[Michael Romanos]

Repairing electrical goods in NZ, from heaters through to toasters - I guess the same in the USA - has now become mostly obsolete because it is sometimes cheaper or little dearer, to buy a new item rather than have the used one repaired.
There are numerous problems in NZ and many stupid or incorrect political decisions and poor attitudes - but without a word of a lie, there are probably less problems here and a more community and communicatorial way of life than anywhere else. There are some stark differences between us and the USA - just yesterday I asked the AKC for some rather simple info and they wanted me to pay US$60 for it. The NZ Kennel Club would charge nothing to give out this kind of info.
A lot of people in NZ have a poor attitude to dogs. Here are two examples. A shop manager in a city mall has been stopped by the mall management from taking his tiny and harmless Griffen in a carry bag into his shoe shop where the customers are happy and all the responsibility rests on the shop manager. What does that achieve and what is so wrong with well behaved dogs going into shops and shopping malls.

A drunken woman ordered two dogs to attack two policemen. They didn't and one of the dogs did not even belong to the drunk. The police successfully ordered both dogs put down. I ask you, apart from anything else, how many dogs understand the word "attack." My Tayor doesn't.