I understand that people are upset about the whole situation, in all honesty, I am too. But, the latest deleted thread is no real surprise. Almost everyone on here understood that Bri needed someone to take charge of the medical needs of her animals because neither she nor her mother were able or willing to care for their veterinary or behavioral needs. Rather than train Roxy how to behave, chain her outside. Rather than deal with a peeing cat, have it spayed (although she did need to be spayed anyway). Problems like these have been appearing since October 2005, there is no reason for anyone to really believe that because someone decided to ask Pet Talk to pay for the vet bills that the people in the house will suddenly understand what it takes to care for the animals.

With all due respect to you Phred (and I really do mean that), I am just as glad that those threads disappeared. I think they show the worst of Pet Talk. So much bad advice and so many ignorant comments, is not what Pet Talk should be about. As to people learning about being taken advantage of by reviewing those types of threads, well, people are going to believe what they want to believe, and can come up with all kinds of excuses as to how the present situation is different. There were people who tried to make others see that they were being taken adventage of and those people were told that they could confine their opinions to PMs while new threads were being opened to promote the begging. No I am not sorry those threads went away at all.