I Have A Puppy!!!

[behinderhereyes]

Originally Posted by Bayoucorgi

Oh Tiffany how sad! You have portrayed the rest of us on this board so incorrectly. We are mature people who DO care about what people think about us so we act honestly and responsibly. We care about the Corgi breed as well as individual corgis. We would embrace you and mentor and counsel you if only you would grow up and let us.

YOU lied to all of us and that's why I don't "like" you. YOU are endangering a poor corgi. YOU have allowed cruelty in your own home and blame it on your mom. Certainly YOU must know where the responsibility for all the animosity lies.

I would counsel you to be honest with this "breeder", tell him or her you have re-evaluated your circumstances and you realize that you cannot adequately care for this animal for its expected lifetime and would like to have your deposit back.

Grow up, get your education, "earn" you cred, and then get a dog when you can REALISTICALLY afford and support it. A couple of years will give you time to learn to manage your emotions, your finances and your future.

And by the way, I do YELL at my dog and my children. It isn't always rosy in the real world. And sometimes (rarely) they need it for emphasis when they need to know I mean it. I yell because I LOVE THEM. Truly, selflessly, and constantly. They need consistent and realistic limits and consequences, and they need them enforced.

I am a degreed professional in a health care field. I have seen a mental health professional during rough times in my life. Two of my children have issues that require a psychiatrist's help. My husband receives help for depression. We are careful not to stigmatize mental health care. It is terribly irresponsible to post on the board that you feel the rest of the board needs psychiatric help when you can't even spell psychiatry correctly.

And MICHAEL, you allow this child to post "put it where the sun don't shine" and you do not edit this! And you seem supportive of her and her debacle. Shame!

Oh please you think you are so superior to me. I have not endangered my puppy at all. You are incorrect

[Chip's Mom]

Off Thread (or maybe not) I do love the block feature.

[Jeni D]

Now I have stayed out of this thread because, frankly, I find the whole thing ridiculous, but I would appreciate it if you not use the term "retarded." It is rude and blatantly offensive, and, hopefully, our global moderator will edit this post for childish name calling and inflammatory comments.

[Chip's Mom]

Jeni

You can go into your control panel and block any user that you want. It works great any posts that are made by him/her are blocked and they don't show up so you don't have to read offensing posts.

[disraeli]

Originally Posted by Jeni D

Now I have stayed out of this thread because, frankly, I find the whole thing ridiculous, but I would appreciate it if you not use the term "retarded." It is rude and blatantly offensive, and, hopefully, our global moderator will edit this post for childish name calling and inflammatory comments.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

[LaRositaMonita]

I have, as a new-ish member, stayed out of these posts until now, but I also have to take offense at the use of the word "retarded" and ask the moderator(s) of this forum to consider how someone's careless words are affecting community members. I am a fifth-grade teacher. While I work in a regular education classroom setting, I have students with special needs (Autism Spectrum disorder, learning disabilities, mental retardation, Down Syndrome) included in my classroom. The use of this sort of language, which I regard as ignorant and immature, is not permitted in my classroom. I have punished students and, quite frankly, kicked them out of my room for a shirt time for the use of this word. I think of my special-needs students when I hear it and want to be an advocate for them.

Behinderhereyes, I ask that you either apologize for being so offense to those who really are only trying to use their years of life experience to help you. If you cannot do that, I would request that the moderators of this fine forum do something about it. In the meantime, thanks, Chip's Mom, for telling us how to use that block feature.

[Bayoucorgi]

LaRositaMonita - we once had a dog who's baby pet name was Lindy Lupita Maria Conchita Perrita Bonita.

Thanks all for the collective umbrage at the use of the word "retarded". I can assure all that I am not. But my son is in the 5th Grade and has received special education assistance for his entire school career. He is not retarded either. In fact, due to the commitment and skill of his teachers he is being mainstreamed this year and recently scored high enough on the state's standardized tests to be re-classified as Advanced Placement in middle school. He was accepted into a prestigious Science Magnet School program. So teacher, you are my hero or heroine. Thank you for your service.

Meanwhile, I've blocked lil' what's her name, and plan to move on. Thanks Chip's Mom for the advice!

[Chip's Mom]

You are welcome. I do believe that is the only way to deal with this problem as our Moderator, for reasons of his own, does not seem to want to take care of this problem. Frankly, Michael, I am disappointed in you. You are a well educated person and a parent. I do not believe that you would not tolerate this type of conduct from your children and I can only wonder why you are tolerating it from Behinderereyes. It is upsetting many new comers to Go Corgi and it is only going to turn people away from this forum. I am appealing to you to use your moderator powers to please take care of this before we lose more people and it gets further out of hand. The longer you postpone or condone her behavior, the worse she is going to be and the more daring and offensive her posts will be. Please use your better judgment and revoke her membership here at Go Corgi.

Thank you,

[ZdogZ]

I, too, take offense to the term "retarded." As a former Special Education teacher (8-1/2 years), the term "retarded" breaks my heart and burns my butt! That is a negative term and should never be used.

[LaRositaMonita]

BRAVO to your son, BayouCorgi, and his fine teachers! You must be a very proud parent. Sadly, my username has nothing to do with dog names (although your doggy's nickname is a beauty!). It's an inside joke between Boyfriend and I that requires lengthy explanation and tolerance of extreme silliness...it's just also my AIM screen name, which is convienient

I hope everyone will be a little more genuinely excited when my cardigan is born about a week from now? I promise to ask permission from my breeder before posting any pictures

[Jespah]

I too am sick of all the nonsense that has gone on and this last post by "lill' what's her name" as Bayoucorgi so aptly put it, is way over the line. I know that Michael feels the "regulars" here need a good run for their money and these inflammatory posts have been keeping the forum very busy - but this is inexcusable.

It's time to do something about this. New members must be disgusted with the way this forum is being run and it's clear that a lot of people aren't even posting anymore.

This is not why I came here. I want to enjoy a community of like minded Corgi lovers. I want to be able to help people if I can with the experience I've had with mine. I'd like to be able to support people who may have lost their dog to cancer or something else - like I was when I came here. I'd like to hear all about LaRositaMonita's new Cardi pup and see photos as it grows.

This seems to have become some kind of game of manipulation to play people off each other for entertainment and to purposely goad people into responding to obscure comments.

I am seriously thinking of leaving, I don't want to, but staying would mean supporting this kind of atmosphere. I sincerely hope for everyone that things will change here and soon.

[Jeni D]

Unfortunately, Deb, that is exactly how I feel. Enough is enough and the forum is sliding down hill at a fairly rapid pace.

[LaRositaMonita]

It's obvious to me that there are still some seriously GREAT dog owners on this forum. I have no intention of leaving because of that. In the meantime, we can simply continue to voice our displeasure and ignore those that can't play by the rules. In teaching, we usually understand that sort of thing to be attention-getting behavior... and it can often be stopped by just not granting it that attention.

I have a week or so left of waiting until we have puppies on the ground...and no breeder update e-mail this weekend! I don't want to be pushy (because whose breeder sends her unsolicited update e-mails, anyway? ), but we're already going crazy with the waiting out here...and to think there will still be 11-12 weeks left after this!

[Jeni D]

The wait is the worst part, but it will all be worth it when you finally get to bring that cute, little fluff ball home

[MrsGrace]

Originally Posted by Jespah

I too am sick of all the nonsense that has gone on and this last post by "lill' what's her name" as Bayoucorgi so aptly put it, is way over the line. I know that Michael feels the "regulars" here need a good run for their money and these inflammatory posts have been keeping the forum very busy - but this is inexcusable.

It's time to do something about this. New members must be disgusted with the way this forum is being run and it's clear that a lot of people aren't even posting anymore.

This is not why I came here. I want to enjoy a community of like minded Corgi lovers. I want to be able to help people if I can with the experience I've had with mine. I'd like to be able to support people who may have lost their dog to cancer or something else - like I was when I came here. I'd like to hear all about LaRositaMonita's new Cardi pup and see photos as it grows.

This seems to have become some kind of game of manipulation to play people off each other for entertainment and to purposely goad people into responding to obscure comments.

I am seriously thinking of leaving, I don't want to, but staying would mean supporting this kind of atmosphere. I sincerely hope for everyone that things will change here and soon.

Here here! Ditto what you said.