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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  Yes, Ann, that was the thread I looked at and one kind of shuts down when seeing it. I wanted to see something in bold fonts for frightened owners that listed what to do and what not to do and a number to call and then a little more detail and links for more reading for information. I love that it said to take the any possible ingested substance with you to the vet! A panicked owner might not even think of that. But there just didn't seem to be a single website that had all of that on one page but I'll admit due to my computer and eyes, I only looked at 4 sites. One had to click around quite a bit on each site to get all the info you really need, so I copied and pasted and really didn't even make a good sentence at the start of the page as trying to get that hyperlink in with the formatting I'd copied was giving me huge problems(it just wouldn't copy from the Google search page - only link me to it - and after fighting with it for so long, it finally copied as a hyperlink that wasn't 1/2 an inch tall and I was so grateful I'd gotten that part done, I didn't even properly edit that first sentence. But you can reword and rework it however you want to in order to make it correct grammatically and more user-friendly for the panicked dog owner who can't get the vet on the phone and doesn't yet know how to get to the ER Vet Clinic.
I do like all of that information on that "Important Links for Pet Poisoning & Dangerous Foods" thread. It is all good and vital info - just probably needs a bit of modernizing, streamlining, artful editing, etc. To me, I would probably prefer to see more information listed by subject matter on more Stickies than one long thread that seems to go on forever. If I want to see poisonous plants listed, I'd rather click on a separate sticky entitled "Poisonous Plants" containing that info rather than have to skip-read through yards of paragraphs on poisons to find it. But that is just me. Others probably would like to read through and skip to get their info in one place.
I'm hoping our Library here will serve as a first resort and often-used resource, easy to access and often read for ready help after any necessary vet consultation. It is so good to have all of that vital information on one website! |
That part in red above? That is *exactly* what I mean about the pertinent sticky, and some others too. You just shut down, can't absorb anything, tune out.
I also hear you on the long, exhaustive stickies -- for some sticky/Library threads, it works and it's fine. But for ER type subjects - I really like them to be even more streamlined where you can instantly find just what you need to.
I think what I'll do is - once it's shortened and re-ordered (your post first), I'm going to remove the exhaustive list-type-stuff and instead provide a nice big/bold LINK to the lists of plants and meds etctera - these links would be on their own in the ER Library...rather than as part of the thread. I'll see how that looks.