Spunk84 wrote: »

There's loads of staffs on it, problem is lads is the way you word the advert. Donedeal themselves don't troll looking for these ads but people report them to DD, kinda like here on boards with report button.

If your advertising Lurchers and terriers best way to do it is stick up the pics, price and number/email. Most working folks will spot a working dog a mile away.

As for being deleted for being a "worker"' it's absurd. Would they stop advertising fishing rods because there a tool of killing an animal, same way a working dog will be used to retrieve or dispatch animals.:D

I don't use DD as it has been shown that they are anti's and would rather give my money somewhere else. The main site for selling working dogs North and South has always been BuyandSell IMO as most fellos will buy it instead of looking at it online.

dCorbus wrote: »

I've been lurking around this thread for a while, and I'm now going to stick my oar in!

Couple of points:

1. This is not an Animal Welfare forum, so why certain people keep bringing up puppy farms and other animal welfare issues escapes me.
2. DD are a private company / firm - They can and are perfectly entitled to decide what they do or do not wish to allow be advertised on their site. It is, after all, exactly that: Their site. Likewise, me, you, us, we can all take our business elsewhere where it may actually be wanted and "permitted" - That, likewise, is our perogative as consumers and customers.
3. If you disagree with DD's policies, you have, as I see it, three distinct options available to you:

1. Express your Concerns to the Owners; Have such concerns ignored; and Continue to use their Website regardless (This seems to be the option many have chosen);
2. Express your Concerns to the Owners; Have such concerns ignored; and Discontinue your use of their Website accordingly;

OR

3. Save your breath; Ignore their Existance and their peccadilloes; and Find Another Website which doesn't make commercial decisions based on personal, ideological, or misinformed beliefs.

(I know which option I'd be opting for - Hint: Number 3)

When we have long known pretty clearly, categorically, and unambiguously what DD's policies and prejudices are, why has so much bandwidth been taken up with discussing what is to all intents and purposes a done-deal (pun fully intended)?

Take your business elsewhere is my advice and let's not be providing DD with such air-time and working ourselves into a tizzy to the joy and delectation of the various anti's, tree-huggers, do-gooders, and general miscreants who may be lurking in woodwork.;):D

That said, ya can't beat a good bitching session!:rolleyes::D

dCorbus wrote: »

OK, this:



is exactly what I meant by this: let's not be providing DD with such air-time and working ourselves into a tizzy to the joy and delectation of the various anti's, tree-huggers, do-gooders, and general miscreants who may be lurking in woodwork!

This thread is on a hunting sub-forum of a shooting forum in a sports category - Excuse my confusion, but what in tarnation has that to do with "puppy farms". You are, franky and in my very humble opinion, doing nothing but stirring.

Not to be back-seat modding, but really, you should be over in the Animal & Pet Issues Forum - where such matters as animal welfare, cruelty issues, and particulars such as puppy farms and the surrounding issues can be rightly discussed in their natural habitat. You seem to have got lost on your way over to the forum!



Jeez, no one here is advocating any form of cruelty to an animal.
There are plenty of dog-owners (working and non-working dogs) on this site who would no doubt, let's say, take a very dim view on the mistreatment of their beloved dogs and personally I wouldn't like to experience their approbation if I was involved in any form of abuse of dogs (which for the record I'm not of course).

You seem to be in the wrong forum from what I can tell - and you really are preaching to the converted when it comes to canine welfare around these here parts.

But this again is all about animal welfare - and at the risk of a slap of the wrist for backseat modding, that not a relevant topic for this forum and you are, at this stage, derailing the thread and, from where I'm sitting, beginning to look awfully like a troll. Sorry if I'm misjudging your intentions, but the signs are all there IMvHO.