Originally Posted by Giulli  Hi there,
Thank you everyone that welcomed me. And most important thank you for those who PMed me, I am writing a prompt reply for those also.
I am very happy some of you sent me some advices. My own experience (my dad is a dog breeder for over 30 years and he is nearly 80 years old now) wasn't very useful or even helpful. He is "old school", and I am against his more noisy methods.
Unfortunately however now I must depart. My account will be removed soon, but I will have you know I thank dearly every one of you that sent me an useful reply.
And, as for manners... believe me, I do have them. Making USE of them, however, is something of my choice. "Manners" have many 'concepts'. I have lived in USA for many years, and in one of the cities I resided (Phoenix), the biggest mistake you can commit is to open a door and be friendly to a neighbor who rings your bell with a cake. The next time you open the door, they will enter uninvited, open your fridge, cook something, sleep in your bed, use your shower, borrow without asking your lawn mower and act like they are your best friend. But, should you need them, they will quickly invent a trip to Nepal or somewhere further in the next 2 hours. That's not what I call manners, or friendliness.
But since I also lived in San Francisco and people there were extremely polite, gentle and totally unobtrusive, I will not blame it on "cultural differences", I will say that upbringing and choices are what makes a difference.
I am not 12 years old. I have been using forums for many years (so I do know of PMs, I read the TOS of everything and I am all but an idiot), until I got FED UP on how we ask a question and have as answers everything BUT helpful stuff, including gratuitous rudeness. So, I put my very unfriendly disclaimer on my first line, knowing only those true helpful and serious people will look past that and actually help out.
After all, "if someone can't take my worst, they don't deserve my best". Most people show their best before showing their worse; well, I just work the other way around, and thanks to this, I ensure I will, indeed, not collect more 'fair-weather friends'. And deep inside, I am fun, cheerful, friendly, I stick through thick or thin and buy 'fights' that are not mine, for a friend. So, after this thick shell goes past, I have plenty of online and offline friends, whom I love very much and which I am truly grateful for.
Again, I thank you all who answered my thread... I wish all of you the very very best in life, and much love and long happy life to your Yorkies!!!
Merci/Grazzie/Thanks again,
Giulli |