Pretty sure her leg is broken, but I have a few questions ...

DrCarrotTail

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M_surinamensis - thanks for the healthy dose of reality. I agree that diagnosis cannot be made from a photograph and/or subjective information. Those people who look to this forum often take advice at face value and don’t think of the source it’s coming from. They don’t have a way to measure whether the advice they are given is good or bad and therefore run the risk of implementing procedures that are risky and can often do a lot more harm than good. I hope the others who read this thread will think more critically before they offer advice. I know I will be more careful about definitive statements in my posts.
 

Embrace Calamity

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M_surinamensis - thanks for the healthy dose of reality. I agree that diagnosis cannot be made from a photograph and/or subjective information. Those people who look to this forum often take advice at face value and don’t think of the source it’s coming from. They don’t have a way to measure whether the advice they are given is good or bad and therefore run the risk of implementing procedures that are risky and can often do a lot more harm than good. I hope the others who read this thread will think more critically before they offer advice. I know I will be more careful about definitive statements in my posts.
I would hope there's no one here stupid enough to take "It looks like MBD to me" and "You should see a vet" as "It's definitely, unequivocally MBD. Definitely don't see a vet." I guess there are people that idiotic in the world, though.

~Maggot
 

katie_

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And as for shutting this part of the forum down, its nice in theory. People will just post their medication questions in a different portion of the thread.
 

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