With a title like that I imagine many of my readers are expecting
another episode of "As the Humane Advocate Protectors Squirm". Not
this time however today's blog is about someone who is of a like mind as our
least favorite “humane advocate protectors” so it doesn’t surprise me at all
that she stooped to behavior that is clearly bad, dishonest, immoral and
improper so as to smear a long standing, well-respected greyhound adoption
organization and make herself appear as a social media savior of
greyhounds.
I’ve been involved with Greyhound Pets of America (GPA) on various
levels since 1993. During my tenure as a GPA National officer, I have reviewed
and addressed numerous complaints and investigations and I know that if an
issue is correctly reported to GPA regarding someone doing the greyhounds wrong
and/or not following policy and procedures, GPA takes the issue seriously and
does all it can to rectify the situation.
The following post was made on October 28th 2017 on Facebook.
Please note that the red arrow points to the world icon which in
Facebook jargon means that the person who posted it has made it available to
the world to see and read and did not make it a post only visible to her
Facebook friends or a select group of people. She alone is the one who made a
public post with allegations and opened that post for the entire Facebook
community to see. She had no problem with her name being on such post, so I
will address her by name in this blog, as it is only fair considering she saw
nothing wrong with opening her views to the social media public. And in
fairness I will tell you that a group of people could not see Ms. Darla Dean's
Facebook post nor could they respond to Ms. Dean's post and allegations against
a national greyhound adoption group because Ms. Dean has blocked several
Greyhound Pets of America (GPA)-National officers and spouses for reasons
unknown to any of the GPA-National officers and as such the GPA-National
officers could not respond to Ms. Dean's litany of allegations and insults
regarding GPA. As of the date and time of this blog's posting Ms. Dean has
still not contacted GPA regarding her allegations, has not unblocked anyone to
allow them to respond to her Facebook post or retracted her incorrect portrayal
of the adoption standards of Greyhound Pets of America.
Blocking individuals on social media to make sure the facts are
also blocked. Could this be a trick she learned from other "humane
advocate protectors"? Was she hoping to inflict damage? Did she think the
facts would remain hidden?
Doing right by the greyhounds means that you will always speak
truthfully and report any improper behavior to the proper authorities. What
type of person uses a greyhound in a position of true need and spins it into a
diatribe of self-glory? As of the date and time of this blog, Darla Dean
has failed to contact anyone with Greyhound Pets of America – National.
I can assure all of my readers, if a GPA chapter failed this
greyhound I will do all within my powers to rectify the issue. If Darla Dean,
who is a former GPA member and who left GPA of her own free will, now feels the
need to smear each and every one of the many hard-working volunteer’s GPA
as well as members of the National Greyhound Association then SHAME ON YOU DARLA
DEAN!
Darla, you can resolve this by providing me all correspondence in
possession and timelines as to your claims that a “GPA Chapter turned its back
on this greyhound”
Darla don’t you agree that resolving the “alleged” issue directly
with GPA-National officers would have been the ethical, fair, honorable and
responsible way to handle things rather than a global post smearing the members
of GPA? If it is indeed all about the greyhounds isn't that what someone
who believes it is all about the greyhounds would have done?
I and the Greyhound Pets of America-National officers as well as
the social media world at large await the reasons for your
"allegations" against GPA and your full accounting as to EXACTLY why
you failed to contact Greyhound Pets of America yet took possession of a
returned greyhound and rehomed it and then berated GPA publicly.
UPDATE – As of the
time and date of this blog, the alleged "allegations" and incorrect
statements that were distributed against Greyhound Pets of America (GPA) via
Facebook have finally been retracted. After reading parts I&II be sure and read Part III
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