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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  Jennifer - if I intimidated you, then for that I apologize as that was not my intention. But when you keep coming back and coming back, claiming that people here are being uncivilized for merely sharing their side of the story, it does need to be addressed. You say you haven't accused anyone of anything, and yet you have quite a lot. And you've made allll of these assumptions after being here for 2 seconds and reading a few threads, in particular one which happens to affect you personally. If you actually take a larger look around, you'll see that there are tons of wonderful, kind, supportive, intelligent, passionate, and friendly people here...but it does feel like you only want to see what you want to see, and that is that a friend/colleague of yours is being discussed and not positively.
And if you'd look around some more at what we see here with unethical quantity-based breeding practices, you'd then also possibly understand just *why* there is so much warranted passion regarding the breeding practices that your friend seems to support. This is of *great* concern to those of us who love this breed, love animals, fight for better breeding, and fight for less euthanized animals (which is 3-4 million a year, btw).
Please understand that this entire issue with your friend is much more complex than just the issue at hand...it goes much deeper and wider than that in its implications. |
Thank you for responding courteously. The OP has all the more right to share their side of the story. My disappointment has nothing to do with their original post. All the people below the OP are not sharing their side of the story as they are not involved in the incident. They are all just there making assumptions about the breeder and the incident without knowing the whole story. They are making suggestions on how to take her down and ruin her reputation. It all just seemed really hurtful. To me, there is a difference between offering support and concern versus damning the other party.
I may have seemed quick to draw my own conclusions during the 2 seconds that I have been on this forum. My apologies as I was not at all prepared for the sheer amount of negativity I would receive involving myself in this. I am completely new to this type of community as have since gained perspective from a few peers who are more well versed in online forums. They told me that forums are built for hostile venting, it’s why many people are here. I did not know this because I was expecting the type of people that you are describing, the wonderful, kind, supportive, intelligent, passionate, and friendly types.
I understand the great concern that this community has for the wellbeing of this breed, of course, this is a community is dedicated to Yorkies. I would expect no less from all of the members here. I can assure you that the breeder in question is not unethical in her breeding practices. She made one mistake in a moment of weakness and apparently that is all this community can tolerate.
I am sure that many members will continue to have responses about what I have just said. They will pull out sentences here and there to offer up their negative opinions on my texts. I fear posting anything else since it seems to just turn into an endless destructive cycle of one human being trying to put down another human being. That has been my experience thus far on the YorkieTalk forums and this first impression has left more than a sour taste in my mouth.