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Originally Posted by Mardelin  Again, I will state, you do not know the expertise of my husband's Caridioligist, so you can't make a blanket statment such as you did.
Offering advice is one thing; and as stated before there is a thin line between offering advice and recommending over a vet's treatment. Especially when you aren't with the owner of the dog in the examination room and have first hand knowledge of tests that have been performed on the dog.
You are right I have not been able to find a good vet, by my standards. But, my needs for a vet are different than yours. My dogs do not require continous vet care as non are have chronic illnesses. What my dissatisfaction is with California vets is they place $$$$ over the treatment of the dog, leading to unnecessary testing and medications. And no this does not hinder me from taking my dogs in should they require medical treatment.
If you feel I'm being nasty, so be it, but my intention is to caution you when providing information and not present it in a manner that is recommending over a vet's. |
right so imagine spending the MONEY and having dogs that are chronically ill and dealing with all that not very fun and those of us with chronically ill dogs have alot of experience and knowledge first hand with this stuff so by you stating you do not have these issues with your dogs you should have more sympathy for those of us that do as one day you may not have such healthy dogs and need help. I would much rather get advice from someone that has first hand experience of an illness than someone who does not and keeps telling me go to the vet. Many times i have seen people be nasty to people with sick dogs and then they end up with a sick dog in tears sorry they were ever nasty spending thousands they swore they would never spend because it has now happened to them - karma is a powerful thing so I believe in helping as much as i can with what i have experienced. Do I sit and critique every post no and i am not about to and be paranoid about helping someone with a sick dog. I will state what i know and my experience and they can make up their mind on what is best all bodies are different both human and dogs what works for one may not work for another one but we can all try to be compassionate, caring, share our experiences good, bad or indifferent.
You will never see me helping someone with a delivery of puppies or anything to do with pregnancy as i have no clue and won't even go there so we all have our own experiences to share and we should be thankful we have a place to share with others and help our dogs and respect one another.