Lab Forum

Yuck. What forum did you join???? (you don't have to post it, but feel free to PM me) I joined one that was horrible. I saw "old time members" and a mod or two rip apart newbies, uninformed members, etc.

Don't know Lab-specific, but this place is FAR more tame than anywhere else.  You get more support and encouragement here than any other forum I'm a member of.  Not saying they are better or worse than here, but...

Hope someone can hook you up w/a Lab group that can give you what you're looking for.

 Paige, I know! I've been spoiled by this place. LOL! It's soo much friendlier then anything else I've seen.. Serves me right for trying to venture on my own.

 None that I know of.... Actually I only know one, probably the same one as BlackLabbie. Had a horrible experience. HOWEVER I met some fabulous people with which I still talk. I now belong to a lab agility list instead. Much nicer group. This is a great board, again it is not lab specific but they do know dogs. I also belong to a golden retriever forum, and they have several lab owners there. They don't behave badly toward "the other breed" LOL Since I have both I speak from experience.

One thing that FLOORED me on the lab board. I was looking for a puppy. Ok I understand about advertising etc on these boards. I SPECIFICALLY requested PM answers. However my question was strictly about the typical size of a certain breeders dogs. I have a gargantuan mutant dog, and wanted a smaller one, so I was asking do their dogs tend to run on the large or small size. My thread got locked, and I got a NASTY email from the moderator. GOOD GRIEF! If you can't discuss looking for a puppy on a breed board where can you? 

So if you want to join another forum I can give you the link to my golden forum. Good discussions there (like here) about food, health, training, obedience, agility, field and they talk about breeders ALL the time.

Ann

I sent you a PM... I hope the one you joined is not the one I'm a member of. I really like the one I'm at.....   :(

 I have only been on this one to read about knee injuries (sigh) I have no idea how the rest of the place is

http://www.lab-retriever.net/board/index.php

I'm sending you the link to a really nice, friendly Lab forum.

 Thanks so much! 

The public forum I posted on told me to sell my stuff to get Maze to the vet... And then when I pointed it out that I was being flamed, I got in trouble!! Apparently it's ok for members to tell a new person that I'm essentially killing my dog and that I should sell my house, stuff and pretty much everything I own.... And yet I'm the one in the wrong.. *sigh*

Hhm, you know, I think I saw your post- before anyone replied.  I'm not surprised at the turn it took.

 Lol! Neither am I to be honest.  It just amazes me that they assumed I wanted a diagnosis over the internet...

Clearly I haven't seen the message, but any time someone brings up the ability/inability to pay for vet care, it becomes heated.  (If they'd found out you're thinking of getting another dog, too, on top of financial concerns to treat your current dog, you'd have been more than flamed - you'd have been torched and beheaded, trounced through the "square" and there would be spin-off threads criticizing each aspect of your situation.  I've seen it happen.)

 Which is why I haven't even mentioned the puppy. Even if it is a couple years down the road...

miranadobe

...(If they'd found out you're thinking of getting another dog, too, on top of financial concerns to treat your current dog, you'd have been more than flamed - you'd have been torched and beheaded, trounced through the "square" and there would be spin-off threads criticizing each aspect of your situation.  I've seen it happen.)

I've seen that happen on that board for simple questions.  It's calmed down some, but can really can get nasty sometimes.

miranadobe

on top of financial concerns to treat your current dog, you'd have been more than flamed - you'd have been torched and beheaded, trounced through the "square"

You forgot the drawing and quartering which would precede all the above. LOL. The web is so nasty at times. Judgmental people that are perfect in every way and live in little cliques make me want to fart in their general direction.