It only takes one person to try to shut down someone else's opinion. It usually doesn't work but that doesn't mean it wasn't tried. Honest disagreement is to be expected because people and their concerns are so different but I don't think Miss Nancy is doing anything more than expressing her opinion and looks like she is considering the others, investigating and giving her opinion on those.
It is good to know what info is out there and assess who is presenting it, comment pro or con and then we can each make up our minds for our own dogs. That is what a good forum is - lots of exchange of ideas and good, sometimes heated discussion of each issue. If someone disagrees strongly, I wouldn't take that as berating, just passionately responsive. And we need that here so we will get the best information. There is so much on the internet and magazines and the news about dogs, you really do have to do some homework or be pushed/pulled every which way several times in one hour of researching something. I hope we don't discourage each other posting passionately as that would be a disservice to our dogs and this very site.
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