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Originally Posted by livingdustmops  This is my problem .... are you willing to accept you could be killing her dog with your advise? It is wonderful you did your homework and research but how do you know this person will. In one post you said if the BATS were over 100 you would test and then the very next post after she said they were 105 you wouldn't. You said you would try to control with eating for 6 months and someone else says 30 days. This is all very confusing.
Many people will take the advise that costs the least (I am not saying that is what is happening here) but I wish you would say this is just your opinion and you are not a vet. I do think you have a lot of experience with your dog but you immediately jumped onto her thread saying to controlling it with food before you even knew what the BAT scores were.
You could be 100% correct (I am not saying you are) but to much information is missing from the OP to make this determination so fast IMHO. |
i also feel very strongly about NOT doing liver biopsies in dogs to determine MVD why put the dog through a large incision just to say YEP it is MVD when the blood work already tells you this yet i see so many dogs on here getting this done for what to say yes this is it and if you do not biopsy the exact part of the liver that has it then it will go undiagnosed anyway. If the bats are over 25 and under 100 then it is mvd you do not need to cut a huge incision in a dog and biopsy there liver to tell you this and there can be complications from this as well. Yet a specialist will pressure people into this and you will not treat that dog any differently than if they did not have the biopsy for mvd so this is horrible in my opinion for the dog
