u/SeasDiver

Okay folks, buckle up as this is likely to be a heavily commented on and contentious post. We are looking at tentatively offering the following classifications/overviews of breeder types (order matters only in so much as the last one is the one likely to generate lots and lots of spirited discussion (keep it civil or bans will be handed out):

• Responsible Breeder: See reddit.com/r/dogs/wiki/identifying_a_responsible_breeder
• Rescue Whelper: Someone who takes in pregnant dogs, and helps them have and raise their puppies. Puppies (and mom) are expected to be age appropriately spayed/neutered.
• Back Yard Breeder: An individual who breeds dogs with the primary purpose being financial gain.
• Puppy Mill: Like a back yard breeder but with multiple dogs.
• Hobby Breeder (we are open to different names for this as well such as one-off breeders).
  • This name does not relate to the IRS term for hobby businesses
  • Plans a single litter for non-financial reasons.
  • They are willing to try and follow best practices even if they do not perform all recommended testing per OFA or similar recommendations.  
  • They will not breed too young of a dog.
  • They will no breed too old of a dog.
  • They will not breed if the dog has known or suspected health conditions.
  • They are not randomly breeding mixed dogs
  • They are willing to be educated on breeding reasons to be avoided (e.g. breeding for color).
  • They will not breed high risk scenarios (e.g. double dapple)

As I am sure the community is going to be very vocal about "Hobby Breeders", so is the mod team. In some ways it comes down to the "we know an obscenity when we see it" legal definition. We want a flexible definition that excludes breeders operating in bad faith but that is also not going to result in rules lawyering (some of the mods don't like a bulleted list like I have above and it will not likely be part of the final definition) to justify on how someone is not a BYB but is a hobby breeder. For example a previously banned breeder has already said "hey you are changing the rules to allow hobby breeders, let me back in". Well, we have always allowed it, but they clearly fall under a BYB definition.

Please see u/FaelingJester's comment here about some of what the mod team is trying to accomplish and balance. Ultimately, we want the best for the puppies. Driving people away from this sub does not accomplish that.

We do NOT want those breeding in bad faith that don't care about health (primarily care about money) regularly participating. But we also don't want to drive away those that are here to genuinely learn how to do better or have been placed in bad circumstances due to others decision making.

Are their additional breeder categories you would like to see?

Let the polite flame wars aka discussion commence.

Meeting Topics:

 Using gRPC in LabVEW

Damien Grey

(Rescheduled from last quarter)

 gRPC is a general purpose binary remote procedure protocol with support over many languages. After a brief introduction to gRPC and protocol buffers, this talk will discuss the LabVIEW implementation, current issues with it, workarounds, and special considerations for using it on RT targets.

 CI/CD with LabVIEW Containers

Elijah Kerry

Eli will demo a CI/CD package he's been developing.  The package offers easy setup, and includes features like automated unit testing and diff reports!

6x6 Open Mic!

Have something to say?  We will open the floor to the membership for 36 minutes of short presentations.  Do you have a trick, technique, or tool you're dying to show off?  You get six minutes to say your piece.  First come, first served, so put your idea in the comments.  Or just show up with one.

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With the sub under new management, one thing that has not been done in the past is set rules for the sub.

So far the two we have in mind are:

• Posts must be related to LabVIEW or NI Products
• We don't do students homework. Students looking for help must show their work and ask for specific assistance as to what they don't understand or are stuck on.

r/DogAdvice is one of the larger dog subs and a bit more accepting of posts that are forbidden on other dog subs - specifically being more open to medical questions. Despite that, we do have a number of rules on what we accept or not in the sub such as No Raw food, R+ (reward only) training, etc... that are more inline with the majority of large scale dog sub-reddits.

What we want in moderators are people that can review and review/approve/remove posts and comments while maintaining a general neutrality in responses. We want sub member to be able to ask questions so that their dogs get the help they need, and removing rude/aggressive responses even when we may personally happen to agree with a commenter that is saying "WTF are you thinking?"

We are probably a little to easy in applying the ban hammer, but our policy is that with extremely rare exceptions, ban appeals will be handled by a non-banning moderator, and they can be overruled by other mods. We do our best to keep our ego's in check and it is not personal if another mod overrules or shortens ban choices. More often then not, we do tend to uphold other mod's decisions as the team has worked together for years and tends to mostly be inline with each other. With tricky situations, we discuss it and majority usually rules.

What we want in mods at a minimum is:

• Review the mod queue, approving or removing as appropriate
• Answer modmails (neutral language is preferred, people get insanely upset at times, no reason to fuel fire)
• Read/review comments as you peruse the sub posts
• Mark posts NSFW as appropriate
  • We are not NSFW in the traditional sense of sex/nudity but we get posts with poop/wounds/dog nipples...
• New mods should always feel free to suggest rule changes, automod tweaks, etc...

If joining this team interests you, please let us know.

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By its nature, this sub deals with death, a sad and upsetting topic. However, there have been a number of graphic text description posts that have been upsetting to some. We ask that you flair the post appropriately so that users can avoid reading those posts as desired.

Current AI technologies (Large Language Models) are known to hallucinate (make up information). They can NOT be prevented from doing so (proven mathematically). There are numerous instances of users being led astray by information provided by an LLM AI leading to loss of life or other harm. As such, the current consensus amongst the moderation team is that users should not be recommending AI's for grief support or to act as a sanity check on information provided by veterinary professionals.

Posts/Comments recommending usage of AI will be removed. Repeat offenders may be banned.

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We are looking for volunteers to join the mod team. Prior Reddit moderation experience is not needed.

Moderators are expected to help maintain the community:

• Mark posts as NSFW
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5 years ago today, after having lost 9 rescue pups in 48 hours, I wrote the below poem/statement. I had gotten Coco and her pups about a week and a half earlier. Pulled from a shelter in rural Texas, the pups were born overnight the day they were scheduled to be pulled from the shelter. The shelter had no indoor runs, and was not funded well enough to have preventative medications on hand, and for that matter, relied on donations for food despite being local government run. Coco gave birth to 11, but one died on transport. 10 made it to us. 5 years ago today, all that was left was momma Coco, and little Julio. 9 pups in bags in my freezer, waiting for us to see if I would save Julio against all odds.

5 years a week from now, I will bury the 9 pups in the mistaken belief that the dying was done. Julio will have opened his eyes, he will have taken his first steps. And then he and his momma will show signs of neurological distemper and have to be euthanized. They will be cremated together. This will be end up being a year in which I lose 37 fosters dogs, and a 9 month period in which I lose 40 (3 at the end of December). I will take a break after this litter to give the disease a chance to die out in my home, and then my next litter, a litter of 12, will come out of a well funded shelter with the same damn disease (plus several others). Losing an entire litter of 12 immediately after a litter of 9. Plus another 4 out of a litter of 5.

This anniversary is a double emotional whammy as I lost my father 4 weeks ago.

At this point, I have lost only 1 of my personal (permanent) dogs, Athena. 97 fosters in my care, and 15 more within 16 days of leaving my care, went to the Rainbow Bridge instead of furever homes. Even if we assume that all the adult fosters were the same age as Athena (12 years, 4 months), the average age of the dogs that have died in my care is less than 3 months of age. Neonates are so damn fragile, especially being born in shelters, in ditches, parking lots, alleyways, etc... Facebook memories just keep bringing up the deaths.

Also in the last week, I received notice that Akeela had passed away. 9 years and 10 months ago, I will spend 10 hours in the car (5 hours each way), driving in storms, to rescue a momma and her 10 newborns from a shelter. Momma's intake paperwork will say "Pregnant?" and she will answer that question 2 days later. 2 days after that, we had to put a muzzle on her to be able to load her in my car. She was terrified for her pups in that shelter, designed for a capacity of 100, that had 273 intakes in the previous month and only 93 outbounds (return to owner, transfer to rescue, or adopted). We got her to my house, unloaded her pups into a pool, and you could see her visibly relax as she realized she and her pups were safe. They became our Jungle Book litter, and Akeela will get adopted by friends. I would get frequent opportunities to see him at the farmers market for 2 - 3 years before they moved out of the country. Always got photo updates of him for the last almost 10 years. Such a big goofball. And now, yet another loss. He got almost 10 years he would not have had I not rescued him. But I am so tired of the losses that keep piling up.

Please let the dying stop... by SeasDiver

Because you abandoned or surrendered your dog when she became pregnant

Because you did not deworm her

Because you did not use flea and tick preventative

Because you do not vote for people that will fund the shelter enough for them to be able to give preventatives on intake

I am the one who saved your dog when she had 11 puppies

I am the one that is crying as each puppy slips away from me due to anemia from hookworms

I and my vet are the ones using dewormers in pups that are too young for them to try and save them

I am the one that will be burying at least 9 more puppies in my angel garden

I am the one pouring heart and soul into momma as she mourns her lost pups

I am the one treating her for tick borne illnesses

I am the one staying up all night fighting to save the remaining pups as I feed them since it is no longer safe for momma to do so

5 years ago today, after having lost 9 rescue pups in 48 hours, I wrote the below poem/statement. I had gotten Coco and her pups about a week and a half earlier. Pulled from a shelter in rural Texas, the pups were born overnight the day they were scheduled to be pulled from the shelter. The shelter had no indoor runs, and was not funded well enough to have preventative medications on hand, and for that matter, relied on donations for food despite being local government run. Coco gave birth to 11, but one died on transport. 10 made it to us. 5 years ago today, all that was left was momma Coco, and little Julio. 9 pups in bags in my freezer, waiting for us to see if I would save Julio against all odds.

5 years a week from now, I will bury the 9 pups in the mistaken belief that the dying was done. Julio will have opened his eyes, he will have taken his first steps. And he and his momma will show signs of neurological distemper and have to be euthanized. They will be cremated together. This will be end up being a year in which I lose 37 fosters dogs, and a 9 month period in which I lose 40 (3 at the end of December). I will take a break after this litter to give the disease a chance to die out in my home, and then my next litter, a litter of 12, will come out of a well funded shelter with the same damn disease (plus several others). Losing an entire litter of 12 immediately after a litter of 9. Plus another 4 out of a litter of 5.

This anniversary is a double emotional whammy as I lost my father 4 weeks ago.

At this point, I have lost only 1 of my personal (permanent) dogs, Athena. 97 fosters in my care, and 15 more within 16 days of leaving my care, went to the Rainbow Bridge instead of furever homes. Even if we assume that all the adult fosters were the same age as Athena (12 years, 4 months), the average age of the dogs that have died in my care is less than 3 months of age. Neonates are so damn fragile, especially being born in shelters, in ditches, parking lots, alleyways, etc... Facebook memories just keep bring up the deaths.

Also in the last week, I received notice that Akeela had passed away. 9 years and 10 months ago, I will spend 10 hours in the car (5 hours each way), driving in storms, to rescue a momma and her 10 newborns from a shelter. Momma's intake paperwork will say "Pregnant?" and she will answer that question 2 days later. 2 days after that, we had to put a muzzle on her to be able to load her in my car. She was terrified for her pups in that shelter, designed for a capacity of 100, that had 273 intakes in the previous month and only 93 outbounds (return to owner, transfer to rescue, or adopted). We got her to my house, unloaded her pups into a pool, and you could see her visibly relax as she realized she and her pups were safe. They became our Jungle Book litter, and Akeela will get adopted by friends. I would get frequent opportunities to see him at the farmers market for 2 - 3 years before they moved out of the country. Always got photo updates of him for the last almost 10 years. Such a big goofball. And now, yet another loss. He got almost 10 years he would not have had I not rescued him. But I am so tired of the losses that keep piling up.

Please let the dying stop... by SeasDiver

Because you abandoned or surrendered your dog when she became pregnant

Because you did not deworm her

Because you did not use flea and tick preventative

Because you do not vote for people that will fund the shelter enough for them to be able to give preventatives on intake

I am the one who saved your dog when she had 11 puppies

I am the one that is crying as each puppy slips away from me due to anemia from hookworms

I and my vet are the ones using dewormers in pups that are too young for them to try and save them

I am the one that will be burying at least 9 more puppies in my angel garden

I am the one pouring heart and soul into momma as she mourns her lost pups

I am the one treating her for tick borne illnesses

I am the one staying up all night fighting to save the remaining pups as I feed them since it is no longer safe for momma to do so