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TheMightyFavog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 11:53 AM Original message |
Dog racing in Wisconsin "On the verge of extinction" |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
1. Good |
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RedCloud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
2. People should just gamble on the stock market where it's legal! |
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Gman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
3. I always enjoyed playing Dairyland off track |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:11 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. always loved the dogs, without the tracks the racing will just become more local |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:13 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. It's a disgusting practice. |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:18 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. lure coursing, nah hare coursing is were the real skill is, |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:25 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I live with a beagle. She's a rally champion, and loves to track. |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:27 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. well im sure she does enjoy it, my dog naturally hunts and ive always had dogs that hunt and kill |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. There's a big difference between having a hunting dog and racing greyhounds |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:30 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. So its the treatment you disapprove off, so its okay to race greyhounds if they get treated to your |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:34 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. It depends on the setup you have, but I do think socialization with people is important |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:35 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. That's all he wants to do? Seriously? |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:39 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. sorry but no matter how much you believe it to be so, the dog is just a dog |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:41 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I respect all animals. Those I live with, and those I don't. |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:44 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. lol you have no idea what i have to rely apon my dog for, you speak like someone who has never |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:04 PM Response to Reply #20 |
28. You also sound like someone who hasn't missed any meals, |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:08 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. lol what you think everyone was brought up in comfort, |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:11 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. Right. You're so poor that you're posting about how poor |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:14 PM Response to Reply #39 |
44. lol obviously you have no idea, if you dont realise that dogs are used in poorer communities |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:16 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Oh, now you're in jail. LOL! Well, there's a testament |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:17 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. yeah im the jail, not imcarcerated just working, |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:53 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. I just think it's interesting that he didn't tell me what "job" he had for his pit bull |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:55 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. oh i was distracted and missed posting, some were guard dogs and im sure a few were |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:56 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Pit fighting... |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:58 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. no idea, wouldnt be surprised though, its real common |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:03 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. It's real common, because of unscrupulous people like you who don't care about their dogs |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:05 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. lol, you have a terrorist as your signature and your calling other people out |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:08 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. I think selling dogs knowingly into a life of being a fighting dog is unscrupulous |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:09 PM Response to Reply #34 |
38. spoken as someone who has lived their whole life in america and in comfort |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:12 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. Okay, I'll bite...just how deperately poor are you... |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:15 PM Response to Reply #41 |
45. actually im at work, though i was below poor before i came to america. |
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malta blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:42 PM Response to Reply #45 |
57. Before my family "came to America" |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:45 PM Response to Reply #57 |
58. im not sure if you read correctly, i never sold any pits, my family did |
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malta blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:59 PM Response to Reply #58 |
60. I read the posts. |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:19 PM Response to Reply #57 |
64. That poster has said before he's from Britain, not Soviet-Era Romania |
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malta blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:48 PM Response to Reply #64 |
82. Oh hell, |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:13 PM Response to Reply #38 |
42. I grew up in a scuzzy neighborhood with scummy people who had plenty of pits |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:18 PM Response to Reply #38 |
63. The poster you referred to did not grow up in "comfort" |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:21 PM Response to Reply #63 |
65. nope never said i grew up entirely in britain, some of my life and we were not exactly welcome |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:24 PM Response to Reply #65 |
70. You lived in a country with health care, that is an industrialized as this |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:27 PM Response to Reply #70 |
72. lol you dont get it do you, you need to study up, we didnt get health care |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:30 PM Response to Reply #72 |
75. Roms are considered citizens and are able to use social welfare services |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:33 PM Response to Reply #75 |
78. claiming nothing, need to prove nothing to yu |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:30 PM Response to Reply #72 |
76. Roms are considered citizens and are able to use social welfare services |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:09 PM Response to Reply #30 |
36. Even the most primitive cultures...well, okay, YOU would be the most primitive, |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:06 PM Response to Reply #23 |
31. It is. He wants us to think he lives in the backwoods, eating |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:07 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. It appears that he/she/it also sold pits into dogfighting |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:09 PM Response to Reply #31 |
37. The people I know who have hunting dogs treat them quite well |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:11 PM Response to Reply #31 |
40. actually i still hunt so my kids can learn it, i can afford to buy meat if i want |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:13 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. Oh, I'm sure. You walked 25 miles to school in the snow and rain, |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:20 PM Response to Reply #43 |
49. lol you have no idea anything about me, you are showing you niavety about other cultures |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:21 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. Other cultures is not an excuse to abuse animals |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:22 PM Response to Reply #49 |
51. No! I had no idea! |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:24 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. lol then im sure you lectured them about killing animals for food |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:26 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. They eat a lot less meat than you're claiming to. |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:29 PM Response to Reply #53 |
54. if it works for them fine, we barely had room on the move for all us kids so the dogs tended to walk |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:31 PM Response to Reply #54 |
55. So, let me get this straight.... |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:33 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. lol im not the one playing poorer, lol just saying they are different people |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:23 PM Response to Reply #55 |
68. He grew up in an EU country |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:27 PM Response to Reply #55 |
73. He also thinks countries like Zimbabwe should be colonized by Western (ie white) nations |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:35 PM Response to Reply #73 |
80. lol you really are dumb arent you, if you look at the zimbabwe post |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:22 PM Response to Reply #49 |
67. Britain has alot of fast food and grocery stores -- as much as here |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:24 PM Response to Reply #67 |
69. wow really no id never have known that |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:25 PM Response to Reply #69 |
71. You're teh one saying you didn't -- you grew up in countries with social welfare nets |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:21 PM Response to Reply #31 |
66. He has said on here he grew up in Britain and is a Sheriff's Deputy in VA |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:30 PM Response to Reply #66 |
77. lol i think you will find i said i didnt spend all my childhood in the UK |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:34 PM Response to Reply #77 |
79. As Is aid in another posts: Roms, "Tinkers," etal are able to use social services |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:38 PM Response to Reply #79 |
81. lol tell you what, you go talk to the social services even in your area |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:58 PM Response to Reply #12 |
59. I always wondered why racing dogs weren't treated like Thoroughbred horses |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:01 PM Response to Reply #59 |
61. Thoughbred horses aren't treated all that great either |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:07 PM Response to Reply #61 |
62. Ah, well, there is that. Remember Ferdinand. |
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Gman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 09:50 PM Response to Reply #8 |
85. It wasn't disgusting the week I hit 3 different superfectas |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
4. Wish the same could be said for FL |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
5. Sooner the better......and hopefully the same will happen to horse racing. |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:29 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. Amen. |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
6. Good. |
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sandyj999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
15. YES!!!!! |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
21. So... What's happening to the animals? |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 12:52 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. well what do you think will happen to them |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:05 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. It was more of a rhetorical question |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:09 PM Response to Reply #29 |
35. Do you know how many dogs are exterminated to get 1 successful race at a track? |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:29 PM Response to Reply #21 |
74. They will be recycled into school supplies. |
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yesphan (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:56 PM Response to Reply #74 |
84. If the track(s) fail |
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LeftHander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
48. SAVE GAMBLING with MORE GAMBLING!!! nt |
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ShadesOfGrey (646 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
83. Thank Dog for that! |
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