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The art of Mark Maggiori

You know what makes more money for vet practices than prescription diets? Malnutrition or pancreatitis. Or exploratory laparotomy surgery to remove raw bones that have perforated or impacted the intestines. Or bacterial infections causing massive gastroenteritis.

You know what makes more money for vet practices than annual health checks? Chemotherapy, tumours that need extensive surgery to remove, chronic conditions that have gone unnoticed and therefore need intensive hospitalisation to stabilise.

You know what makes more money for vet practices than neutering? Pyometra emergency surgery and stabilisation, or mammary strips to remove mammary carcinomas.

We don’t want your pets to get ill, otherwise we’d offer you nothing and rake it in later at yours and the animal’s expense.

Shockingly, vets/nurses/care assistants do actually go into the veterinary profession because we care about animals and their wellbeing.

What I've seen from pet owners "doing their own research"

- diet trial after diet trial completely ruined because people think feeding grain free is exactly the same - leaving the only food to use left to be the expensive hydrolysed diets

- horrible gastroenteritis caused by salmonella or campylobacter due to feeding raw food (either improperly made by owner or not stored correctly by owner)

- a well controlled IBD patient completely relapse because "grain free" is better than the strict diet worked out for them

- dogs with food intolerance relapsing with every "new" "natural" food their owner gets sold into trying

- taurine deficiencies in cats making a come back 😭😭😭😭

- metabolic bone diseases in large breed puppies making a come back 😭😭😭😭

- bones cracking teeth, getting stuck at various points in the gastrointestinal tract, causing pancreatitis, and causing horrid constipation