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backwoodsbob

(6,001 posts)
12. that's about where I am
Sat Apr 25, 2015, 03:30 PM
Apr 2015

I get alert swarmed here...I have my not friends here......because i simply wont play the popularity contest here.

I remember when DU2 was the place to be.We had activists,we were the place to be on the left.Hell,I was one of and still am one of the leading activists for the no kill shelter movement in SW Virginia.I quit bothering to post here about it because the grief from the *in crowd* that I didn't bow to wasn't worth it.

I placed two Siberians this week ....different shelters...we worked them together and they seem to get along great.A 4 year old and an eight month old.She took right to the youngin.
I don't bother posting shit like this here anymore.....it isn't worth the grief

Then DU3 and the jury system happened and this place became a popularity contest where you had to kiss the right asses or get banned.....I quit giving a shit about this place.

99% of the people here don't have a clue what activism is.Getting up at 4 in the morning on a Sunday to feed the animals at our no kill(and we have some wierd animals)....leaving there to drive a Siberian 65 miles to see if it is compatible with another Siberian......to haul them both to a screened adopter who wants to meet them so they may or may not adopt.....to unhaul them all and get back to the shelter in time to feed everything....and I mean thing.We have three adopted raccoons who cant be released...an armadillo...goats...over two hundred cats.....over one hundred dogs.....a squirrel(dont ask)minks.....you name it...we have it...all paid for out of donations and 90% of the donations come from our own pockets.

That is activism.

But if you don't kiss the right ass here you are a troll so don't worry about it.

I basically just come here now for the foodfights.

Recommended and we had better find a better candidate or it's all over. NYC_SKP Apr 2015 #1
Clinton will be the end of my involvement with what is called the Democratic party. L0oniX Apr 2015 #11
BBV went quiet after he left us imo. It is still a massive issue. n/t PowerToThePeople Apr 2015 #2
Yep. SusanCalvin Apr 2015 #4
Hi Susan! PowerToThePeople Apr 2015 #5
Oh, yeah, HAVA was a well-orchestrated scam SusanCalvin Apr 2015 #6
In my state, Washington, PowerToThePeople Apr 2015 #7
Sounds good, SusanCalvin Apr 2015 #8
With a randomly generated number that you can PowerToThePeople Apr 2015 #9
Yep. SusanCalvin Apr 2015 #10
I've been there, I'm here. I'm standing. LWolf Apr 2015 #3
that's about where I am backwoodsbob Apr 2015 #12
It's a different place, to be sure. nt LWolf Apr 2015 #22
KR28 Octafish Apr 2015 #13
Kicked Enthusiast Apr 2015 #14
You weren't even a member of DU when Andy Stephens passed riderinthestorm Apr 2015 #15
actually I was very much here backwoodsbob Apr 2015 #16
Then you'd know that actually Andy did get the surgery and in time riderinthestorm Apr 2015 #17
actually that's not quite right backwoodsbob Apr 2015 #18
I'm not kicking your self-serving thread again. riderinthestorm Apr 2015 #20
but you did backwoodsbob Apr 2015 #21
this is why I don't bother here anymore backwoodsbob Apr 2015 #19
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