After a week of productive and insightful blogging, my co-blogger has decided that blogging on this established blog just is not for her.
Liz hopes to return to blogging at some point, but at this point in her life, she really does not feel she can do the kind of work she wants on this blog.
So it is with sadness that we must say goodbye to Liz for now.
Someday, she may return with her own blog.
For those of you who enjoyed her posts, please leave some words of encouragement on this post.
I hate to lose her voice, but she feels that this is right.
And I look forward to her future work.
I’m sure many of you do.
Liz, I’m sorry to see you go! I hope you’ll blog on your own, because I did enjoy reading the posts that you put up here. And I enjoyed meeting your pups, too. All the best to you!
Illegitimi non carborundum est.
Dear Liz
I wish to thank you for your contribution to Scottie’s site. I enjoyed your thoughts and insights very much. I was disappointed to note people criticising the “emotional” content of your posts as dog ownership is about emotions and feelings.
Our dog has just died after a very happy and healthy 16 years and the loss we feel now is happening because of the joy and emotional richness that she brought into our lives. Dogs aren’t just things like cars or motorbikes but are a part of or an extension of ourselves and our families. Perhaps that is why so many of us hate puppy mills etc that turn these wonderful creatures into money making machines.
I apologise for the Bills of this world and the aggressive ladies who wished to argue with you regarding dog laws rather than honour the fact that you had a different point of view to theirs (a courtesy you extended to them). As a beginner you certainly deserved better treatment from these people.
We are all guests on this site and as guests we have an obligation to show our hosts a certain degree of courtesy.
I am writing to let you know that your contribution to this site meant something to me and many others I am sure.
I wish you good fortune Liz and hope to see you back one day. You will be missed.
Thank you for your considerate response.
It has been an honor and joy to be a contribute.
Deepest thanks to all.
I am happy to take chances in life, it makes for a stronger character.
And I thank everyone for the feedback, positive and negative.
(Negative feedback makes me nostalgic for school- I hope to go for my master’s soon.)
I truly enjoyed blogging, but in this venue I cannot be myself without being compared to Scottie. To say that I am different is unnecessary!
I have excitement around the idea of my own blog because of all of the fun I had here, as well as for the sharing of ideas, but this is not the right context.
The whole picture lacks a cohesion or unity.
If you understand, that is great… if not, then think of it what you will.
Thanks again for the ride.
For whatever it’s worth, I like Bill. I get a kick out of him.
I give him credit for speaking his mind.
It is hard to explain the process of accepting both positive and negative feedback, but four years of monthly critiques in school teaches one how to extract solid information from various points of view while having tolerance for the differences in others.
Bill, speak your mind, but temper it a little and you’ll be a stronger critic.
The world needs critics, be a critic and not a troll.
Damn.
Well, I’ll take a daily dose of Liz, too when she has her own blog site. Thnx for the time you spent here.
Aggressive lady here. Or, you can call me an obnoxious nasty bitch if you like. I really don’t care, I’ve been called worse. I hold a number of unpopular, un-pc opinions.
I’m sorry if you felt I was picking on you, Liz, but I was not. You are very obviously a ‘pet person.’ Pet people outnumber breeders by manymany to few. They have a strong voice when it comes to dog legislation. Many pet people have absolutely no clue about dog breeding. That’s not their fault, but it leaves them open to believing propaganda. I cannot educate the pet people of the world about dog breeding unless I know why they hold the opinions they do and what information they use to formulate them. I try, on my blog, to write about breeding in an educational way, since most of my own readers are pet people. Unfortunately, IME, most pet people are sheep, they believe what people in ‘authority’ tell them, without demanding proof or even thinking it over very hard. I know this because I was a pet person, too, and I was a sheep. I wasn’t picking on you, I was hoping for some indication that you weren’t a sheep.
Jess,
I believe that your efforts to educate are sincere, and you do this, but it can be done more effectively if you keep an open mind. My two cents.
No harm, no foul. Seriously.
Oooo, that makes me the other aggressive lady!
Liz, what I wrote wasn’t negative feedback. That would be like “You didn’t write this clearly enough.” What I wrote was asking for supporting evidence, to be convinced that I should change my mind.
I am very willing to be shown that I’m wrong. I don’t know you or your dogs and I have no right to make any personal statements about you. I do, however, mourn the fact that asking for evidence to support a conclusion is seen as aggressive. It’s not. It’s the foundation of rationality.
Liz is finished with the blog.
I wouldn’t expect her to answer that.
Liz, I haven’t had the chance to read you much and only exchanged on one subject… You ask questions, you propose some ideas and this is a proof of intelligence. I truely hope that some day you will do something on your side with your own colors so that you will enjoy more this chanel of communications (blogs). I wish you success and happyness in all aspects of your future !
(From the French Canadian guy in Quebec !)
well i will certainly miss Liz’s posts. They spoke to me – I felt like I wasn’t alone in how I felt about the relationship with my dogs.
I’d love to read any future blogging!
liz, i am so sorry –
Ur visit precisely overlapped with my losing all Net-service, short of a few snatched hours at the library, for over a week.
(all i did was check my e-mail, and catch some news.)
so i got to see U introduced, read *one* post today,
and now i find U are leaving – what a pity. :-(
i wish i had been here for the visit, i would have enjoyed getting acquainted.
i do hope U begin a blog, and i am disappointed to see U go.
all my best,
— terry
terry pride, APDT-Aus, apdt#1827, CVA, TDF