[Dailydrool] Bev's articles

[Beverly Szaton]

I think I put like ten caveats about the neutering article in particular
and said that it was a very limited study with no control group. I believe
it also mentioned that there were only a couple of breeds used which might
have a predisposition to the diseases developed anyway.
At any rate this is one reason I am so hestitant to suggest articles of any
kind, and I probably should have just kept quiet.
All articles like these need to be read with great caution: who sponsored
the study, for example? Is a study about dog food sponsored by IAMS
unbiased? Maybe. Maybe not.
How big was the study? Were there 3000 dogs studied for 10 years, or 8 dogs
studied for 10 years or 3000 dogs studied for 10 days?
I did not intend to suggest that either study was definitive or absolute.
They were interesting for what they suggest, not what they prove.

As to being crazy, in her book THE ORCHID THIEF, Susan Orlean quotes one of
her sources as stating that the only people crazier than Orchid people are
Dog people.

MomPerson to Nigel, Llewis, Conley and Doc
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