Holy cow!

IMO it's the sites more prominent exposure....they really did ramp up the adveritising on the dog.com site. And we get to reap the "benefit" now.

But yes...many many MANY more now...if you notice on the forum main page there's nothing prominent about NOT advertising dogs...not that there used to be...but we did have some rules posted at one time...I think perhaps a small mention of it in the Welcome and possibly Intro's too might be helpful....because really...how would they know it's NOT kosher if they didn't read teeny tiny fine print in the TOS...which BTW doesn't mention selling dogs that I can see?

OMG!!  Should be a lifetime ban for anyone who would even SUGGEST not to breed unproven animals!  How freaking rude and unwelcoming of them!  LOL!

I'm so glad that I was too busy dealing with a post op hubby yesterday to slap the snot out of that one!

LOL Glenda...I sent her a very polite but clear PM saying that people who do not breed responsibly don't get much support here, and asked her to reconsider staying and learning from the exchange of ideas.  No answer, and I didn't expect one, but I did my bit.

Is your hubby OK? 

He's fine, thanks.  He only THINKS he's in the most gawd awful pain anyone on the planet ever has or ever will experience!  He had a hernia repair done at the surgical center....should have insisted on the hospital for him.  Because they put him under for the procedure, they intabated and cathed him....so between the anesthetic and the cath, peeing was not happening for several hours.  His four 1/2" incisions "hurt like hell" he can't get in or out of a chair alone, got his pain meds upped to 2 every four hours.  Oh, and his throat hurts from the tube.  Sigh.  Men are SUCH babies.  In fairness tho, he did have a massive hernia on one side, and a small one on the other, so he got a double whammy.  Poor guy.

Ouch, hernia doesn't sound fun.  Hope he mends soon and stops the whining. :) 

I don't know whether he really is in dreadful pain or just being a typical man and PERCEIVING a little pain as horrible.  The docs office called yesterday and OK'd doubling the pain meds and said to call if he needed more.  Clearly some pain is expected, and it's such a subjective thing that it's impossible to guage.  I've lived with such severe shoulder pain for so many years that I rarely even notice it.  If I take a pain pill, it's REALLY bad, but as I recall after my neck surgery the pain pretty well flattened me and I walked around looking totally stoned for a couple weeks.  That was the hip tho, where they harvested the bone for my neck....the neck didn't bother me a bit. 

The big hernia has bothered him for months....actually for a year now.  We think what happened is when they removed the stent after his angio, the weakness was protruding and she caught it pulling the stent out.  He had the most horrific pain having the stent removed, and that isn't supposed to happen.  But, for months I've had to remind him to be careful, I've had to be the one lugging in all the groceries so he didn't cause the darned thing to rupture, and I'm the one that's been worrying about it actually rupturing and him having to have emergency surgery.  We see the same PCP and everytime I've gone in, I've mentioned that the doc really needed to convince him to get the darned thing fixed.  I'm guessing that THIS pain isn't a whole lot worse than the hernia was when he'd do something stupid, but this pain sticks around where the hernia pain would fade in a matter of hours.

DS is keeping an eye on him while I'm at work.  His job requires him to be available to run to the plant to make computer repairs, but he gets paid $17 an hour to stay home until he's needed!  Must be nice!  He did have to go in yesterday, but was gone less than 2 hours and I got home before he did.  I set up the baby monitor so that if Todd NEEDS something when DS is in the family room downstairs he can be heard without having to shout.

Hopefully today will be a bit better.  I feel badly for him, but I also feel like he's being a guy....and a bit of a pansy at that!

glenmar

I've lived with such severe shoulder pain for so many years that I rarely even notice it.

Coming from someone who has lived with a severe migraine-type headache every minute for the past 2 years....I know EXACTLY what you mean by that.