You know what the reality is?
1. I get swamped with THANK YOU NOTES from many, many raw feeders each
time I forward the alerts about which foods they need to avoid while a
rare few complain, and the rare few who complain get rude about it.
2. I get swamped with THANK YOU NOTES each time I give kibble warnings
(but not as many thank yous as for the meat recall notices) and no one
complains, though the same few raw feeding people who complain when I
give the warnings about things that are currently too dangerous to
serve raw try to say it proves that they are right. (I wonder if saying
this will stop that gut reaction of theirs this time since I sent in a
pet food alert i just received.)
3. I almost never hear from the people who do made-at-home cooked food
except for a gracious few.

So, most people thank me. Why should I worry all that much about the
people who are rude exceptions when they are rude to or about me
personally as long as they don't misrepresent and as long as they don't
expect me to drop everything else to help them day or night whenever
they run into a medical problem and then turn around and figure they
can kick me around and never show thanks?

Most people appreciate the alerts and behave logically about them, not
over-reacting, just as most people are wonderfully fair and kind about
honoring the choices of others instead of nagging and harassing. The
reality for those who don't know it is that most of the people who feed
raw are every bit as kind and gracious and thankful for helpful info
as those who feed kibble or food made at home. A noisy and rude few
make them look like fanatics at times but the vast majority are not
fanatics, they are just people who weigh the evidence differently from
those of us who prefer kibble and honor the choices of others, even
when they differ from their own.

So, can all this silliness and rudeness be put to bed?

Sukie (not a vet)

Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html

[Posted in FML 6064]