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Originally Posted by MyFairLacy  Pulling blood is invasive and cruel? Are you kidding me??? I have seen blood drawn on plenty of animals and have drawn blood myself. If you have someone that knows what they are doing, it's very quick and relatively painless. My gosh...more excuses  |
Okay, time out! That does not sound fair to me. Amazing yorkies is sharing her experience in this procedure. You are not a breeder, you have not had blood drawn from a puppy for this from her vet. You can't judge her and say more excuses when she is sharing her experience and her conclusions from it. As someone who has reservations about this test because of things that I have read ( and I don't believe that only one vet is perfectly correct in this) I am glad to hear other sides of this story and first hand experiences. I'm not even sure my vet would be willing to do a BAT if a blood panel result did not indicate that it was necessary, especially on a puppy. We are just hear discussing the different options and learning what we can about this threat to our breed and other small breeds. The experts can't even agree with the best way to head this threat off yet and I know that I have plenty of questions yet to be answered. So I will do the blood panel on my adults, talk to my vet about other options and continue to do the research. I'd like to know more about the possible link between feeding very high protein foods and the incidences of liver problems. Because it is a problem across the board with small breeds it makes me wonder if we are bringing some of it on ourselves. According to my research the BAT is not the end all answer at this point and other opinions are not excuses, they are valid opinions just like yours.