Bruce
Herd Master
Um, does that employee still have a job? Hope the question made the vet think hard about his/her "intact = cancer" belief.
Spay/neuter
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Um, does that employee still have a job? Hope the question made the vet think hard about his/her "intact = cancer" belief.
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Southern by choice
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Yep.
Years ago when I had a business in a vet clinic (separate) I challenged the vet on several things as well. The difference was this vet wasn't threatened and listened... after that for specific issues I would be called in to consult with... some dogs were referred out to a specialist and the clients loved the vet for it. The vet had not heard of the specialist... this was back in the day when specialist of any kind were rare. It was a great situation and helped the animals over health and life.
Behavioral issues and training went to me. We had a great relationship and mutual respect. I think the difference is when you have a vet that isn't arrogant and doesn't think they know everything. You would be surprised at how little time if any is given in vet school for certain things... yet people don't know this ans vets end up giving advice on stuff they know nothing about. Most often the advice is from limited experience in the vet office setting.
NH homesteader
Herd Master
I believe it. I've tried many pet vets. Exactly one of them knew how act around my dogs. One of which is over excitable and the other is leery of strangers. I was told by two vets that I needed to muzzle my dog so he wouldn't bite ME while I held him still for his shots. One vet and one tech were smart enough to come in the room, hold their hand out for him to smell and ignore him while he did so. The rest would just come in and grab him and wonder why he seemed uncomfortable... BTW he was fine with those two. Unfortunately they've both moved elsewhere.. Grr.
Green Acres Farm
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He seemed pretty clear that that was the case...
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Green Acres Farm
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The vet I was talking about recently retired.Sounds like the moron that tried to say my 19 week old pup had pyo.
Pyo?
Our (different) livestock vet tech wants me to deworm my goats with Cydectin every 4-6 weeks. I said, "Won't that lead to parasite resistance?" And she said she's been doing this for 30 years.
misfitmorgan
Herd Master
Then they should know how bad that schedule is for parasite resistance. They just had a conference on it for pig farmers up here back in August where MSU was trying to get the old timey pig farmers to understand that some of their practices were hurting more then helping their pigs. Most larger scale pig farmers up here have a strict schedule of worming with ivermectin every 12 weeks. It's pretty much no longer effective.
We also have a lot of farmers who use ivermectin for heartwormer in their livestock dogs...which is fine at the right dose but they use the same dosing as they do for their other livestock. So 1cc per 100lbs or 0.5cc per 100lbs or whatever it is per their main critters which is way way more then a dog needs for heartworm "prevention" let alone heartworm treatment. We treat our dogs with ivermectin for heartworm on July 1st and again on October 1 and thats it, the dose we use for our little dogs is 1 drop and for our big dogs we use 0.3cc and that is of 0.08% sheep drench ivermectin not the full strength stuff.
