Petsites that do more harm than good

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ojaeri - 24 Oct 2005 23:39 GMT

I may have posted this on the wrong forum on this site so I'm posting it
again here:

I'm not talking about this petsite but there are others who do more harm
than good. The Moderators and members are more intent on openly
sneering at the people who are trying to help really sick pets, saying
really rude things , personal remarks, and it doesn't seem to matter
if
a person says," but a vet said ...., " they laugh at it and the person
who said it and the whole thread is lost, and so is the person looking
for help. This is allowed on some petsites and it's doing more harm
than good. It's as though these Moderators and members are more concerned

about running their own agendas and trying to run people off the sites

by continually bombarding them until they do. There were some really
good
members that have left these sites and what's left is the bunch that
ran
them off. So when a person has a sick pet and is looking for a little
direction they go to these sites and there's no one left who knows
anything and the person has to work their way through a bunch of rude
remarks . Ok, the ideal is to say to the person to go and see a vet
but
many times they have seen several and are completely lost. I now
avoid
pets.ca, thecatsite.com and practical-pet-care.com. And the problem
is that some of the really good sites had hackers - one had a hacker hit
it three times until the site isn't running anymore which unfortunately
just leaves more people going to sites that are more concerned with
running their own agendas than helping the animals. It's too bad when
petsites do more harm than good that there isn't a way to alert people to
this. One looks at a petsite and says, oh, they help animals but from
what I've been reading I'm beginning to wonder if certain petsites do
more
harm than good.When an unsuspecting petowner stumbles into something
like
this, it's the pet that pays the price .

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rpl - 25 Oct 2005 13:08 GMT

<sigh>

I'm not sure I want to be the one to tell you this, but...

You are *not* looking at a "pet site".

This is the Usenet group "alt.cats".

<knowitall>

Alot of sites copy posts from Usenet (the Internet News Posting system)
and display them for you to read; when you post to them they just turn
around and repost it to Usenet. Think of it as a newspaper that cuts
and pastes the stories from another newspaper.

The most famous example of this is "Google Groups".

I haven't checked the three other sites you've mentioned, but the one
you are currently using is doing just that.

There are *some* advantages for the user doing it that way; your IP addy
(internet protocol address) is listed as being (in this case)
"talkaboutpets.com" instead of your ISP. And some newsgroups that
repost sites moderate for their list (take out spam or offensive posts).
And not all Internet providers carry Usenet (commonly called
"newsgroups") or don't carry a comprehensive feed.

</knowitall>

As I've said, I've heard about "transfer factor" on some TV general
science show, but was (and am) unaware of it from any source that I
personally consider reputable.

Of course your reposting of an infomercial blurb doesn't help your
credibility much, either; are you a cat owner with a sick cat or are you
drumming up business for the people that distribute that stuff.

rpl

> I may have posted this on the wrong forum on this site so I'm posting it
> again here:
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> like
> this, it's the pet that pays the price .

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