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06-24-2010, 09:38 AM | #31 |
T. Bumpkins & Co. Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: New England
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| There are still some great vets!! I have a great vet. She's a wonderful person, caring, compassionate, and very very smart. Do I trust my dogs' lives in her hands? The answer to that, (and this is a lawyer talking (LOL), is: "it depends." It depends on the facts of each situation. It also depends on how I feel about it as my dogs' owner, their guardian, the one who has the best intuition or plain old gut feeling about what should happen next. I've had mediocre vets who disappointed me and vets that I called ignorant right to their faces. But that is part and parcel of every profession. That is when we, the owners, use our collective resources and stand up for animals! -- These resources can be anything that we as individuals (again as the guardians and therefore the ones who know our animals best) feel should be part of our analysis and decision-making. That analysis and decision-making and the road we choose to follow is different for every single person and every single set of facts. There is only one certainty here - and that is that there are NO TWO EXACT situations. There is no ONE RIGHT ANSWER. What I choose for my dogs is extreme and I openly admit it. I am willing to cook three different diets for three different dogs and spend my weekends roasting chickens because that is a decision that I alone made. I also choose to bring my sick dogs to a specialist hospital if I think they are sick because I believe the care to be better from the acute standpoint. I think they are more experienced. This is extreme, because most people start with their general vet. Either road is A-OK because each of us is an individual. So the message of my post is to say that is not a crime or a sin to trust your vet. Trust your heart, and make that the first order of business.
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06-24-2010, 09:40 AM | #32 | |
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06-24-2010, 09:44 AM | #33 |
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| Do a search on here for say GME and see all those people helping out and guess what NONE OF THEM are helping anymore and that is SAD. They are so beaten down they do not even bother going to the sick and injured anymore to help people with what they know. I was shocked as i was going to do a link to library on GME and i searched on here for all the threads on it and was shocked whose dogs had it as they NEVER post to help people - WHY? Did they get tired of getting beat up so they figured not worth the aggravation anymore because they do not write it perfectly as to not ruffle some peoples feathers? |
06-24-2010, 09:54 AM | #34 | |
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I do like coming on here for medical opinions though I do trust my vets though! If anyone needs a phenomenal vet in Maryland, Dr. Klickman is SUPER. | |
06-24-2010, 10:01 AM | #35 | |
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If it's a little allergy or something, sure, definitely ask the vet. But if a vet says give 4ml to a 4 pound dog (saw it recently), then I'd have to question whether there was a misunderstanding or something...
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06-24-2010, 10:06 AM | #36 | |
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But this is what i am talking about some say it is ok and some say not ok - you cannot have it both ways - if it is wrong to help people with sick dogs it is wrong all they way around so people need to stop being hypocrites and do what you are comfortable with Last edited by dwerten; 06-24-2010 at 10:11 AM. | |
06-24-2010, 10:22 AM | #37 | |
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As I said, if people aren't comfortable dosing, then by all means, don't. I'm not normally comfortable with it either. But I have seen a lot of people come here and say they have no vet to call. And they can call an ER hospital in their state, but some don't seem to want to do that. And not all ER vets will give it over the phone. Once Ellie had a little sore on her ear and we called to ask if we could use Neosporin. The tech wouldn't answer and said they would need to see it. lol. Um, I'm not paying $85 for you to look at a little bleeding dot. So if they can't get ahold of somebody or are concerned, then I have no problem helping. It's the same thing I would do for family. I will not tell them what doses to give. I will tell them if it looks wrong and I would tell them how much benadryl to use in an emergency.
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06-24-2010, 10:26 AM | #38 |
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| I think we need to stop criticizing and realize people are taking their time to help people here and focus on the positive not the negative.[/QUOTE] I agree. I have never seen the forum this divided and the # of long time members gone is incredible. If you don't want to help and all you want to do is nit pick then get out of the way so those that do help can
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06-24-2010, 10:28 AM | #39 | |
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06-24-2010, 10:29 AM | #40 |
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| lol, I have no idea. Somebody else said something about it first.
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06-24-2010, 10:29 AM | #41 |
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06-24-2010, 10:33 AM | #42 |
T. Bumpkins & Co. Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: New England
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| I can't figure that out - it's the calculator vs. the pharmacist calculating dose argument. I'm just wondering why we should trust the pharmacist when we should not trust our vets!
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06-24-2010, 10:33 AM | #43 |
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| If anyone in this thread is feeling offended, re-read my original post. The title says "Not All Vets are Wrong" and it is merely my opinion, which is by no means hypocritical of anyone in this thread. If anyone is offended this posting, then you should probably look at your own habits and why you are offended. I was simply saying that "not all vets are bad" and we should heed the advice of people in a forum with open ears, but not always with complete certainty.
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06-24-2010, 10:35 AM | #44 | |
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