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Is it really that bad?

Is this commercial really that bad?

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All that said, I wonder how much of an impact the offense really had to this pulling. GoDaddy has been seeming to understand the power of controversy in marketting. If they now either don't have to pay for the spot, or can out up a different ad there, then they essentially create additional advertising with less money. Now this ad is going to be seen by a lot of people essentially for free, and they gather good publicity for "doing the right thing", all on top of either not actually paying for a Super Bowl spot or being able to put up a different ad during that time to essentially double up with two "big" ads
 
tres borrachos said:
For a few reasons.

1. No reputable breeder would ever sell a puppy to anyone who hasn't been thoroughly checked out, including knowing the home and either doing a home visit or having someone else do it
2. Most puppies sold over the internet (and in pet stores) come from puppy mills

AKC is a meaningless designation. It doesn't regulate the safety and security of puppies nor the safety of the breeding stock. Any purebred can get an AKC registration.
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You realize we're talking about DOGS, right, not children? And what is wrong with breeding dogs? Dogs have been bred for thousands of years for a variety of purposes. Heck, dogs wouldn't exist at all if humans hadn't bred them from wolves.
 
tres borrachos said:
A lot of people say you shouldn't feed feral cats. I don't subscribe to that. Most feral cats don't live long lives anyway (sadly). Shelters can't take them, and unless they become part of someone's TNR (trap-neuter-release) program, yup they will reproduce. TNR cats live longer. Did you ever hear of the Boardwalk Cats in Atlantic City? They're feral, but Alley Cat Allies feeds them and they have a TNR program for them.

I say feed them.
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If you've never read anything about it, search for the feral cats of disney. Is really kind of a neat thing at one of the parks.
 
Peter Grimm said:
How about you sum it up
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All of the time you have spent writing out those posts, you could have spent reading and avoiding the eventual embarrassment of having to retract or disappear from the thread.
 
I realize this thread topic has moved on, but I hated the commercial. I didn't see a bit of funny in it. It was just... sad, and kind of sick. :(
 
As far as advertising goes it was dumb for an American commercial.

Don't **** with dogs in America. It's like a cardinal rule.

There's a reason why aliens can drop a friggin extraterrestrial nuke in New York exploding millions...but the film makers will make sure the dog can leap into an alleyway and survive. It's why someone who runs over a and kills a guy while drunk can come back into the NFL with little attention and Mike Vick is still routinely spoken about with scorn. Americans love their dogs, and the basis of the humor here is just not going to register as funny for the average American....and the commercial has little redeeming qualities as an ad without the humor factor for a large part of it's audience (since the end kills the one other possibly avenue with the awwww factor).
 
Hatuey said:
All of the time you have spent writing out those posts, you could have spent reading and avoiding the eventual embarrassment of having to retract or disappear from the thread.
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So in other words, you got nothing. No argument, no substance, nothing.

Don't bother responding.
 
Peter Grimm said:
So in other words, you got nothing
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All you have to do is look in the first 6 pages of this thread to see how silly this entire exchange has been because you refuse to read. Here, I'll make it easy for you. Read posts #12 and posts #47. Can you do that? :)
 
eohrnberger said:
I agree. All this excessive political correctness is turning the nation into a bunch of thin skinned wimps.
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What we need is more government intervention against things that might happen based on a fictional representation in an ad.

An entire bureaucracy needs to be established this instant to monitor all advertising, especially anything that might be seen by children or drunken fools watching a football game. Who knows what horrible things might come out of an inadvertent lapse.

No wonder Atavan is so popular. Can't watch cute puppies without fretting about the social consequences.

I wonder if any puppies are dying in Syria?
 
All this time I thought Godaddy was a sugar daddy hook up site!
 
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SmokeAndMirrors said:
It just strikes me as a really bad ad, personally. It would probably leave most viewers feeling suddenly saddened by the shallow turn it takes at the end. Those of us who have dealt with rescue animals, as you've already seen, might be downright angered. I don't really see how anyone would come away from it feeling anything positive. Whoever came up with that should be put in the dunce cap for a while down at GoDaddy HQ.

Offensive? No. Terrible advertising? Yes.
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Now we have truth!

For the life of me, never having heard of this company before, I have not one idea what they are selling me...the message I get is that if you sell **** with them, it doesn't stay sold.

And why not Craig's List? They don't victimize puppies
 


I reckon they pulled it because Budweiser did a really really similar one but with a happy ending.
 
Goshin said:
Indifferent.
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I watched the commercial, the poor puppy cute as can be falls out of the truck and finds its way back to the only home it knew only to be shipped out to a new owner. From the dog's perspective it sucked. From the breeder that makes money off the sale of puppies it was reality.

Personally I'm glad they pulled it. But they paid mega bucks for a commercial during the Super Bowl. Curious to what it will look like.
 
Hatuey said:
All you have to do is look in the first 6 pages of this thread to see how silly this entire exchange has been because you refuse to read. Here, I'll make it easy for you. Read posts #12 and posts #47. Can you do that? :)
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Good lord. I didn't want to read the entire 6 page thread because I thought it would be a waste of my time, and, having now read your two earlier posts (#12 and #47), I see that I was totally right. I did waste my time.

Your entire argument, which you think sums up this entire thread, is that the current state of dog-breeding is inhumane because dogs are bred just for their looks.

I got news for you, buddy. If YOU don't want to buy a dog for its looks or disposition or whatever other reason people buy purebreds, that's YOUR PERSONAL DECISION. Have fun with that. However, if I or anyone else wants to buy a dog for whatever reason I want, including the way it looks, that's my right as an American.

Like I said from the beginning, there is NOTHING wrong with dog breeding, horse breeding, or any other kind of animal breeding. If you think there is, that's nothing but bleeding heart foolishness, and you might as well become a vegetarian because, you know, EVERY meat-producing land animal that we commonly eat in America has been BRED in to its current state.
 
Hatuey said:
All you have to do is look in the first 6 pages of this thread to see how silly this entire exchange has been because you refuse to read. Here, I'll make it easy for you. Read posts #12 and posts #47. Can you do that? :)
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I did....and he's right.

You are taking this way too seriously...and that's what's silly.

It a ****ing TV ad! Not a ban on guns FFS
 
Zyphlin said:
As far as advertising goes it was dumb for an American commercial.

Don't **** with dogs in America. It's like a cardinal rule.

There's a reason why aliens can drop a friggin extraterrestrial nuke in New York exploding millions...but the film makers will make sure the dog can leap into an alleyway and survive. It's why someone who runs over a and kills a guy while drunk can come back into the NFL with little attention and Mike Vick is still routinely spoken about with scorn. Americans love their dogs, and the basis of the humor here is just not going to register as funny for the average American....and the commercial has little redeeming qualities as an ad without the humor factor for a large part of it's audience (since the end kills the one other possibly avenue with the awwww factor).
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Or ever expose a nipple....

That might distract the president while he's getting head
 
Fearandloathing said:
I did....
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No you didn't. Hell, if you did, post the question that was asked and the response that was given. Take a picture of post 47 and tell me how right you are. C'man. :)
 
Fearandloathing said:
Now we have truth!

For the life of me, never having heard of this company before, I have not one idea what they are selling me...the message I get is that if you sell **** with them, it doesn't stay sold.

And why not Craig's List? They don't victimize puppies
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Actually it's a web domain purchasing site. I have no idea how this ad connects to their product -- yet another reason it's a terrible ad.
 
SmokeAndMirrors said:
Actually it's a web domain purchasing site. I have no idea how this ad connects to their product -- yet another reason it's a terrible ad.
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Well, Godaddy implies that by having a domain name, like smokeandmirrors.com, you can sell yourself, or basically anything you wanna' do. I believe they have an option to turn your domain into an auction or selling location on the internet, if you want to.
 
AJiveMan said:
Well, Godaddy implies that by having a domain name, like smokeandmirrors.com, you can sell yourself, or basically anything you wanna' do. I believe they have an option to turn your domain into an auction or selling location on the internet, if you want to.
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Yeah, and I sort of get it having already known what GoDaddy is. But as you can see, it doesn't translate well to someone who doesn't already know.
 
SmokeAndMirrors said:
Yeah, and I sort of get it having already known what GoDaddy is. But as you can see, it doesn't translate well to someone who doesn't already know.
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True. They should maybe have stayed with Danika Patrick racing or something. People do get sensitive about their pets. Godaddy probably never saw this torpedo coming.

This one is heartwarming though.

 
AJiveMan said:
True. They should maybe have stayed with Danika Patrick racing or something. People do get sensitive about their pets. Godaddy probably never saw this torpedo coming.

This one is heartwarming though.

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Now that's how you do a puppy ad! *sniffle*
 
Hatuey said:
I have to admit, I've never heard of a blue basset hound... I tried looking it up but the most I could find was this:

Basset Bleu de Gascogne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I don't think that's what you're talking about but I think I have a rough idea of what they might look like. If you ever want to look at destruction of a dog breed, look out what breeders did to the German Shepherds. The last time human beings deformed a living being in such a manner, the year had BC written next to it.
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No, that's a specific breed. This is a "blue Basset Hound":

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polgara said:
I belong to Tri-State Collie Rescue, but they've usually been given the dogs by someone who just couldn't take care of them anymore, so they stay with people like me until a new home can be found for them, which is never more than a month. They're well behaved since they've never been mistreated, so no problem there. The last one I had went to a farmer in another State - we never are told where they go - but they're just as strict about checking new homes as an child adoption agency is about their rules, and they do follow up calls, just in case it's not a good match, since some are young, and need training. They are spayed or neutered if needed before they go to a new home, too. It was a shame that they had to do that with the last one I had, since he was a rare tri-color registered with the AKC, but those are their rules. :sigh:
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Hi Pol, in order to keep your 501(c)3 non-profit designation, as a rescue you have to spay or neuter your dogs before they're adopted.

Most rescues are like the reputable breeders - they won't place a dog with a home without a home visit, vet checks, references, and very thorough interview.
 
radcen said:
It's clear that some here are so emotionally involved as to be blinded by the variety of scenarios... positive as well as negative... in the world around them. Because there most certainly are breeders who abuse dogs purely for profit, hence all breeders are tagged with the negative buzzword "puppy mill", hence no rational discussion is possible.
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Huh? All breeders are not tagged with the negative buzzword "puppy mill". And nobody ever said that.
 
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