[ SECRET POST #4440 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4440 ⌋

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Comments

[feotakahari]

Forget advocating homeopathy. I don’t trust anyone who personally SELLS homeopathic products.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

True. But the distinction for me is that he isn't advocating using that isntead of medication/vets. He's always advising people to go to vets. What is creepy and terrible about the homeophaty movement for me is the saying to us that instead of doctors. It usually seems tied up with anti-medical stuff, and that isn't the case with Jackson. So while I think that stuff is stupid and useless, I don't think he's actively harming anyone because he isn't telling them not to see vets.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

It's still shitty and dumb and without foundation but I agree that it's not quite as bad

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, is he selling homeopathy stuff? Then that seems kind of like a conflict of interest to me. Even if he's not outright saying "here take this water instead of getting your pet medical care" the implication is there, IMO.

Advising people to take their cat to the vet if they're sick isn't something you give e-cookies for, that's... normal? The lowest bar of decent pet ownership?

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like the homeopathy stuff is placebos for the owners, not the pets. When your cats do normal cat things like play a bit rough with each other or start hating a food they liked for a year or the like, and the human stresses out about it, the cat picks up on the human stress and also stresses out. If the human calms down from "treatment" like special water, so dies their cat.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Does, not "dies" sorry typo bad

[(Anonymous)]

He's scamming people into buying useless bullshit. That is actively harming people. The fact that he has just enough of a conscience to not also scam them into putting their pets' lives at risk to buy even more of his useless bullshit doesn't negate the fact that it's a scam.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think scamming is the right word for someone who actually believes in it. He's very into New Agey things in general, and I think the homeopathy stuff is more about his religious beliefs than anything else.

[dinogrrl]

Yeah, this. I mean, just looking at https://www.jacksongalaxy.com/products/feral-flower-formula.html for example, wtf is 'full color spectrum' as an ingredient? Cats can't see the full color spectrum wtf even is going on?

I am grateful that he's made huge strides in the area of the public's cat awareness, but since I saw the homeopathy stuff on his website, I'm just not comfortable recommending any of his resources to clients (I'm a vet tech who works at a cat-only practice). I've seen how easy it is for well-meaning cat owners to get completely sucked into the world of homeopathy to the point of refusing to listen to their vets, and I've seen how the cats suffer needlessly as a result. It's sad because he does have good information out there but I just...I can't.

[(Anonymous)]

Kind of late, but as a vet tech, do you have the freedom to recommend anything you personally feel is good? I've heard that vet clinics often get "sponsored" by certain products and encouraged to sell them, like Science Diet stuff. I never quite know if I should trust my vet's recommendations (in terms of actual products) or do my own research.

[dinogrrl]

I've worked at a clinic where the vets did not want me discussing or recommending anything to the clients, but that's more because they were shitty bosses who enjoyed the power trip over the unfortunately less-educated clientele, than being sponsored by a particular company. Most other clinics I've been at view making recommendations to clients as basic vet tech duties. As long as I'm not recommending stuff that goes against the clinic's stances on things, and as long as I'm not interfering with specific health requirements of a particular animal, I can pretty much go nuts with whatever I suggest.

It certainly never hurts to do your own research, and to ask your vet for options. If they won't give them to you, or if they won't give you a reason why, that's definitely a big warning sign!

(And yes unfortunately there are vets and clinics that get 'sponsored' by certain companies and yes, Hills/Science Diet is a big offender. They have useful diets but man their marketing team is aggressive.)