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Old June 1st, 2007, 02:26 PM
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I always try to treat everyone with respect and integrity - in the same way I myself would want to be treated. or the most part, that is how I see the Board and I have met some wonderful people here. If I can help someone , I do it but if I see a post that is asking something I consider absurd, I prob will not say that to them and using an example of a byb who is seeking help with say new kittens, I do give them advice but also suggest they see a vet. I am not a vet - just someone with a lot of people medical knowledge which is not the same thing and does not always cross over and mega cat and some dog and lots of bunny experience! If someone is nasty to me, I try to hold my clicking fingers on the keyboard but sometimes I get my Irish up so to speak and will say what I think - in the most polite way that I can possibly do so.

I loathe threads and posts that are impolite and nasty. I know that I myself can be sensitive but when it comes to the health of pets, sometimes there is no such thing as oversensitive, I often find we get into debates over side issues or irrelevant subjects re the issue at hand. And I am as guilty as the next person when I continue it and sometimes I get so frustrated that I forget and do that! So, I am well aware of my weaknesses but I do try my best and that is all we can ask of anyone - that and please be polite and kind!

You know that poster (from the book of the same name)- I used to have it in my office - Everything I know I learned in Kindergarten, I think that is not a bad code of conduct for a bulletin board. In case you forgot it, here it is:

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.
These are the things I learned:

* Share everything.
* Play fair.
* Don't hit people.
* Put things back where you found them.
* Clean up your own mess.
* Don't take things that aren't yours.
* Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
* Wash your hands before you eat.
* Flush.
* Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
* Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
* Take a nap every afternoon.
* When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
* Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
* Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
* And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
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