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From harsh treatment of pets to a flood of solicitations, readers share their list of gripes Date published: 3/9/2010 By Rob Hedelt FROM bad treat- Lou Cubbage of Culpeper County can't stand the way some dogs, like one in her neighborhood, live life She said the one near her slept on top of the snow for weeks this winter, when something as simple as a piece of carpet would have saved him from that. "The saddest thing is when someone comes to the house," she said. "The dog just stands at the end of his chain and wags his tail. I have never seen anyone speak to him, pat him or acknowledge him in any way. It breaks my heart." Cindi Harry of King George County said her gripe is people who buy puppies from pet stores. "With all the education about puppy mills and the misery that is bred there, why, oh why, would anyone even enter a pet store?" she asked. Carolyn Williams of King George is tired of going to the drive-through at a leading fast food chain in hopes of getting appealing, hot french fries. Only to get "limp, greasy, semi-warm fries," she said. Complaints have brought apologies, but the problem persists. "It's like throwing dice on whether you'll get hot fries," she said. Twila Ahlers of Spotsylvania County has had it with all the mail she gets, the lion's share of it solicitations from nonprofit groups asking for cash. It was such a problem, she decided to keep track of what she got for an entire year. "During 2009, I received 2,558 pieces of mail," she said. "More than half was solicitations. "The most I received in one day was 34. I had to tear it up to get it out of the mail box. It's nothing to get anywhere from eight to 24 pieces in a day, many repeat requests." She's written the Direct Marketing Association to ask for help with the problem, but it persists.
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