My point which you seem to be missing is that vets are not the end all be all that people think they are. They are good to have however just b/c my vet tells my one thing I still may go looking to get anouther vets oppion depending on the problem. I may also ask other dog owners who I know if they have heard of anyone having the same problem.
Also when it comes down to it horses dogs and just about every other animal have many things incomon. What applies to one in gerneral will apply to others. However unless you have sent many many years dealing with many other types of animals you may not see this. There may be technical differnces however the theroies are the same.
If you look at the conformation of a horse and a dog they are very close. They work the same way there are many many simularities on form to function. Again if you have not studied horse conformation and their form to function and that of most breed of dogs you would not see that either.
As for putting a saddle on one of my dogs. If they could slide 35 feet then I just may do it. However, they are not built to do that as some horse are not built to do that either. Again form to function.
Heidi
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Originally Posted by Snowshoe  Heidi,
You seem like you are quite experienced with animals. However, (and maybe you don't read the dog health forum often) the posters who utilize that forum are in my opinion, ignorant. Please don't read that as "stupid." Ignorant connotates a lack of education, rather then a lack of intelligence.
Coming on to a general dog forum to ask for medical advice often also illustrates a certain lack of common sense, especially when some of the questions could potentially turn out very badly for the poor dogs involved.
The key is that anyone here can give advice; however, probably none but 2 that I can think of have any experience in dog medical care.
This forum does not have a strong base of experienced breeders who are responsible.
Perhaps YOU would be able to differentiate between good breeding advice and bad. And, if you can, I think that's really awesome.
My point, however, is that most people who come on here asking for advice won't be able to make that distinction. |
I agree that most people who breed are ingorant. Heck I have been breeding ofr over a decade and I still take coninuing education course in that area. I have found that forums while not the best place to get advice I do still learn things. Sometimes it is what not to do as someone may post and say "Hay I have this problem and I talked to my vet and he/she says this or that what do you all think has this happened to anyone here. Most of the time someone here or on a forum will say yep I have had a simular problem is this is what happened and what I did and what caused it. Now non of that would be medical advice nor these 2 things may end up being differnt. However, by just reading that may get someone ealse thinking or if it happends to them they will have an idea where to start.
Is this the best place to get advice. Maybe maybe not. However I bet everyone here has had something happen to one of their dogs that someone ealse has never heard of and what was done about it.
I can give many examples of things that I have heard storries of and how it was handled then have it happen to me at some point. Heck one of those storries saved my life and the lives of 12 other poeple one time. Was the storry told by a pro at that insident? Nop it was told by a person who has lived it.
Sometimes it is just storries that can be told that can educate people on things you would not even have thought about.
Heidi
