Sick of me? Sorry that you feel that way. I enjoy being educated on all aspects of dogs. Weather that be poodles or greyhounds, Frenchies, or Great Danes.

I like to hear what all sides have to say. I enjoy expanding my mind and learning everything possible there is to learn.

Even if you take the best care of your dogs while they are with you I don't agree with your breeding an animal so you can be entertained with it.
AKC breeders do this all to often. Showing dogs, breeding to make the standard of the AKC "better" though I beg to differ on that after what has been done to most of the GSD out there kinda makes me sad.

Yes Purebred breeders do keep there dogs for years. They raise a litter of pups. Find a quality pup that meets the AKC standards, show the pup, then if the pup did well in the AKC shows then they will breed that dog to continue on the good lines, and then when the dog is done being bred most will retire the dog and find it a good home.

So what Uabasson is saying according to you that it's just greyhound breeders that shouldn't exsist and that all the other breeders out there are ok?

How about people that breed sled dogs? are they ok?
Or hunting dogs? are they ok?
Or the police that use there dogs for work?
Or the programs that use dogs for hearing impared or sight impaired? What do they do with the ones that don't make the programs? They find them homes. Now they bred them for one sole purpose and if the dog doesn't fit the bill the move it on to a home.

Is this ok?

I really am not trying to piss anyone off, really

I just want people to know that it's not all bad as so many seem to believe.

I started out AR, I believed all the things I heard and the pictures I saw. Until I took it upon myself to go to the inside and see for myself.

I feel I make a difference for the greyhounds. Every hound that is in my care weather that be that I own it or it races in my kennels will have a forever home. No question!!

So I feel I make a difference in these dogs lives

I don't want people adopting them because they feel bad for the dog I want them to adopt because they are an amazing breed.
We all know how pity adoptions go and most of the time it's not a good thing.


Originally posted by Kfamr
Gosh, I'm sick of this person talking to us as if we know NOTHING about dogs.





NO She DID NOT say that or even mention of it. Responsible Pure-Bred breeders don't keep their animals for years, now do they?

Personally, I treat my dogs as if they are my children. I do not have human children as of now, but my dogs are treated just as I would treat them, if not better.

IMO, what people do to these greyhounds (breed them, race them, dump them) would be like me having a child, raising it, and then giving it to someone else after I've taken it through soccer practice or something.


No one here is denying that greyhounds like to run, but do you honestly think it's the right thing to do to keep getting animals and then giving them off after they can no longer race, as if it were a piece of property?

It's like selling an old 1999 Chevorlet because you wanted a brand new 2005.




Exactly!

Another person and I were talking about this last night.
She's talked so much crap about PT, then she goes and whines that she doesn't get many replies to her threads. WELL.. this is why most of the time people ignore her threads. No matter what we say to her, we're always wrong and she's always right, and nothing we say ever sinks in. And then eventually she goes and grabs one of her other board which she's "been a member of far longer than Pet Talk" which in reality this one was only joined a few days before PT was joined.

I've been on PT for almost 4 years. I've gained SO many friends - online and in real life - and the people here have shown me there is actual hope that there are GOOD people out there! I've never been to another board that i've been so pleased as I have with PT.

If PT wasn't such a great place.. I wouldn't have driven to Ohio TWICE this year to visit with them, nor would I be flying to Utah this Thanksgiving to spend time with one of my best PT friends.

Even after being on other boards the same amount of time as PT, i've never felt the same way as I do with Pet Talk.