I stated throughout the thread that the doggy was seeing a vet and I don’t think any of the help in the thread constituted as “medical”. And I would never be after medical opinion without the help of a vets, if that’s how it appeared it’s certainly not what I meant.
So yeah, just wanted to clear that up really. thanks!
I closed the thread because there seemed to be conflicting advice. I know you said you were seeing a vet, acorns, but in the interest of not perpetuating possible misinformation, I thought it best to close the discussion.
I can certainly re-open it if I’m convinced there’s a compelling reason. But right now it appears there can really be no clear answers from anyone besides the person treating your pet.
Discussion is bad, and should be avoided. As should any follow-up questions, reports or updates from Acorns. Christ, did **BigT **win a Moderator-For-The-Day prize?
Medical threads about animals are closed now? Or is that threads where there is disagreement and discussion about said disagreement are no longer allowed in a forum dedicated to people giving their opinions? This is just loony.
I just went through that thread, and it was full of conflicting advice. Eat this-no, that’s bad! Eat this instead-no, hold back on the food…all advice from anonymous people on the net that never even examined the poor animal.
but I also think you need to respect the OP’s (I say* the *OP’s because it can be a general matter not just concerning myself) intelligence when it comes to these matters, I would never do anything without vet’s clearance and when it comes to food issues, it’s always good to compare notes on how others have fed their pets during this illness.
Also, nobody can really second guess how those reading any thread to do with any subject would regard information contained within, it would be impossible to second guess every thread someone makes in case someone who is reading it decides to take the words to heart and only go by what is written there.
I think it would be bigheaded to say other posters would want to hear about my dog but I’ve already recieved one kind PM and am kind of sure others are interested…or not, I don’t know. Members here have been very helpful and supportive regarding their replies
I just don’t see any medical advice being given in the thread and if there were I wouldn’t act without proper information from a professional first.
Part of your dog’s medical condition is that it isn’t eating properly. The vet, who has the full story on your dog’s condition, should be the one to determine what would be best for your dog food-wise. I believe this would be the medical advice that Ellen Cherry is referring to.
the vet is of course giving advice on what my dog should eat, when I started the thread I wanted people’s opinions on how they dealt with the illness and how they got their dog to eat. When something was suggested, the vet is only a phone call away to query advice.
I’ve treated several animals that had pancreatitis over the years and the treatment has never been anything like what **acorns **vet recommended. The folks who suggested a different vet or a different treatment protocol were spot on in my opinion. One of them being an actual vet, by the way.
You and Ellen Cherry both cited conflicting advice as the reason for the thread closure. If conflicting advice is disallowed, then consensus must be the standard.
I understand that. But he said that no one was pushing the point I was arguing against, when **Ellen **stated it quite clearly and he agreed with her. So that makes two, by my count, rather than none.
I think Czar was saying no one was stating that your far-reaching conclusion was the rule. While I don’t think being fairly insistent on the slippery slope/extreme condition is necessarily wrong, it’s not exactly descriptive of what was happening in this particular thread.
My take on it was that differences of opinion about whether a movie was good or not, or the quality of a particular pet food are relatively innocuous. Even differences about general feeding and watering are relatively harmless. But differences of opinion about the care and treatment of a serious illness, one that crosses into medical advice (albeit of the doggy kind), take on a higher level of mod scrutiny.
In this case, Ellen seems to recognize the gray area and reconsider the matter. I don’t think insisting that the broader ramifications of the ruling mean no more sharing or debating opinions is necessarily a persuasive argument in this direction.
Again, this is just my interpretation of things. I understand your wider point and am not trying to marginalize it–I just think there may be two different types of discussions going on in this thread.
Oh, and good luck with the pooch–if anything I hope there is a re-opening or a new thread with updates.
The reason for the prohibition on medical threads is legal. It’s to keep the board out of trouble in a malpractice suit. This does not apply to veterinarians, and thus this closure is improper.
We have threads that give out conflicting advice all the time. Some are quite dangerous. But when people complain about this, the above paragraph is always the rationale given. It would be logically inconsistent to change the argument to whether or not the thread is conflicting.
thanks!
