message boards from the site is a bit abserd. Without the traffic the site would not grow or provide the same revenue. This is the attraction and the database is the prize. Sometimes there are more trolls than travelers but the journey is still worth taking. Anyone can start a worthwhile thread, and trolls can be ignored. Life goes on. Moons. This is still slower than shit on my end. Hope things clear up soon Oli.

VM,

It's fighting if there are two or more people--for lack of a better word, fighting.  I didn't read the thread where SP was maligned, but I can well imagine how it went.  That was wrong, just as the rest of the nonsense is wrong.  I didn't say he deserved it.  I don't know what was or wasn't done, who made what statements, or how this whole thing came to be, but Oli retracted his original statements, and apologized, in front of the whole wide world, to SP.  I don't owe SP an apology, as I didn't jump on him.  I wasn't the one, or ones, who sent whatever to Oli.  I would not have jumped on him even if I had been here, but I wasn't.  To attack SP over this wasn't right, but I have seen many, many attacks on many, many other people, many of those also undeserved, and I have asked the same question as below, and usually there is someone saying just what you said above.

What I am wondering is why there can't be a little respect? 

While I'm sitting here waiting for an important phone call and wasting a portion of my day, why is it that you suggest that I should pity SP for all the nonsense he's had to put up with, when he has given plenty of his own, but you call it patronizing when I think that mature adults should be a little more respectful of each other?  If you call it patronizing, like it's a bad thing to think that we should respect each other's views, then it's no wonder that there is so much of this going on here.

You see, though there are some who will spend their whole day messing around on this board, I have a life.  Kids, dogs, house, school, husband, and any number of other things that occupy my time.  I don't take what a person says here to be something that is life or death for me.  Someone took something to Oli, something apparently untrue, but they reported this anyway.  I must say, even if I knew something like this to be the God's honest truth, I still wouldn't likely bother reporting it, unless the action threatened someone's life or livelihood, simply because this board is not my life.  I don't say much most of the time, hoping that things will simmer down, and every time I think they have, I find that it is only getting worse.

I didn't start this thread to stir the pot, only to state my opinion, not of this specific issue with SP, but just the attitude in general.  If that is perceived as patronizing, then I am sorry you feel that way.  Perhaps we could all learn to be a little more respectful, and we'd all feel a little better.  I try to treat every person here with equal respect, even if I don't like them, because I understand that sometimes personalities just clash, and there's nothing you can do about it.

I guess that call I'm waiting for isn't going to come, so I'm going to let voicemail have it, and I'm going to get to work.  Have a nice one, folks, and please try to think about what you write and say.

Crys