Hey everyone. You may have noticed that Nikki & I have been having some troubles with another twitter user recently. Not sure if you know who (it’s not hard to find out if you really care) but I’m not going to mention her name on here. The point of this post is to defend our intentions both with this site and with our twitter accounts @RescueAnimals & @LastChancePets. It started several weeks ago when I started seeing people tweeting about animals on urgent lists & realizing how it could really make a difference in getting them rescued. I began by passing on the info on @RescueAnimals but I was worried that those tweets would get lost amongst all the others I pass on so I came up with the idea to create @LastChancePets which would focus solely on posting urgent lists from shelters. I found my information from several sources but there was someone that I tweeted more often. Sometimes I did the typical RT @username format but as I got into it more I found that there was a format that I thought worked best for the animals. I always like my urgent list tweets to read like this: “Location – Animals Needing Rescue by This Date – link – More Info If Room – via @username” This is how I retweeted this person & everyone else’s. There were no problems for awhile. I even got a #followfriday from this person twice. Then on June 20th I tried to ask this user a question about a dog in California because there had been no contact information in her post and Nikki & I really wanted to know what had happened to her. That’s when I found out that this user had blocked @LastChancePets. I asked her why & got a snippy response about stealing her tweets & changing them. I tried to explain to her that I give her credit at the end of the tweets & that due to the constraints of 140 chars I had to reword some parts but she never responded to me.

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