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Apr 20 08 4:58 AM
KG349 wrote: Does it bother anybody else when someone posts "for advice" then every person that offeres some, they argue with them. This happened with a thread here the other day. It was like the person just posted to get everyone riled up, or to prove themselves somehow. I notice it on this board more than any other just because the nature of this board is to be critical. By critical I dont mean to bash the board, I mean that this board is here so we can find butt ugly horses, or poor owners, and tear them apart. I personally try not to do that, but I know I get caught up in it sometimes too.
I can be a particularly argumentative girl, so I make sure, if I need advice, I have exhausted all my "other" resources before going to a BB.... a lot is different in horsemanship between people who own a farm/herd (I'm talking 5 or more horses) and someone who owns 1 horse, has fantasized about horses since they were a child, and keeps it at a boarding barn, seeing it three times a week (not saying there is anything wrong with that but I just don't often see eye to eye with people who do that on things like herd management, feed, etc). I am SO guilty of asking for advice and then saying "BUT!" everytime someone brings something up. I don't know whether it is that I don't disclose all the information I should or what... I try to control myself though because I recognize that argumentative trait in myself. The site I run/maintain is www.canadianneigh.com - it's got a huge directory for barns, businesses, etc, a classifieds (brand new so not very busy) and the forum, which isn't super busy but that's alright because I have other things on my plate and so does the girl who helps me. Now, onto GREAT DANES! Yeehaw! LOL I have to stay away from dog forums, too, because I do the "wrong" things left, right and center. Farm run dogs. We have mini aussies and a great dane and a german shepherd. We had two danes until September when I put my 13 year old #@$%+ to sleep. She was not spayed, she was fed free choice, she was obese, AND she had an 11 day sojourn in the woods right around November when she was about 9, and still lived to the ripe old age of 13! Imagine! I probably could have dragged her life on until now, but I chose the better way... she was starting to get shaky and a little senile, and I couldn't imagine waiting until she couldn't "go in peace". We had our provincial large animal vet come out, we put her blanket in the bucket of our tractor, he sat down on the ground and talked to her and loved on her for a few minutes, then I got her onto "her" blanket, gave her a down command and held her while he injected her. Cost me $60... I looked around at small animal clinics and they all wanted to have me bring her in, charge me upwards of $150, and do a health exam to verify that they weren't, indeed, putting a "healthy" animal to sleep because they didn't want to be known as "death clinics" (our regular small animal vet retired in July, long other story!)... so I went "cheapie", but I'm glad I did because Jason took his time with her, gave her some attention, talks to us like we're equals not condescending, and we didn't have to stress her out with an hour's drive (or drive home an hour with a dead dog in the back seat)... we just took her right up and buried her where we had prepared to.
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