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One's being given away for free on the local Craiglist.
Why? She says her husband's allergic.

[Saddening/maddening - someone's also giving away a
14-year-old Chessie, because they're moving. Crikey]
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community

(Melinda Shore) wrote in news:epm51m$pl3$1
@panix3.panix.com:

[]
One's being given away for free on the local Craiglist.
Why? She says her husband's allergic.

[Saddening/maddening - someone's also giving away a
14-year-old Chessie, because they're moving. Crikey]

Sometimes I hate people. 14 years old! It's unbelievable.

--
Catherine
& Zoe the cockerchow
& Queenie the black gold retriever
& Max the Pomeranian
& Rosalie the calico cat

diddy wrote:
in thread : (Melinda
Shore) whittled the following words:

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One's being given away for free on the local Craiglist.
Why? She says her husband's allergic.
She probably got the dog because they are advertised as being hypo-
allergenic.
I'd say both the dog AND husband were victims to false advertising.

Just this week someone told me that a friend of theirs who was getting a dog
was looking into terriers because the husband is allergic! I suggested they
look into poodles or bichons instead....but she said that at least they were
taking the tack of spending time with various dogs to see what happened
rather than believing marketing claims. (These people, who have never had a
dog, were also interested in Irish Terriers because they liked hers. I think
she convinced them that it was NOT a breed for novices!)

diddy wrote in news:Xns98C86A4FFE5ADdanny@
216.196.97.142:

in thread : (Melinda
Shore) whittled the following words:

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One's being given away for free on the local Craiglist.
Why? She says her husband's allergic.
She probably got the dog because they are advertised as being hypo-
allergenic.
I'd say both the dog AND husband were victims to false advertising.


While I'm ALL for villifying scammy breeders (and my history here
certainly cough proves that), there has to be *some* responsibility on
the part of the puppy buyer. So I end up feeling like "victim" might be
too strong a word here.

If I'm in the market for a coffee machine, I make it a point to at least
roughly know what a coffee maker does. If someone has a storefront that
sells magical boxes and he promises that theu're different than any
other coffee maker I've ever seen (i.e. a brand new "breed"), and tells
me that not only will it make coffee like my favorite coffee maker, but
it will also somehow turn on my tv- to only my favorite channels- and
answer my phone for me (i.e. that "new breed" that has both the
attributed of a lab with the magical- and mythical- hypoallergenic
properties of the poodle). Before I just believe that this product will
incorporate the multiple functions of a few of my favorite electronic
gadgets, I'm gonna go check out this guy's claims. If I see that there's
some controversy about whether or not it *actualy* makes coffee, or that
some of them make coffee, but some of them only make brown goo that
*looks* like coffee....well, I'm going to at least do a little more
investigating.

If I just took this guy's word for it and plonked down cash without so
much as checking his claims out, and then complain about it, most people
would tell me I was an idiot for forking over any dough.

Speaking of coffee....I'm running at a deficit. I hate trying to change
over my entire sleep cycle. Mornings and I have never been on friendly
terms. The good news is that seeing all the morning people is like
visiting an alien planet everyday. And, so far, it seems that morning
people are a *lot* friendlier than night people. Not saying whether
that's a good thing....just something I've noticed :-)

Tara

diddy wrote in
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in thread .196: Tara
whittled the following words:
While I'm ALL for villifying scammy breeders (and my history here
certainly cough proves that), there has to be *some* responsibility
on the part of the puppy buyer. So I end up feeling like "victim"
might be too strong a word here.

If I'm in the market for a coffee machine, I make it a point to at
least roughly know what a coffee maker does.

People with something to sell make VERY convincing arguements.

Of course they do. That's their JOB. But if I don't at least check out
their claims, then shame on me. If I don't even do the most basic due
dilligence, then I can't call myself a victim.

Look at the number of people who supposedly are intelligent
knowledgable dog people, who fall victim to the raw diet scam.

It would be more helpful to use proper terms here. No one was "selling" you
a raw diet. That wasn't a "scam". Might be a fad, certainly, but not a
"scam". There's a HUGE difference between those things. You very well may
have participated in a feeding fad, and your dog suffered for it, but that
doesn't make you a "victim" of a "scam". Scammers, by definition, have a
financial interest in getting you to make a certain choice. If that scammer
actually does Victimize someone, it means they misrepresented themselves to
the point of actual financial fraud. That bears no relation to trying out a
new fad diet on your dog.

Tara

ceb wrote in
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(Melinda Shore) wrote in news:epm51m$pl3$1
@panix3.panix.com:

[]
One's being given away for free on the local Craiglist.
Why? She says her husband's allergic.

[Saddening/maddening - someone's also giving away a
14-year-old Chessie, because they're moving. Crikey]

Sometimes I hate people. 14 years old! It's unbelievable.


I don't know. That actually makes a whole lot of sense to me. Oh, wait
a minute, you were talking about giving away a 14 year old DOG. Never
mind, then.

Paula

Paula wrote in
9.11:

ceb wrote in
:

(Melinda Shore) wrote in news:epm51m$pl3$1
@panix3.panix.com:

[]
One's being given away for free on the local Craiglist.
Why? She says her husband's allergic.

[Saddening/maddening - someone's also giving away a
14-year-old Chessie, because they're moving. Crikey]

Sometimes I hate people. 14 years old! It's unbelievable.


I don't know. That actually makes a whole lot of sense to me. Oh,
wait a minute, you were talking about giving away a 14 year old DOG.
Never mind, then.

Paula


Yes, I believe it's more the equivalent of giving away a parent or
grandparent.

--
Catherine
& Zoe the cockerchow
& Queenie the black gold retriever
& Max the Pomeranian
& Rosalie the calico cat

ceb wrote in
:

Paula wrote in
9.11:

ceb wrote in
:

(Melinda Shore) wrote in news:epm51m$pl3$1
@panix3.panix.com:

[]
One's being given away for free on the local Craiglist.
Why? She says her husband's allergic.

[Saddening/maddening - someone's also giving away a
14-year-old Chessie, because they're moving. Crikey]

Sometimes I hate people. 14 years old! It's unbelievable.


I don't know. That actually makes a whole lot of sense to me. Oh,
wait a minute, you were talking about giving away a 14 year old DOG.
Never mind, then.

Paula


Yes, I believe it's more the equivalent of giving away a parent or
grandparent.


Actually, I'd rather keep my preteen than one of my parents, who is not
as bad as her mother was. I think I need to move and give away everyone
before I go. My mom used to say she was going to change her name and not
tell any of us what it was when she got in these moods.

In other news, I have become less and less able to tolerate the GSD hair
all over my house as my allergies have been going out of control lately.
I came home late last night to a bed full of GSD hair and a favorite
chewie hidden under the pillow. I was too tired to change the sheets, so
I just went to bed with the hair and regretted it very quickly. Even
after downing benadryl, I was all messed up. I am taking steps to ensure
that the dogs that shed do not get into my bed any more, but I'm not
looking to get rid of the dogs. What kind of idiot am I? I don't even
know when I am supposed to dump the living beings I agreed to care for.

Paula

"Paula" wrote in message:

I don't even
know when I am supposed to dump the living beings I agreed to care for.

One of the new regulars at the dog park has a newly adopted Boxer that she
is seriously allergic to. Any contact with the dog on skin (including
saliva) causes her to break out in hives.

The good news is that she's just plain allergic to dogs, and has had many
before, that lived to ripe old ages. She's going to start allergy shots
soon.

Suja

"Suja" wrote in
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"Paula" wrote in message:

I don't even
know when I am supposed to dump the living beings I agreed to care
for.

One of the new regulars at the dog park has a newly adopted Boxer that
she is seriously allergic to. Any contact with the dog on skin
(including saliva) causes her to break out in hives.
The good news is that she's just plain allergic to dogs, and has had
many before, that lived to ripe old ages. She's going to start
allergy shots soon.

My biggest allergies are trees. You just can't get away from them. I
can control what trees I plant in my yard, but the wind blows tree stuff
all over the place and I can't go around the entire neighborhood and area
I work in demanding that everyone chop down every offensive tree. Once
you have accepted a life on allergy meds and varying degrees of problems
no matter what in one area, it's easy to accept it in others. Dogs are a
lot nicer to me than trees ever have been, anyway.

My allergies have become progressively worse as I have grown older. I
think I may well eventually end up having really serious trouble with
dogs. But I love Bouviers and poodles, so that's okay. Right now, I can
hang out with the dogs, but I can't sleep or sit in their hair long term.
So I have to keep them off the beds, off the couches that I sit on
(except the leather couch, which can just be wiped off) and watch how
much dog hair I get on clothes that I can't change soon. Kind of a pain
in ways, especially the other day when I had to strip my bed and wash
everything because Molly was hanging out on my bed while I was gone just
to have her jump up there five minutes after I remade the bed and left
the room for five seconds. I was not amused at having to go through that
process twice in a row. We had a talk and she has left the bed alone
since that.

Paula