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Interested in Fitty's response to this ...
Summary: It's only a rescue if you rescue a big, old, incontinent dog from certain death.
http://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/45511391.aspx
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
Re: Interested in Fitty's response to this ...
I see her point about puppies and kittens, but I'm not sure little dogs are more adoptable...or at least they wouldn't be for me. I detest small dogs even more than big dogs.
Calling it snatchy seems overkill, in any case.
She changed the post. It was originally something like "If you adopt a dog like Tamb's ..." and then "But I'm not flaming Tamb!"
So yeah. Snatchy.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
Hit post too soon.
I do also think it's snatchy that she's essentially tearing down people who adopt dogs. Adopting is rescuing. There's no need to make it a hierarchy or a contest of who's the rescuiest of the rescuers.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
Now I want to make her a Rescuiest of the Rescuers ribbon.
Although she doesn't deserve it, it seems to be what would make her happy.
So now I want to make Fitty a Rescuiest of the Rescuers ribbon.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
I really want her opinion on me adopting what appeared to be a small, healthy dog and then finding out he needed heart surgery.
Is it not a rescue since I thought he was healthy? Or does it count since he would have died without the surgery?
I don't think it's a big whoop to adopt as much as I think it's a big deal not to. Does that make sense? Life if someone adopts, I don't think "Woohoo, you are a saint, a gentleman, and a scholar" but if they buy from a mill or backyard breeder, I judge.
I think her sanctimonious tone is what put people off.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
Ha! I came into that so late (I went to a little fundraiser for a literacy coalition, MAKE ME ANOTHER RIBBON) - she was just being ridiculous and petty. It was a non-point point.
I have never really thought about it in terms of who is doing the BEST BESTEST thing in the rescue/shelter adoption world, but the "big whoop" in adopting is that all those individual adopters just adopting their one little pet are the reason that animal groups can keep their heads above water. At least until real progress can be made in spay/neuter laws and restricting puppy mills and breeders, adoption is the key.
It starts with the countless irresponsible owners and breeders who abandon millions of dogs and cats, and then begins the big pushing-out process. A constant effort to push animals from one resource-strapped group to another in the hopes of saving as many as possible and killing as few as possible. You simply can't do that without a whole lot of willing, qualified, responsible adopters. So it does seem like a humble little thing to just go adopt one little dog (I mean big dog, of course!), ho hum, but the system breaks down without those people.
Fallin, I think there is a place for good breeders. The problem is that there are so, so few of them. People always say they bought from a "reputable" breeder....but they probably didn't. Mostly because reputable breeders don't breed enough for that many people to have their dogs.
Bobo the Rescue Dog does not agree with whatsherface. Here he is racing over to ML to argue with her.
Aww, Bobo..
IT'S NOT A RESCUE UNLESS YOU ARE AN AMPUTEE AND YOUR DOG IS A 200 POUND INCONTINENT THREE LEGGED MUTT.
I just read all that, and the OP is ridiculous. BUT, I kept getting snippy at the people who said something like, "shih tzus and other rat dogs." My baby is not a rat! Then I realized that wasn't the point at all and moved on.
But look at this face. Not a rat dog.
I wonder how aliwhatsherface would solve this little dyelimma at the Killeen kill shelter.
I bet her FUPA's name is Shane, like the gunslinger/drifter of literature.--HappyTummy
Everyone please look at my shelter dog and evaluate my moral fiber on a scale of 1 to 10.
11/11/11 = 5 years. Woah!
Oh people, I have a half bald poorly bred bulldog and a blind deaf fat old bulldog whose eyes and ears need daily de-gooping. And the little one looks like a bat and had to wear braces because his head/teeth ratio was so farked up. Just give me the crown and let's be done with it.
Dogs can get braces? Learn something new everyday.
I think I get some points because my dog is mid-sized and old and missing teeth. And she was adopted and returned either once or twice! Therefore, I am better than anybody whose dog was never returned to the shelter. My dog is a reject!
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Why are only dog owners getting props? What do I get? I have THREE cats, all of them adopted. One was adopted when she was already 2 and still has some abandonment issues, one is super special needs - she pulls out her fur and pukes everywhere. E.V.E.R.Y.W.H.E.R.E. We had to buy a steam cleaner just because of her. One is fat and lazy and bites you when you pet her (to express her love).
Did I mention that I'm allergic to cats? Me=martyr.
11/11/11 = 5 years. Woah!