Re: [pyrnet] The Spokane dog and rescue

["Linda Weisser" <lmweisser@home.com>]

----- Original Message -----
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