I once put up a post up in the veterinary forums asking why so few vets will see exotic patients (in my case specifically reptiles). I've found there to be a real shortage of qualified vets who will treat the non fuzzy animals. Anyway, I went on to tell a story of one of my pets- a bearded dragon that had a disease called "Yellow Fungus" which is considered ultimately fatal and not treatable (it is NOT- I am proof)). I told a story of several vets telling me the only solution was to euthanize the animal. As this was a young, otherwise healthy animal, I didn't want to accept this. To make long story short, I compounded an anti fungal med and successfully treated the animal which has been in complete remission for several years. I shared this story on the vet forums, thinking naively that maybe someone would appreciate the info on HOW I treated the animal. Yes, I am naive.
Rather than commend my passion and efforts for helping the animal, the vets jumped all over me about "practicing veterinary medicine" (when no local vet would help me other than offering to kill my pet) and generalizing that all reptile owners are essentially a bunch of under educated idiots. They also said some terrible things to me that they assumed about me as a pet owner which I took great offence to. It was implied that if a licensed vet told me to euthanize an animal then I should never have questioned that (how dare I!) and simply killed the animal WHEN I KNEW I COULD DO BETTER. What unbridled arrogance. As a result of this, I responded with anger at the idiocy I was experiencing, which got me a warning and a temp ban for calling out the ethics of the *****s who attacked me. They were the majority and I was seen as the offender. Whatever.
My first response was to tell the mods here to shove their inconsequential forums up their respective asses. I don't know about everyone else, but this forum is used by me only for my amusement. If it shut down tomorrow I would not shed a tear. I really was tempted to tell them to simply remove my membership all together. But I took some time off and returned. Not sure why. Morbid curiosity? Perhaps.
Since then, I've just assumed that all mods are douches who will side with the majority of f*cktards just to keep the MAJORITY of forum members happy. Probably a good rule of thumb. Don't harass the idiot pharmacy snowflakes on their forum by giving them a much needed dose of reality. Don't call out the vets on their forum for their greed and lack of ethics. I had a great deal of respect for the veterinary profession till that day. Fortunately, I still know a few good practitioners in the "real world". Fine to the rest. And f*ck you. You know who you are. X
