Is anyone else irritated with some of the questions...?

Some people are really ridiculous and totally lacking in common sense. Stay away from the Pregnancy category of Yahoo Answers. Stupidity runs rampant there, too.

I used to volunteer at a shelter and it was the same story there. People surrendering their animals because they got too big, they chewed, they had fleas, they shed, they won't stay off the furniture, etc. Some people just refuse to use their brain and take responsibility!

Yes! Those questions literally infuriate me. All the time spent typing & reading answers could be used picking up the phone to call the vet.

Blood coming from where it should be = bad.

I thought that was obvious, apparently I am quite wrong. That's why whenever I correct those people & tell them to go to the vet or express any dislike for these types of questions I get the big thumbs down!

Sorry if you don't like to hear it but if your dog is vomiting up blood or their bones are poking out of it's skin or it hasn't had a bowel movement in 3 days it has to go to the vet & your wasting time on the internet.

I would agree although until I read this question I didn't think I did care, but on reflection I do get annoyed, I tend to put something different each time just so as not to be consistant.....but I think your way is better................. I think we are all conditioned to fill in information about ourself when we have little idea where it is going and what it is planned to be used for, but there is a whole raft of people employed to organise and imput our information into government and company databases............ As side issue I realised in the last few days how much information is collected about me on the computer as I have put Ghostery on ( download from FireFox) and with each click it tells me which organisation/group/ internet collector is tracking me, collecting all information form any website I type anything into...which I can now block and stop any further info going to them...and just while clicking onto different categories on YA you would be amazed at how many click up ( which are now blocked)

No, your not being too harsh. Some people on here that post those are trolls, but the constant ones about breeding their dogs, dogs being sick and limping ones etc drive me batty. Go to the VET! Don't breed if you aren't qualified too! So simple. At least you'd think it was. No one seems to do their research anymore on anything. So frustrating.

That and the people who are too stubborn to listen to good advice and insist they are right, drive me nuts. Why come here and ask a question if you don't want to listen to the answer? Makes no sense lol

Yep yep and yep,

I'm new coming do these things and OMG some of the questions just make me want to jump through the screen and take their animals away from them.

Some of the very OBVIOUS questions just make me shake my head.

You are not being too harsh. at my rate i will never make it past level 1 cuz i'll have to tell a few too many people off :)

the latest that gets me is...i had a new baby so is it ok to shove my dog who has been indoors for 4 yrs outside cuz now it has fur!!

UGH

Some of the extreme ones you've listed are just trolls who should just be ignored.

With some of the less obvious ones (my dog has stopped eating, my dog vomited his breakfast, my cat is limping etc.) - people are either cheap and don't want a vet bill or want they just want assurance that they are not overreacting. Sometimes you can tell by the way they ask the question.

JC you are right. I am sick n tired of the callous way in which many treat their animals. Like a specimen that has no feelings.

Trolls will always be online but then again many questions are from people who no matter how many times you tell them, they will still carry on doing the wrong thing. <sighs heavily>

No, you're not being harsh. I totally completely agree.

Don't forget the ones that say: "omg is it normale 4 a dogg to fome at da muth affer it gets bited by a snak?"

THOSE are the ones that are really really annoying. The BYB's on here make me sick.

"ok so my dog just had puppiez and i tink one of them is stuck in her brth cannel shud i juss leve it or wat?"

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THIS WORLD??

I agree with you completely. Not only do people want you to tell them what to do instead of calling and going to the vet, they want you to tell them what kind of dog to get, what to name it, how to house-train it, when and what to feed it, how to play with it, etc, etc, etc! Doesn't anyone bother to learn anything before they decide to get a pet anymore?

I'm learning to pick and choose which questions I answer. It lowers my stress levels and keeps me sane.

I agree if you have a problem dont let your pets suffer get them to a vet