over the counter medication?

[mr.spooky]

so wait, you guys are mad at this melissa person because she doesn't think that everyone should be able to keep exotic pets? not everyone should have kids either.

and i have had too many experience with greedy vets. Complain all you want about school bills, anyone who's gone to college has them...and everyone works to pay them off. It's not like vets don't make money. please. you also can't tell me that vets in one area, say...in L.A. Southern California, don't charge more than say, Eastern Oregon.
. thats because of geographic location, the true answer to this is to choose a cheaper place to live.
In my exact experience, this is true.

You guys are being pretty defensive of my opinion of vets and their charges. i really doubt any of you have seen the prices down here in southern cali.

Also, why on earth would it be okay to give your own shots to your dog, and treat most worms or parasites, but then you frown on someone who says you don't need to go to a vet for that? Contradiction.
how are you going to know what your treating until you take any animal to the vet? after taking to the vet, if you decide to administer treatment,, well, thats up to you.
Agreed, as someone bleated, there are no magic pills to cure all parasites...but there ARE pills that are sold over the counter, and they ARE the same ingredients as the vet sells you. If you are knowledgeable about giving them to your animals, as someone else suggested you should be to do it....then there is not a problem, and you do not need a $58 dollar vet fee to figure that out.
so now your saying that your as knowledgeable as a chemest or a pharmacist? most people know just enough to be dangerous.

As for someone else saying "spend years learning about it yourself, or get another vet" yeah, buddy, that's my point. I do read about it, and i do what i can myself, and i have not had the same vet twice (except when i lived in eastern Oregon, actually).

So I will admit my post had a frustrated tone. yeah, i'm frustrated.

If you say the vet's office is a business...and they want my money for medcine, and they want to pay off their expensive and amazing educations, then why wouldn't they match prices for the internet, or at least offer a more realistic cost to someone who points out their price is high? It's just easier to not sell it at all? That's really stupid business. I mean, after all, some money is some money, and better than none...especially when their school is SO expensive and just regular work cannot cut it to cover bills!
LOL their in the medical field,,, .. if you want to argue matching prices, go to a car lot, or the flea market.

I'm sorry...actually no, i'm not. Probably 90% of you are responding as a knee-jerk reaction. I don't think the vet treating about 1,000 chihuahuas and driving corvet needs my money. That is actually how it is in my area.
I chose the wrong vet when she said she treated reptiles *shrug* that was my point. You guys can get as snarky as you want, but you're just being annoying.

I mean, where do you guys have the gall to, on one hand, fuss at me for trying to do what I can for my pets and rescues at a reasonable price, and doing and learning on my own to treat them when i can...and then on the other hand get high and mighty and make fun of internet posts by someone who has gone to way more "expensive" schooling than you and say it's all wrong? Have YOU Studied as much as this melissa person or are you just mad that she doesn't think everyone should own exotics? lol
im sorry, corect me if im wrong,, but i dont remember seeing any DVM titles, PHD's or anything like that behind her name?? like i said i might be wrong... if not, then shees just another person with an opinion.

Jeez. The first link you put up is just another forum complaining about that chick. I don't know anything about monitors so i have no idea if the second one is right or wrong...but neither do you...do you? I mean you just automatically bring your pets straight to the vet, so why would you even pay attention to anything on the internet??

on the internet, you can also find people that think a portal is going to open in 2012 and if they dont jump through it in just the right time, the world will perish. we should be careful what we believe.
in the end, yes, i would rub some benadryl on a rash on my dog. thats about it.

spooky