re: Re: [pyrnet] The Spokane dog and rescue

[merrirfave@icehouse.net]

I am done with this...
Thank you very much for all you have done.
Mer


> ** Original Subject: Re: [pyrnet] The Spokane dog and rescue
> ** Original Sender: "Linda Weisser" <lmweisser@home.com>
> ** Original Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:09:22 -0700

> ** Original Message follows... 

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> From: <clhenke@juno.com>
> 
> 
> All I can say is that Linda and Katie are going to be very busy people if
> they are the only two people on this list that are dog savvy enough to
> judge the merits of each dog.>>
> 
> That is not what I and I also think Katie were saying.  We were simply
> trying to share some experience with less than wonderful rescue situations.
> In an attempt to issue some small "warning" and in the hope that others
> might listen to and perhaps even benefit from our experience.  I thought
> that that is at least part of what lists are about.  Education.  And I could
> repeat the old "saw" that those who will not learn from history are condemed
> to repeat it.
> 
> <<All this based on what "they"
> perceive to be true of course.  What dogs deserve to be rescued (
> certainly not those ill bred ranch raised creatures, they are sure those
> dogs must be poor candidates right from the start! ).  >>
> 
> I will issue you the same "caution" that I issued to Merri.  Until you
> understand what is going on be careful of condemnations.  In our part of the
> world (as in TX) we have dealt with a lot of ranch raised dogs that we have
> successfully placed.  The caution about these dogs is that most of the time
> the people who breed them pay scant attention to anything past the fact that
> the parents are of opposite sexes.  This makes all dogs coming out of these
> breeders more difficult to evaluate and therefore approached with more
> caution and less trust.  And of course, we have no idea how these dogs have
> been raised.
> 
> <<It's well seen that
> once again this goes down the lines of who is a buddy to whom,>>
> 
> EXCUSE ME???  Are you really saying that the only reason that somebody would
> agree with me or me with somebody else is that we are buddies?  Whee.  That
> certainly gives short shrift to say nothing of lack of respect, to some
> people's ability to hold an opinion of their own.
> 
> <<Just because she said she had a different story does not for a minute
> mean that she is implying someone lied.  She simply wrote what she had
> heard.  I've known some wingding arguments on this list, but this may be
> the craziest, and in some ways most mean spirited.>>
> 
> Well, I don't know that is was the *most* mean spirited.  I've read worse
> here and quite possibly said worse.  I was defending Kelly who is not on the
> this list and does huge amounts of totally unhearlded rescue work in the
> Spokane area and whose integrity I felt was being questioned.  And I
> apologize if it seemed that I was questioning Merri's.
> 
> Linda
> 
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