I am fortunate enough in my 20 years of animal handling experience to never have had an animal with URI or IBD. Now I am not throwing a superiority complex around because I have made SOOOOO many mistakes in the learning process, especially in the 90's when a lot of info was unavailable.



I will still stand by my statement, and IBD research will show that stressful conditions will bring about IBD that has been dormant for years. The point I was making was that regardless of whether it was URI/IBD, the humidity and temp issue needs to be corrected. Even if she doesn't get the necropsy and no one ever knows if it was in fact IBD, something needs to change.



I am not flaming anyone and I GENUINELY feel for anyone who loses an animal. I am very sorry for the OP and generally stay away from on-line controversy. But to tell me to get real and assume that husbandry had nothing to do with this incident is a bit polly-annish. The OP came here asking for help, seems like she realized there was a problem. I agree that she did receive some attitude in some replies and I hope she doesn't leave on account of it. This is usually a great forum, but tones are easily misread on the Internet.



best wishes to you.

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