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Apr 19 08 11:35 PM
Taldara wrote: I like how sometimes when people first arrive and stir things up we, the 'community' close ranks - even protecting those we've previously had arguments with. I spose it's sort of a Stockholm Syndrome thing - we all have a 'connection' however weird. Then after a while that person becomes part of the connection and is taken into the fold so to speak and is protected against 'outsiders' too. Won't be long before someone new will come along and dis 'us' and PDJ will tell them to leave 'his girls' alone!!!
Okay this is the funniest (and probably most true) thing I've read on this board yet!!
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Apr 20 08 4:25 AM
Tell It Like It Is wrote: Sorry if I repeat anything, I didn't read all the pages. It doesn't really apply to this forum since no one can be banned, lol. But it really bugs me when someone gets banned and then shows back up a few hours later with a new name. You can still tell it's them because of their writing style. Yet they won't admit it when confronted. Or better yet.... when they get 2 new logins just so they can have a conversation with themselves and tell each other how wonderful they are!
Do people really do that?? Too funny! Those types definitely need to get a real life!
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Apr 20 08 4:32 AM
Taldara wrote: The closing ranks thing is obviously such a natural instinct. Take 2 horses for instance that at home HATE each other and then at shows SCREAM blue murder when they are separated from their BESTEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WORLD and will stick together to ward off 'foreigners' in a new herd situation.
I sent two mares to be bred back in 1994. At home, my mare HATED the other mare. After they came back from the breeders (they were there for about 3 weeks) - they were the best of buddies.
Apr 20 08 4:38 AM
Moonbrain Mare wrote: But one thing that I see happening is that in animal snark communities dedicated to being against bad owners/bad care etc, people can easily go over the top and lose perspective. There can be issues where if you're not doing things in a textbook shiny double-laminated eleven star super expensive way, you are a BAD OWNER ABUSER. I knew a girl with a parrot who got reamed out because she was using a feed for it that was supposedly inferior. It was ridiculous ... the parrot was loved and cared for and healthy. It was just like ... whoa, step back and take a deep breath and realise that the feed doesn't matter that much if the animal is happy and healthy eating it. I guess it can be really easy to get sucked into being hyper critical, I mean where do you draw the line between what matters and doesn't matter? But when people go too far it can be really hard to stand against it because you can have a mob of people against you, and argueing makes you sound (and feel) like a bad owner trying to justify their badness.
My poor horses don't even have a barn right now. I even *gasp* have to tie them to trees when I bring them in. We've only moved to our new place a couple of years ago, money is not super-tight, but we aren't rolling in it..... the priorities have been feeding us, feeding the animals, and our ongoing fencing projects (fencing in more sections of our land). Next project is going to be replanting a couple of the pastures, not a barn. I don't feel too badly - horses have lived without barns for a long, long time - it's the pasture they need more! And, we live in a temperate climate, so other than a few nights in the 20's a year, it's pretty easy on them. In the summer, it's actually cooler to be under a tree than in a barn.
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ponypimpmomma wrote: Moonbrain... OMGOSH YES..... I was on a Great Dane board and I got off. I was SOOOO sick of hearing that Danes are some mysterious breed of special dog that only a few really talented people could ever own. That the husbandry was just sooooo out of the realm of most moratls. UGH. If one more person told me the dogfood I was paying over $30 a bag for wasn't "good enough" I was going to commit a crime!! I should be feeding raw. YEAH RIGHT!! I don't even eat meat every night. Who the heck can afford it!!!! So.. I've had danes for more than two years now and haven't killed either one. Neither has been sick or injured. Back on the ole Dane board those folks are losing them right and left and having bloat surgeries out the wazoo. I got SOOOO tired of the know it alls saying because you aren't doing this or that THEIR way you are neglectful and abusive. I know that board!!!! Was the adminstrator named JEFF? I didnt know you had Great Danes. I got banned from there for feeding "the wrong food" too. Oh, and I bred a color they didnt like! I have had Danes for thirteen years and I know what works.
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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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Apr 20 08 7:01 AM
TrickRoperDeluxe wrote: Tell It Like It Is wrote: Sorry if I repeat anything, I didn't read all the pages. It doesn't really apply to this forum since no one can be banned, lol. But it really bugs me when someone gets banned and then shows back up a few hours later with a new name. You can still tell it's them because of their writing style. Yet they won't admit it when confronted. Or better yet.... when they get 2 new logins just so they can have a conversation with themselves and tell each other how wonderful they are! I know exactly which two your talking about haha
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KG349 wrote: TrickRoperDeluxe wrote: Tell It Like It Is wrote: Sorry if I repeat anything, I didn't read all the pages. It doesn't really apply to this forum since no one can be banned, lol. But it really bugs me when someone gets banned and then shows back up a few hours later with a new name. You can still tell it's them because of their writing style. Yet they won't admit it when confronted. Or better yet.... when they get 2 new logins just so they can have a conversation with themselves and tell each other how wonderful they are! I know exactly which two your talking about haha WELL, SHOOT, ENLIGHTEN US!
Its no one on here , its a few um characters from another site we are on.
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Apr 20 08 1:55 PM
Taldara wrote: Tell It Like It Is wrote: Sorry if I repeat anything, I didn't read all the pages. It doesn't really apply to this forum since no one can be banned, lol. But it really bugs me when someone gets banned and then shows back up a few hours later with a new name. You can still tell it's them because of their writing style. Yet they won't admit it when confronted. Or better yet.... when they get 2 new logins just so they can have a conversation with themselves and tell each other how wonderful they are! Do people really do that?? Too funny! Those types definitely need to get a real life!
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Apr 20 08 4:37 PM
Goflipper wrote: Taldara wrote: I like how sometimes when people first arrive and stir things up we, the 'community' close ranks - even protecting those we've previously had arguments with. I spose it's sort of a Stockholm Syndrome thing - we all have a 'connection' however weird. Then after a while that person becomes part of the connection and is taken into the fold so to speak and is protected against 'outsiders' too. Won't be long before someone new will come along and dis 'us' and PDJ will tell them to leave 'his girls' alone!!! Okay this is the funniest (and probably most true) thing I've read on this board yet!!
LMAO, I promise to protect and defend against the outsiders. Until they are welcomed into our ranks of course. =P
Who wins the unpopular contest on this forum? Who wins the popularity contest? Who annoys the bejesus outta ya? Who would you go have drinks with? Here are mine: 1. Buckinbo 2. O.O.... Dunno. 3. Buckinbo 4. No one. xD I wouldn't mind a low-key dinner at a burger joint though. =D
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