More vet bashing..

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Doolally — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:58:42 GMT

'For when he was just seven, Jaggers was diagnosed with kidney disease. The same vet prescribed some more dried food, especially designed for cats with urinary problem'

Why a urinary diet when the cat had renal disease?

The whole article's a load of rubbish and not worth getting annoyed about really...as has been said people always want something or someone to blame, if its not the food that killed the dog it'll be the shampoo or the water or something, not genetics or anything like that.

How many people who feed raw/unprocessed food to theirs pets don't eat processed food themselves?

I'm not against BARF at all and i know people who feed their dogs very successfully on it, but its not for me, and i'm perfectly happy with the processed commerical food i feed my pets, i only by the best quality, and stick two fingers up to anyone who says i should do otherwise

Re: More vet bashing..

Kim Buckley — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:44:26 GMT

Bunch of morons! People will blame anything! How about animals do get ill?? Or stop buying animals from backyard breeders/puppy farms who's genetics are mucked up from the very beginning?

Re: More vet bashing..

Sarah Nicholas — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:43:47 GMT

I actually can't believe that! did you see people's comments as well ...OMG!

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Claire Cameron — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:32:36 GMT

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[quote user="Claire BearRVN"] I'm off to get my pen of rage

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"You sir, are a braggard and a nincompoop!" Fly Augustus!

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Re: More vet bashing..

Ruaraidh _ — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:39:37 GMT

[quote user="Claire BearRVN"] I'm off to get my pen of rage

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"You sir, are a braggard and a nincompoop!" Fly Augustus!

I read the first few paragraphs then skim read. Not out of anger but dismay, how can people write this stuff? Every animal is different, different circumstances etc. Yet the brand everyone with the same brush.

Ach well, probably field a few questions in practice at some point...the joys. I hope people are more intelligent than this paper(is it really a paper?) thinks.

Re: More vet bashing..

Vicky RVN — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:32:29 GMT

I'm not going to read the article! Will just annoy me too much!

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Kerry Spain — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:03:28 GMT

yes true, I've had a few beers and a curry now and can't be arsed

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Caro Laithwaite VN — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:16:23 GMT

Thats why l avoid them

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Sal the 1st — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:40:24 GMT

This article has produced some very strong feelings (which is exactly why it was written). For the sake of your blood pressure I would advise anybody thinking of making a reply to leave well alone. The more comments they get the worse this little group becomes - dont add fuel to the fire, and dont risk being misquoted else where

Re: More vet bashing..

Claire Cameron — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:19:00 GMT

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I may have to unleash the beast later on that website... sooooooo sick to death of hearing 'I've owned pet all my life, I know how to look after them'

SO WHAT, I've owned a car for the last 10 years... DOESN'T MAKE ME A MECHANIC DOES IT!!

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My sentiments entirely!

"I've groomed dogs for years, I know what I'm talking about"

Sorry I wasn't aware that owning or working with dogs qualified you in veterinary medicine.

I'm off to get my pen of rage

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Kerry Spain — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:13:13 GMT

*SIGH*

I may have to unleash the beast later on that website... sooooooo sick to death of hearing 'I've owned pet all my life, I know how to look after them'

SO WHAT, I've owned a car for the last 10 years... DOESN'T MAKE ME A MECHANIC DOES IT!!

Bless the retarded pet owning population... to be continued...

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hissycat — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:54:46 GMT

At the expense of our pets and all the hard working honest vets and veterinary staff out there

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Sal the 1st — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:19:10 GMT

Fiona Macmillan - say no more. Along with some of her liitle buddies responsible for the closure of the pets MRSA forum - huge service to pets and their owners there (not). Also responsible for a whole lot of comments following the Marc Abraham article - most of them not actually relevant to the article. Richard Allport vet, somebody else who monopolised the pets MRSA forum. Roger Meacock the vet have a couple of internet links with him and Matthew Watkinson mentioned together. As I say Daily Mail out to sell copies more than anything else - and todays news is tomorrows kennel liner - there to be crapped and peed on. Everbody is entitled to their own opinion but sadly its seems its only the ones that sell the papers that get a hearing. I can respect that different people have different opinions - I have no respect for people who cannot accept that their belief system isnt the only one that exists and they feel the need to ram it down everybody elses throats. I am sure this will be quoted (or more likely misquoted selectively on other sites) as this seems to be common within this little group.

Must have been a slow day for news at Daily Mail towers and they needed to make sales based on sensationalism

Re: More vet bashing..

les punton — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:59:55 GMT

though I think this article is one sided, I think people make up thier own mind and when it goes wrong, want to blame someone else!

People dont think that veterinary medicine has advanced greatly over the years and many animals years ago left untreated and undiagnosed died young. However as times are changing people are looking at animals differently and expecting more from thier animals and vets, thus when it doesnt go right they blame.

These types of articles annoy me

maybe one day there will be a good one

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Shelly vn — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:45:56 GMT

I've avoided reading most of the anti vet articles, but i just read this one and its made me so angry! How many owners that will switch to a natural diet are going to take advice and make sure its balanced. I can just imagine how many owners are gong to start refusing to feed renal diet to a cat in kidney failure because of this article!

Re: More vet bashing..

Sally Seddon — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:33:24 GMT

cant even bring myself to read another article about vets, i dwell on it for days