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JENNY IN VA
at Wed Aug 6 09:15:02 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by JENNY IN VA ]
Not sure why you picked me to explain myself. Three other people came to the same conclusion as me, but you picked me to explain it. Why? Just curious.
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>>Mystical Dragons
Your's was the first post I saw, the others seemed like they were just agreeing. I wasn't trying to "single you out", just that your post was the most confident sounding.
To be blatantly honest, I was worried about people giving false advice. I see alot of people on here tell new owners how to take care of dragons in ways that I would not agree with, and other people post things that are just plain wrong. If I were new to dragons, and took some of the advice I've seen lately on the forums, I wouldn't have healthy dragons today. There has been alot of talk recently on the boards of calc def, and I didn't agree that this was the problem with this particular post. Vomitting says to me that 1. temps aren't high enough, 2. too much or too large of food was consumed, or 3. parasites. Since twitching is also a sign of too much or too large prey items, calcium didn't cross my mind. I have, however, heard of hypervitaminization (not sure of the spelling?), and I would imagine this can happen with calcium as well. Too much calcium can cause calcification of items in the digestive tract (kidney stones and the like), or even bones spurs, and it seems that lately too many people are telling new owners to run out the vet and get a shot of calcium.
I know when I started out 3 years ago, this forum helped me a great deal to learn from other's experiences. I was honestly just concerned about jumping to calc def as the end all answer to every problem.
Again, no hostility here, just another opinion.
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Jenny
www.happy-dragons.com
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Mattman re: calcium def. - JENNY IN VA, Wed Aug 6 09:15:02 2003