Score 1 for us!

[Moviedust]

Just thought I'd share that, due to the advice from the board, months and months ago I printed off the health information about cavaliers and gave a file on the breed to my vet, who had never had a cavalier patient before.

Yesterday, when Cedar and I stopped in to pick up some heartworm meds, the receptionist told me that, because of those papes, she was able to give some information and advice to a woman who had inquired at the office about Cavaliers. Because of what they learned about SM and MVD through those documents, they were able to educate the woman.

[Linda]

Way to go Cindy.
It was great of you to give that info to your Vet and that they passed
it on.

[Cathy T]

Good job! WE are the way to pass on information and inform people. Kudos to you!!

[LauraD]

Wow, that's great! The more education that gets out there, the better to help this wonderful breed of dogs. You did a very helpful thing and now there are at least 2 more people that learned something. Hats off to you!

Laura

[Karlin]

Hey, that's great -- vets really are general specialists on all animals and in my own experience, a good vets will listen, be interested and appreciate some extra info to help them advise their clients. And also, that information may help them to help a client if a dog is showing unusual symptoms -- so many people with SM dogs in particular can spend months, even years failing to get a diagnosis that could have relieved the pain sooner and prevented a lot of useless additonal tests and experiments with various drugs that won't be able to help. A lot of vets don't realise the extent of MVD in the breed either, or how early it can show, so helping vets to learn a bit more about cavaliers has so much potential to help other people and other cavaliers!

[Moviedust]

I only gave the info to the vet because of all the information here. I didnt know it all before, and I knew my vet didnt know. So it's all a collaborate effort to help the breed.

[Jen]

Nice work, it's so important to do that!