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Post by Dave on Nov 18, 2014 15:43:32 GMT -5
I had an interesting discussion with a young co-worker today. I've been trying to get the boss to allow Friday's to be Dog Days. Since a coworker had brought her Am. Bulldog to work several times, I'd like to keep it going when she leaves for Georgia this week. I told her that I think the boss is pit bull phobic. She said she is, too. I asked why, she said that one attacked her sister and bit her arm badly. That pit bulls have locking jaws. No matter what I said I could not make her disbelieve the myth. Especially when she said the vet that treated the dog after the attack (it was beaten badly by witnesses to the attack) that they DO HAVE locking jaws. WTF? A vet believing the myths? Really shakes my trust in the veterinary medicine educational system. BTW, it's this same young lady who spent loads of time with Sedona the last time she was here.  |
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Post by suziriot on Nov 18, 2014 19:56:13 GMT -5
Interesting. Some people are just always going to have a disconnect between what they "feel" to be true and what is presented to them as fact. She probably feels that Sedona is just an exception, but that all other pit bulls must be dangerous because of what happened to her sister. Fear is not rational. Fear does not always disappear in the face of facts.
And yeah, there are a lot of incredibly ignorant vets AND people doctors too, for that matter.
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Post by maryellen on Nov 19, 2014 9:10:35 GMT -5
Idiots. Dont they know skeleton keys can unlock jaws???
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Post by RealPitBull on Nov 19, 2014 10:43:18 GMT -5
She's Pit Bull phobic but has an American Bulldog and was loving on Sedona? Jeez talk about a disconnect!!! It is very difficult to convince people they are wrong, even when facts are presented to them - what they feel is what they believe, period. It's sad but unless a person is really out to seek the truth and educate themselves, randomly educating (or trying to) people just doesn't work. IME, anyway.
Ugh vets....they know next to nothing about a) diet and b) behavior unless they specialize/educate themselves. It's sad that people think they can go to vets for these things when in most cases they will get bad information.
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Post by Dave on Nov 19, 2014 11:24:50 GMT -5
I'm so lucky that my vet is A) Pit Bull savvy B) open-minded C) my friend. We can talk about anything dog related and she never speaks down to me, and had even listened to me when I first started feeding raw because she then educated herself and even advocates it now. That's why I'm so surprised when I hear a vet spew misinformation like that. What else are they telling people? I just have to remember that vets are people, too.
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Post by michele5611 on Nov 19, 2014 13:04:51 GMT -5
Yes and all vets are not created equal!  |
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Post by Dave on Nov 19, 2014 15:06:07 GMT -5
Yes and all vets are not created equal! Ain't that the truth! |
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Post by emilys on Nov 19, 2014 15:41:55 GMT -5
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Post by fawncoat on Dec 5, 2014 15:28:40 GMT -5
That is interesting about your co-worker. Are you going to go forward with the request for Fridays? Maybe you can slowly educate?
What caught my attention in this thread (off topic, I know) is your vet and raw feeding. I'm not currently feeding raw but, it is my preference. When my girl was a pup and going through vac's, I was feeding raw and mentioned it to the vet. WOW! She nearly exploded. Went on and on practically yelling at me that dog food companies have done decades of research that their foods are based on. I asked her who told her that and her reply was the dog food reps (or companies). I kept waiting for her to get the joke.
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Post by Dave on Dec 5, 2014 20:09:23 GMT -5
It wasn't always that way. Many years ago, I brought a dog in to the office because of lethargy, foul odor and poor disposition. They kept her for the day for observation.. In the afternoon I got a call that she vomited an animal skeleton, that she was ok and I could pick her up. When I came to get her, I explained that what she threw up was undigested breakfast.
The office was aghast that I actually fed her a raw chicken back. Didn't I know how dangerous salmonella poisoning was? I told them she'd been raw-fed for two years and many of her ailments disappeared over that time, and she's never been healthier.
That evening she pooped out a sock. Her problem all along was intestinal obstruction, not the chicken back. That's when my vet began to listen.
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