Submission Policy
Please review our new hate mail policy before submitting your message. In the past we have published any and all hate mail that we have received, but due to intense boredom we now require hate mail to meet certain standards to be published on our website:
- The message must contain some semblance of proper grammar and spelling; if we feel that English might not be your first language, that you are mentally incompetent, or that you were under the influence of a controlled substance when the message was written, we will not respond, in fairness to you, wishing not to have an overwhelming advantage in an exchange that is already going to make you look like an idiot.
- The message must contain some form of original thought on your part; if we've seen it before, there's not much reason to publish it again. We'd prefer you read through our other submissions to discover the error of your thinking, rather than wasting your time and ours, which is more valuable than yours.
- The message must contain assertions that seem to make logical sense; note that these assertions do not need to actually make sense, they just need to appear to. We'll take care of debunking them and explaining the flaws in your point of view.
- If you wish to make threats against our animals, we request that you issue them directly to the Forks Police Department, thereby saving us the trouble of forwarding your information to them.
- Any personal attacks or name-calling should be well formulated and amusing, and should be relevant to the person to whom they are directed, as opposed to revealing your own obsessions, fetishes, and perversions.
We also ask that before you send your message, you pause and ask yourself what doing so will accomplish. You will not change our minds about what we do, and hearing from you will only make us more committed to the animals we rescue and the people we make safer as a result. You will not sway our supporters; when we publish hate mail, it typically results in a surge of support and increased donations, which we hesitate to tell you because we're happy to have the money. Consider that if you truly understood what we do, you wouldn't have such a problem with it, and ask yourself if there is not something more valuable you could do with your time, because seriously, no one here cares what you think, and if we didn't get a good laugh at your expense and weren't able to use your message in the furtherance of our own, we'd never give you a second thought.
Posted on April 5, 2010 | Link
From Paul
re. last week's article about a misguided sap who rescues dangerous dogs.
Boy, I'd hate to live next door to THAT place. Talk about bringing down the neighborhood. A bunch of dangerous ugly dogs on a one acre lot? I bet this guy doesn't have many friends. He can't possibly have a girlfriend, unless she's a dog kook like he is. Freaks.
BTW, those dogs should all be killed. Especially the dogs that have bitten people.
Paul
Tacoma WA
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Paul -- would you like to talk to my neighbors? I couldn't do what I do without the support of my community.
My dogs are not ugly; I suppose beauty's in the eye of the beholder, but unless you think dogs are ugly in general, you can hardly say that mine are uglier than average. Most people are surprised at how good they look. But you are right about a few things: while I have a lot of acquaintances and casual friendships, I only have a small handful of close friends. I'm more interested in quality than quantity, so I'm pretty happy with the friends I have. I'm also single, for a lot of reasons, the main one being a lack of time for or interest in a relationship at the moment, but your theorizing about that says a lot more about you than it does me -- why so concerned with my personal life? Voyeurism much? Were you hoping for another article about a celebrity sex scandal? Sorry to disappoint; this must be very frustrating for you.
As far as the dogs being killed, the law says they don't have to be. In most cases the person who was bitten by the dog is the one who places the animal here, and the law allows for it. If you have a problem with that, contact your state representative. And rest assured, we'll hold onto your information in the unlikely event that something was to happen to any of the dogs here.
Steve
Posted on April 4, 2010 | Link
From Cathy
Subject: Boiling mad over dog rescuer
Dear People Magazine,
I'm outraged over the man who prevents dangerous dogs from being destroyed. Does he get some kind of an ego-trip from this? Does it make him feel like God to spare the life of these dogs? How else to explain such irrational behavior? I'm infuriated that these horrible dogs are allowed to live. It's like pardoning murderers.
Cathy B----
OKC Oklahoma
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Cathy -- my dogs haven't killed anyone, and they're dogs, not people. That means they don't know right from wrong. They act on instinct. Usually they get into trouble because they've been abused or grossly mishandled. Sometimes dogs also misunderstand a particular situation and react inappropriately, and since they have few tools apart from their teeth, it often means a bite; if they were people, they might do something less destructive, like sending an abusive email to a complete stranger who doesn't care what they think of him because he recognizes their intellectual limitations.
Steve
Posted on April 4, 2010 | Link