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Originally Posted by erickajm  There have been numerous posts that I would have loved to voice my true opinions. I have many times bit my tongue. Other times I have voiced my opinion only to feel that I may have been a bit too harsh. I find it very frustrating when I read some of the posts and it is very hard not to say what I REALLY want to say but in the end it isn't going to help the situation.
I think the majority of people who do post are looking for advice because they know they are in over their heads. It is our job as the experienced breeder to help guide them in the direction needed. It isn't going to help the pregnant dog at all by condemning the person to where three posts later, they are swearing off YT.
Life is full of oops! Just because it is an oops doesn't mean it won't work out. Case in point ~ me... I was an oops and look, you wouldn't know what to do with yourselves if I weren't here!  |
I understand what your saying and agree with you. I've most of the time but, not all the time have been compassionate and considerate in how I post. As I've always said and tried to live by the words "I'm not here to alienate but to educate"
However, I do know that a certain thread prompted your post. But, did you stop and think about it this way? That person had been on this board for about a year, and I suspect reading various posts. That person missed a golden oppurtunity when the brother obtained these two yorkies. She could have been the teacher and told him your puppies are approaching the age where the female can be bred and shouldn't. She could have suggested to him that they should be kept seperated until the time they were old enough to be bred and he had more knowledge of the process, or to have them altered