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Originally Posted by redvalaria  well, maybe its me, then.
because every other day is an article in the news, a tv story, or some other information about back yard breeders, puppy mills and the like.
How could you exist in OUR WORLD of internet, twitter, mass communications and NOT KNOW about puppy mills? It seems to me they are firmly out of the closet, known to quite a lot of the world. 60 minutes does another piece about them about every quarter...as do the other news outlets.
There are shows on all the cable networks about rescue groups and the detrimental aspects of bad breeding, so, it still astounds me that people walk into pet stores and buy dogs.
A gerbil, maybe, but a dog?
I still don't get it. More to the point, everyone acts all shocked and surprised that they didn't get a "high quality pet" from these sources. |
Your message gets lost in your delivery.
Plus there are tons of things on tv but some of us when we hear puppy mills, we think of the dumps with crates on top of crates, that's not what people see when they go to a pet store and see these loveable puppies being cuddled by the employees and having our heart strings tugged on. That's what I learned HERE! So, yes some of us do come in pretty dumb about it but thank God we have patient nice people like you to point it out.
Seriously, is it so horrible to post something without a ton of snarkiness in it? She didn't deserve being berated, she's obviously been around awhile and has learned.
geesh.
And btw, I'm not just picking on you, edvalaria, it's several people on the boards lately, it's just not needed no a support forum.