She never said everyone's words were pointless, she said the thread itself (meaning the poll, loved or feared? doesn't seem much point to it). And since then it's gone off into talking about goldens with behavioral problems, goldens who have bitten, goldens that are badly bred. Well like Vela said you could replace "goldens' with any dog breed and it'd be true. I see threads on goldens from time to time and they always turn into this with like.. people trying to prove goldens are no better than any other dog breed. Well it is like any other dog breed, some folks will just enjoy/click with them more and really feel attracted to them. That doesn't mean they are "better" than any other dog. Now I looked at two old rottie threads and nothing but positive comments, no negative stories about bad breeding or puppymill rotts, or rotts with behavior problems. Sure they are out there, but the point of the threads were to talk about the breed with others who enjoy the breed. It seems almost impossible to have a similar thread about labs/goldens, the "popular" breeds, because people seem caught up in trying to prove that "they aren't all that."

I'm off my soapbox. These are thoughts I've held back in other golden threads in the past that I decided to air out this time