Warning Feedpet.net is a possible fraud website

Posted by: Jan S  :  Category: Animal sites, news, strange

I was contacted by email by someone to help promote feedpet.net so I checked it out. First I went to the website and all they want people to do is click on the “feed me” button. When I hover over it, it looks like a wordpress ad plugin, that was red flag number one. Next it does not take you anywhere but the same place with a thanks for clicking. If it was a legitimate ad clicking for money then the click should take you to the ad being clicked on. This looks like an attempt to commit fraud on an advertiser. Next I looked for any information as to who they are or who they donate to. All the clicks take me to other websites that are full of ads and little information. So then I looked up the Whois on the domain name and here is where it got interesting.

The domain name was bought in Poland and the website is hosted there too. Looks like they have no interest in animal shelters in the USA at all. So save your time and energy and DON’T VISIT FEEDPET.NET. All you are doing by clicking on those buttons and ads is lining the pockets of someone in Poland.

If you happen to know that feedpet.net is a legit website then please leave a comment and let me know. You will need to show some sort of proof like a link to a 501 non-profit listing or the actual shelter they sent money to.

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Mystery pain solved

Posted by: Jan S  :  Category: dog, pet health, strange

My little Min Pin had a mystery pain that would come and go over a period of several weeks. He would walk hunched over at times for about an hour and then be OK. I knew the pain had to be muscle related but where was he hurting and how did he get injured?

After several weeks I finally discovered the cause…………it was his dog collar, or to be more precise him jerking on his collar when he was tied up. You see our neighbor is putting up a new fence and is taking forever to get it finished so we had been tying up my little guy outside under a huge shade tree for about 20 minutes a few times a day. What we didn’t find out until a few days ago is that he was lunging at the end of his tie out to get to a bird that liked to visit the part of the lawn, just beyond his reach. Each time he did that he would injure his neck.

Then I had to go and look for another alternate dog collar. So my quest began for dog collars. I looked at every type of padded collars and even the rolled leather dog collars. What I ended up buying was a padded dog harness that was designed for dogs to be worn in cars. Unlike the normal dog harness which is nothing more than an added strap that goes around the ribs attached to a dog collar, this harness has a padded breast plate that the straps are attached to. There is no pressure on his neck.

Now I can’t wait until the neighbor finishes putting up the fence. I think it will take another month because of the heat wave we are in right now. He has the posts in but he needs to run the wire fence for the entire 500 feet yet.

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Watch those claims of non-profits

Posted by: Jan S  :  Category: animals, horseback riding, news, riding, strange

As an animal lover I am aware of the many animal rescues, therapy organizations and other non-profits that beg for donations. There is one therapy non-profit that seems to always be on a horse message board that I frequent. The Director of the place is Kari Ann Owen. She is either looking for horses or trying to find retirement homes for the horses that they have used up. At least that is the way it seems. She also has shown, in her posts on the message board that she is trying to get involved in her “students” jumping the horses but has no training in jumping nor knowledge in choosing the right horses for the work.

Since she frequently posts the name and web URL of her non-profit I thought I would finally check her out. Her website is at www.freewildhorse.com and is called “Wildhorse.” On that page she gives herself the title of Dr. Kari Ann Owen, Ph.D, which sounds good on paper. But what is she a doctor in? Yes I found that out too, and it is not on the Wildhorse website. I Googled her name and found lots and lots of stuff. First she is a doctor of religion. Her personal website is at www.kariannowen.com and she shares a lot, maybe too much. Her writings on her abusive sexual encounters with her father and her journey into the bondage culture was a bit more than I wanted to know about her.

Yes I know that people do like to use titles added to their names just to promote things. I also know that I don’t like it when people use it to mislead others. Throwing that Ph.D on that horse therapy page makes it sound like she is highly qualified to run an organization like that. What she should do is add on that page what the Ph.D was earned in. It would make her sound more honest to those whom she is begging donations from.

Like I mentioned before, I Googled her name and found out she is a prolific writer with a passion about writing about her life and the mess it was in. Reading her writings made me question if this older woman (she is in her late 60’s to early 70’s) has it all together upstairs. She has some rather odd perceptions of life and not many of them are main stream. I found this rather odd piece that she wrote about her conversion from a Jew to Islam while blaming society for her fathers behavior. Then there is the short film she has made. She pleads with Bush and future presidents not to nuke Iran. I guess she doesn’t care about other countries getting nuked.

Yes I found out too much about a woman that begs for money, donations and help with horses online.

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