In case anyone is wondering...

[merlinsmom13]

You have to be kidding Wendy, you too?? WTH? Did Antoinette forget she was a mod here too?

[merlinsmom13]

Sorry, I felt I needed to mention names ;-)

[Honesty]

I was the first Becky!!

[keepsmiling]

It's ok..who cares! Thanks to you great folks we have PP!

[Honesty]

It's ok..who cares! Thanks to you great folks we have PP!

[Animalman2046]

Sorry but I think is so sad when grown adults behave so immature. The purpose of the sites or forums is for people to get together to talk about their birds and other animals that they love. This one gets mad at that one and so on.........how childish. I am a member of a couple of forums now for a few years and I see this happen all the time and I have to be honest and say it makes me mad. Yes lots of the time it is a control issue or I just don't like you so I am gonna ban you. It makes one want to quit the forums all together. I have great hopes for this site that the administrators and moderators will not stoop to this level of banning people just because you have the power to do so. Don't get me wrong sometimes it becomes necessary to ban someone who has over stepped themselves or seriously broken the rules or so forth. I am not opposed to banning someone for a real legitimate reason but this petty caddy behavior has to stop. I hope this is the site that will be truly different and set a example to the other sites to grow up or please delete your site all together........anyone with half a brain doesn't want to be a member of that kind of site anyway.

[Honesty]

Thankyou Ron. You can rest assured that there will be absolutely NO unnecessary banning on here! Our aim is to make you all feel very welcome and to feel part of our community

[roxynoodle]

We have good intentions that our forum is a positive place and can be a relaxed atmosphere. People hopefully can feel free to post as much as they'd like, to ask questions without being made to feel like morons, can make light jokes without people getting their bristles up, can share information without members getting offended and so on. I know it's not a perfect world and there will be problems, but we will deal with them as they arise.

I've been a member of other forums, for motorcycles and compact tractors for several years and haven't seen the sorts of drama on some of the animal forums. Animal care is more controversial I guess as they are our family members. But, we could all remind ourselves from time to time that when others contribute to posts that for the most part they are trying to be helpful, not offensive. I had some posts about my dog's aggressiveness on another forum and many offered advice. It was not always good advice, but was given in a heartfelt way, I was sure of it. Someone who earns her living training dogs tough got quite upset about some trainers who were recommended. I just told her, I know, it's ok, I gave them "likes" anyway because they were trying to help Let's please all remember that. We are going to disagree from time to time, but if the advice was given with good intentions, there isn't any reason not to be courteous.

[plax]

Well said, Audrey!

[Pinkbirdy]

Wow ,Im floored reading this !! Im so sorry Honesty and Plax . You were so well liked. Im just learning people are on alot of different forums [to each his own ] if thats their thing right ? I enjoy the different people and takes on things . Im just shaking my head at this