If you're honest with yourself, many of these "newcomers" ignore the entire forum's rules, and the webpage, just to join and post. It's rude to do so. Do you think if I went to any forum on the internet and went against their principles that I wouldn't get flak for it?
As I said, it's extremely rude to join a board without reading it's posting rules, it's guidelines, it's principles, etc. And I can understand that, to an extent, if there's a serious situation, but most people don't consider caging to be a serious situation. It's laziness not to read the site.
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When you were at school which teachers did you learn best from and want to listen to?
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The best teacher I had was a curmudgeon of a man who everyone in the school feared. His classes were the hardest, he cut us no slack, and he taught above a college level in high school. (Imagine my chagrin when my junior year of college, he was thanked in my text book.) I learned more there than in any other class, and won a national championship in the subject. :P
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Otherwise we are failing pigs we could potentially help.
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I take exception to this. The only people "failing" are owners who are willing to accept substandard care practices to save their internet feelings.
This is one of the few boards I frequent anymore, because all of the other boards are fluffy little clouds of sunshine, who will pat anyone on the back, regardless of their responsibility to their animals. It's refreshing to have a board that's about
guinea pigs and not their over-sensitive owners.