Everyone in their own place

I am sorry to come up against this sad reality every day: the relationship between breeders and veterinarians, rather than being a collaboration based on synergy of skills, has become a daily arm-wrestling.

We have already written about fraudulent diagnosis followed by proposals for expensive and useless surgery, there would be to open the chapter of the wrong diagnosis, which open up a mechanical and lax diagnostic and therapeutic therer, but today I want to focus on the field '86i'.

The veterinarian is the doctor of dogs: to him we do not compete on the beauty assessments as it seems absurd that a doctor would comment on the aesthetics rather than focus on health. If we want a judgment on beauty or on the adherence to the standards of race we go to the judge of morphology. Instead, we find veterinarians who make comments on the value of the dog, inform themselves on pedigree, give advice on mating and on the breeding. Yet many veterinarians are not breeders, some are not even owners. gaffeSome treat prognatism as a defect, but in some races prognatism is expected to be standard. Others lose themselves to highlight the lack of prognatism in a two-month-old puppy, not knowing that prognatism is evaluated after the change of dentatura. Who looks at the ßbra de Pigmentata. What puts doubts to the owner about the skeleton, when everyone knows that the joints of the puppies of big breeds in the early times are normally wavering.

Then there are those who go in search of extravagant genetic defects: at the boxer of our socio had diagnosed closed nostrils and (sic) tongue too long, suggesting examinations and interventions on which we do not comment: to date the dog has done nothing of all this and is fine. Those who exchange the break of a crusader for spondylosis and propose interventions to the spine.

All of the above are real cases and we do not doubt that our Fans will be able to add many more.

Now that veterinarians can be more or less good (as happens in every category), considering that error is human and the mistake from a technical point of view can happen, what we would like to call the veterinarians to a little more attention and tact in suggesting to the owners defects and/or pathologies true or presumed in their dogs. The impression is that on the contrary the owner's anxiety is exploited to widen the diagnostics with as much as useless or harmful early examinations: not uncommon under anesthesia. The result of these light behaviors often is the loss of confidence towards the breeder, that the owner begins to look like what has given him a bad dog.

Everyone stays in his place: the veterinarian curs the real diseases (possibly with accurate diagnosis) and does not go in search of defects. The breeder stays close to the owners to solve those problems, which in most cases are linked to the normal stages of growth of the dog.

The owners recommend not to be discouraged in front of a few fosche diagnosis and always hear at least two different opinions. The veterinarian is a professional, not a god: especially when they are proposed tests, interventions, complicated and expensive therapies, it is always useful to hear another response. In most cases then it will be necessary to consult with the breeder, who knows the breed and his own blood line and will know how to distinguish an important clinical case, from a problem resolvable with growth. The problem in general is that among the veterinarians. as in every other field. there are many mestieranti and few who really practice the profession: to make it the costs the owners unnecessarily confused, the discredited breeders and the dogs sometimes object of analysis, care and interventions out of place.

Testimonials

After having my boxer paired and went to my vet of trust, as well as friend, to know how the pregnancy was proceeding, I was quite upset to know that instead of the puppies my little one had bags full of pure material due perhaps to a possible tumor. After several tests including the ultrasound to ascertain the truthfulness of the diagnosis, the verdict was always the same unfortunately. So not convinced the porter of another veterinarian who from a subsequent ultrasound I had found the presence of 5 puppies. The astonishment and happiness was great but also this time was made a slight mistake because in fact the puppies were 7 as I had told Stefano Bartolini, the only one of whom I trusted, who had heard them with a simple palpazione. at this point every comment seems completely superfluous!!

I agree in full. At my Icarus for a banal inflammation of the gut had diagnosed IBD incurabile and a veterinarian even short life. After a year of unnecessary care, changed 5 vets, Icarus weighed only 32 kg and was really very debilitated. After a simple care of flax seeds and a still green prescribed us by the mythical doctor. Blond Lari recommended us by the dear and always present at the side of his dogs Stefano Bartolini, Icaro is in good shape (weight 41 kg to today). Thanks Stefano and thanks to the doctor. Blondi. Fortunately there are also many serious and competent people but you really have to be careful to all the goats around!!!

If you knew how many I heard, the last one just 20 days ago when a female of mine near birth had greenish losses and two vets told me to wait, I didn't believe I called who always told me the truth and I ran to make a cesary. If I had waited as the vets said I would bury fatrice and puppies.