Why do people have to be such sarcastic arseholes? Yeah, they should just instantly go the vet, or could just google how to treat their dog. But how hard is it to just, you know, be a human being and offer advice and comfort to a person who is clearly in distress and freaking about their dog and asking advice? Have you thought that maybe that person can’t afford to go to the vets or can’t get to one easily, or don’t know their local vets? Why are people such jerks? What does is cost to just be nice?
They have to be such sarcastic assholes because these asks keep getting sent to them even after Dr Ferox keeps telling people time and time again that she legally and physically cannot diagnose any animal over a 250-character message, let alone without a physical exam.
Are they worth the time and money to potentially save your pet’s life though? Because that’s basically what we’re looking at here. I get that you have to pay up the ass for emergency services and not everybody can afford it, and that sucks, but in what universe is demanding a diagnosis in fifty-eight characters, zero details, from a vet running a blog in their own spare time any less of a dick move from the asker? Are you willing to work for free in your own spare time when you’ve got like .01% of the things you need for it? No? Then why should she, or any of the other vets?
First I will hop of a plane and fly to Mexico! Because I do not know where in the world you are but at least Mexico must have Mexican chocolate, right? I will start there.
I will disembark the plane after a 20 hour flight, smelling of sweat and cheap airline food, and grab the nearest person on the ground, grasping their shirt front and insisting they tell me how to find the dog of an anonymous person on tumblr that ate some chocolate. And then when they shove me away, declaring me crazy or asking meekly “what’s a tumblr” I will move onto the next unhelpful local.
Questions like “what sort of dog is it” or “How big” or “how old” will go unanswered because I simply do not know. I am just trying to find this dog and anon to help!
Some will ask if I even know they are in Mexico! But I know no other place to start this quest, anon. I have only one clue. Some will wonder where in the world measures chocolate by the circle instead of by weight and we may ponder this together as I await the buss to take me to my next lead.
I am coming Anon. I will help your dog, because you asked.
Or, instead, you could call your local vet clinic and/or their after hours number.
I mean, “don’t be a dick” didn’t stop these messages from being asked over and over and over and over and over and over, so maybe being a dick will work this time.
Watch me be even more of a jerk.
It is in the FAQ not to ask me these time sensitive questions OR specific veterinary advice.
It is frankly a dumb thing to do.
I have been nice for 5 years. These highly inappropriate questions keep coming.
This question is I don’t know how many days old? If they are waiting for my response they are very stupid. And depending on how much this mysterious ‘circle’ is, I don’t know, the dog might even be dead? I should have to bare that, why?
As I have said a hundred times before, calling the vet clinic, phone calls, are pretty much free.
I am a feeling human being and I am tired
of people ignoring being told not to ask these questions, not reading
the FAQ, not using their own brain, throwing responsibility for whatever
happens onto me, thinking they deserve or will get an exception because
I must be willing to work for free in my precious little spare time and
meanwhile because they have ‘asked a vet’ on the internet they think
they’ve done enough? How unfair that they type off one sentence and
expect an answer which to be thorough enough to address all their
variables is going to be about a thousand words long.
Yeah, no.
Being
polite has not worked. So instead of boring readers with yet another
“call your vet” response, I spiced it up a little. I at least value my
time, even if you think I should be working 24/7 at the beck and call of
the entire internet.
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