good post on craigslist
http://mankato.craigslist.org/pet/589358289.html oops - wasn't logged in... |
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Dawn - I've seen similar posts (OK, language a bit less strident - somebody must have been having a bad day  ) on the Milwaukee Craig's list, but usually with contact info for an allbreed rescue, things like that. I wish, instead of trolling these lists across the country and indiscriminantly flagging and nagging, depending on the situation, (evidence on an OES list, not so much here) we could have a coordinated effort to put and keep rescue contact info on the various Craig's lists. I know OES aren't high volume, but it would get the point out there and let people know we exist and how to get in touch without resorting to outright harrassment.
I'd be happy to do so here in Milwaukee. Anybody else care to cover their local Craig's list? Anybody gifted in writing these kinds of notices who could come up with appropriate verbiage and be willing to share? And while we (well, the person in Mankato  ) are on the topic of mixes - I have no problem with breed rescues placing mixes. When I volunteered in NY, some of our best placements were mixes - to be honest they usually had better temperaments than many of the purebreds we placed. A Sibe x OES mixed bitch named Elsa particularly got under my skin, but I digress. Point being, we called them what they are. And if we had to guess as to the other part of their parentage, we called them mostlies. Or in the case of "probably no OES there, but it's fuzzy, sweet and cute and we want to save it" we called them "wannabes". People adopted these dogs. It was never an issue.
I was looking at what was out there in OES on Petfinder hoping to refer someone who had contacted us looking for a rescue OES to someone else and I was shocked to see obvious mixes referred to as OES. And I do mean obvious. We would crucify a backyard breeder who tried to pass a mix off as an OES. Should our standards be any less? If someone is having a problem doing a breed identification there are any number of breeders and retired breeders involved in rescue whose opinion you can ask. I know some of them truly are borderline. Many of the tailed ones are actually probably mixes. Some of them look enough like an OES to pass. I know I brought one such foster with me to a certain New England picnic and had a certain rescue authority set me straight as to his parentage. But then Annie has never had a problem calling a spade a spade But the two I'm thinking of weren't even close. What happens when the people involved take them to their vet, obedience class or heaven forbid try to ILP them and get told they were lied to? And not even by a shelter, which could perhaps be excused for not knowing what an OES looks like, but by a breed rescue. Ouch!  
Just something to please consider. Kristine |
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