Please be specific in the topic line...

If you have a sick pet... then please, give a brief description of the problem... don't use partial phrases such as "worried" or "what do you think"...

People are more likely to respond quicker when the topic is clearly noted. It will expedite the process - especially in situations where a pet is ailing.

Thanks.

ok!!! ill keep that in mind

ok

ok then people wont have to ask questions and will know whats going on, insted of woundering what the person is talking about.

Help
On dog dish I had a new topic qued. It was titled, What An Experience. A few minutes later it was up. I opened it to correct typos and spelling errors. It requed. Now I can see the topic, but is is frozen.

What is happening?

Can't some kind of prewarning be given us prior to queing? I am a slow typest, it is very frustrating to have a long reponse disappear into the unkown. There must be a way for the queing mechanism to warn us at submission so that we can review and correct any possible "trigger" words.

Thanks for any response!

or even better a spell check!!!! and the que thingthing, ya i think that that will be realy good!

GOING, GOING, GONE
The qued message is now gone. It was up. Then it was locked. Now it is gone. Why?

lizzie - there have been ongoing problems with the system today - and we are trying to isolate what is actually happening... which is not easy.

I approved that topic early in the day... came back on to find it in the queue again... approved it once again... now I can't find it at all.

Please bear with us... there was an unannounced migration last weekend - and since then, moderators have noted various sporadic glitches... which have no pattern - making it more difficult to identify the specific problem.

Your patience is appreciated. Thanks.

MOD_KELLY
There seems to be a trend here of postings that are off topic.

This forum is titled, Pet Talk. Many recent postings have very little to do with pets. Some do not even have anything to do with animals.

There is a forum for general animal discussions through Discovery Channel websites. There are also discussion forums on just about any topic. Even the Myth Busters have a place to discuss their show.

I really appreciate the work you do here. However, I do think that you should help guide the members towards pet related topics. I have noticed many regulars are either gone or visiting very infrequently. I think having too many general topics may be a contributing factor to that.

Thanks for any feedback.

Thanks... I was on vacation and am now "cleaning up". My backup had his hands full.

Thanks.

I'd like to know what happened to the E-Vet Forum, but I don't see anywhere I can ask for that & since I've communicated with you, mod_Kelly, I figured this is good enough.

Dragonfly Beistlebub19@cox.net

Dragonfly... it was removed at the direction of AP... simply because the program is no longer on the air.

Sorry.

Update regarding Emergency Vets the show is coming back on Sept. 26th...

http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/e-vets/e-vets.html

Hi Mod_Kelly, I hope you are able to read this.

We have been having a few problems with old topics being bumped. It is beginning to get irritating as the original poster of the topic is no longer available to see the reply, and our new topics are being buried and lost. I created a topic to bring this issue to other people's attention, but it doens't appear to have done any good. I think it would be highly appreciated if you could close all the topics from the year 2005 and make them read only topics. Could you possibly do this?

Thanks once again,
Sugarbird

I have 2 cats brother and sister they are three years old and have been best friends until just recently sissy(the female) was sick and had to be put on an antibiotic and ever since then she won't let Luther near her. Its been almost 2 weeks now and we still have to keep them in separate rooms. Any sugestions?

take this post- copy it and open up cat talk and paste and I bet you have lots of help! They may not see it here..

Meanwhile- most antibiotics changes the smell of the urine. I would bet that is half the problem. Is the cat off the antibiotics yet?

my kitten fell off of my bed and now she's favoring the other foot she is only 5-6 weeks old very playful what do I do. I have noticed that when she does try to walk
she will lightly touch the foot to the ground. she doen't cry or anything when she is walking does that mean she dosen't have pain. Please can you give me some in sight on this. Rebecca

I recently adopted a female pom/spitz mix from a rescue group. She is about 2yrs. old. I was aware that she was shy and maybe could have been abused. She bonded with me quite quickly. The first few days she shyed away from my two adult children. Now, which is about 3 wks. later she is now growling and barking at them. My son still pets her even though she is growling..never bit yet.
My children do not push themselves on Princess, nor do they yell or shout at her. Any suggestions would be appreciated. She is a great dog other than this. I know this may take alot of time for her to trust the other family members. But Im not sure how to go about it.

Welcome pomqueen- with dogs coming out of a possible abuse situation, after the dog has settled a little bit, its now time to look at the areas of weakness. In this case, its the relationship with the children. Have the children start doing things for her, like making her dinner, taking her out, giving treats. You be the " bad guy" when it comes to baths, and if she likes being brushed- they do it, if she doesnt like to be brushed- you do it. When they come home, they say hello to the dog first. Now I know that sounds silly, but in the dogs mind, they elevated the dog to their level and bonds as a pack.. Keep us posted..