GOGSoc Episode V: The GOG Strikes Back

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Gah, the pit falls of unregulated breeding Crufts has a lot to answer for *mutter mutter* Same happens with horses... Poor puppy and poor kids

You ok m'dear?

Sounds too horrible! When will they release you from hospital? Surely at least as bad as the pain is the fact that you have to be in hospital - the awfulness of that must be at least as bad as physical discomfort...

Thanks about the puppy... I'd like to think this will turn the in-laws in question on to the questions of animal rights. I suspect, though, that it'll just make them think that animals are more trouble than they're worth, or something

Thanks potty. I didn't know there was a similar problem in horse breeding, how so? Is it mainly to do with racing / eventing horses? If I ever had a horse, I'd be so careful about breeders... I'd adopt if possible, of course. Same with dogs.

PS. There was an anti-Kennel Club (ie anti-Crufts) documentary on BBC Four recently, and it was shocking stuff. These people are *not* on the side of animals, whatever they might think.

Thanks potty. I didn't know there was a similar problem in horse breeding, how so? Is it mainly to do with racing / eventing horses? If I ever had a horse, I'd be so careful about breeders... I'd adopt if possible, of course. Same with dogs.

I'm fine really, just severe discomfort. Also have this huge looming cloud of "what am I going to do for the next 2 weeks?" looming over me. I have to be off work for 2 weeks with no strenuous activity or heavy lifting (so that rules out my major hobby) for at least 3 weeks...
I think much baking will be done and also I have to apply for a 100% teaching job at work, so that will take some time.

I get most of my post sent to work now because it arrives here to the flat at mid-day -it's 11am at work. At home it's even worse, it arrives at 1 - 2pm. I mean ... not so long ago post was delivered at the latest by 10am. It's daft and can't be helping their business model much.

The problem is though Alba that an ill bred horse is an ill, unhappy horse. Dodgy confirmation equal massive health problems and probably an early death - that website actually rescues some of those horses, but also tries to stop idiots who think that anything with *******s is good breeding stock from creating more horses born to go straight to the kill buyers.

I'm fine really, just severe discomfort. Also have this huge looming cloud of "what am I going to do for the next 2 weeks?" looming over me. I have to be off work for 2 weeks with no strenuous activity or heavy lifting (so that rules out my major hobby) for at least 3 weeks...
I think much baking will be done and also I have to apply for a 100% teaching job at work, so that will take some time.

Oh I was released at about 6pm, thankfully. I was getting ready to go home at about 2pm when the fainting episode happened, so annoying. Felt really sorry for my bf. He was wonderful and sat with me until it went over and drove me home and did all the shopping and made me jelly hehe.

I've also had KC dogs but from good homes. Some of the cat breeders are just as bad, they run their programmes like factories all mine are neutered (although I kind of wish we'd had one litter from our girl) and I'm really glad not to have to deal with breeders any more.

I get it, but rescuing them while going 'this horse looks like ****' is just kinda horrible to me. With cats, dogs, or humans, it wouldn't be cool. It just reminds me of all the rich bitches at my old school, who would spit with disgust at 'ugly nags' while trotting off on their oh-so-expsensive thoroughbreds. Some of which had severe behavioural problems (well, at least they had that in common with their owners). And it reminds me of KC types saying that a mongrel is 'good for nothing'. The obsession with breeding in animals is as bleh to me as it is in blue-blooded Victorian early-grave aristocratic humans: inbreeding sucks.

Surely the easiest way of avoiding any dealings with unethical breeders / inbreeding problems with animals is just to get mongrels, though?

Sympathies. The Royal Mail recently sent us a courtesy letter saying 'In order to improve our services, we will now deliver at 3pm instead of the previous 8am. We hope you appreciate this.'

We were like, you morons! Delivering a day late at 8am is better than delivering at 3pm. We have places to be! We want our post

Now whenever we order something from Amazon, we're never around to receive it, and we have to walk the three miles to the depot or have it redelivered... which it will be... after three days... at 3pm

This is a long shot, but does anyone have electronic access to the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 20 (1990), 269-289?

But Ilex and Potty, that website is horrible - they're taking the piss out of these horses not just because they're badly bred, but *because* they're found aesthetically wanting. Mongrel snobbery, in other words. If it was about health I'd get it,but the commentary tends to be, well, *you fugly*, as the title suggests.

And 9 times out of 10, a horse is found aesthetically wanting because of its breeding. That's the issue (That saidone horse I worked with had breeding you would never have guessed!)

The direct link I posted to is a classic example - the horse doesn't even look like a horse and could never undergo a decent amount of work as its front legs would suffer tendon problems pretty quickly. They then go lame and are either buted up and still ridden whilst doing more damage, or shuffled from pillar to post usually ending up at some already over-run charity as a long term permanently lame horse

Whereas a mongrel dog or cat can still be a great pet for someone and probably wouldn't come with 4/5 figure vets bills. A lame horse is no use to anyone.