[mauirobin]

I know I'm still new.....

But several times I have not posted what I thought, this time I'm posting.

This site is supposed to be educational. There is a common belief that unless you are a shower, or a breeder of champions, and god forbid you had an accidental pregnancy....you will be 'booed off the stage" if you will, if you are new.

Several times over the last few weeks, I've seen newbies come & go because they had a question about something you all deemed controversial, & attacked them. Granted, if we feel that the newbie needs to get their dog to the vet ASAP, things can get heated, but that's an emergency, & urgency is needed.

However, when someone has a gestation or pregnancy question, instead of jumping on the bandwagon as some of us do, how about answering the question? Linking some good "dangerous" threads, things that can or will go wrong, etc.?

They will figure out the rest for themselves if they hang around & read. If you scare them off their first day, we have not educated them, & they actually leave us uneducated, & with a feeling that we are just nutz over here. I'm sorry, but I have seen a few members who seem to thrive on starting controversy in threads. They have tons of posts, so I'm aware that they are probably valued members here and I am sorry if I have offended anyone.

I just feel new folks should get helped before torn up into shreds.