Pet peeve, literally and figuratively

[F, Calla & Luca]

People come on DK all the time to ask advice. Sometimes they are new and sometimes old members. All fine. But if you come on because your dog is really sick and ask advice and don't give any feedback that is very frustrating. We care about your pet even if we don't know the dog. We like to learn for future reference. If your dog, heaven forbid, died we can understand your delay in responding but otherwise it really is bothersome and downright rude.

I am sure other have pet peeves on DK, feel free to vent.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I agree, F. A lot of us really worry about other people's dogs' health issues, and often spend time looking for information when a question is asked about some illness or problem. We do this out of concern and a desire to be helpful. To never get an update on what happened is worrisome and frustrating. 

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Agreed!

For example

My dog is vomiting and has violent diarrhea. 

Then, we never hear from them again until the next issue.

WTD?

Yep, we worry. 

And, we also could benefit from learning from your experience too.

[Nicky, Riley & Boris]

I agree too. I really worry every single time someone posts that their dogs are ill and then I keep checking back to look for an update. Sometimes there is one and it is embedded in the comments so I trawl through all the comments and sometimes it is added as an update to the original post which is much better. And then there are those who never update at all and I end up thinking maybe the dog died and they are too heartbroken to post (I am a bit of pessimist LOL)

[F, Calla & Luca]

But that could be true and it would help us all to recognize symptoms of a life threatening condition better.

[BG and Gavin]

I totally agree F.  Not following up is my pet peeve in general (in all parts of my life incidentally).  But, specifically to this site it really bothers me with regard to training questions.  I tend to put a great deal of time and effort into giving training suggestions for a certain problem or outlining a specific program to be followed and I always say...please let us know how you made out/if the suggestions worked.  Sadly there is rarely any follow up.  This is frustrating because I would really like to know if my or anyone else's ideas worked or not (will know whether or not it is a good suggestion for the future).  I can even accept that life happened and I got lazy and did not do anything that was suggested, but please, just follow up with something!

[F, Calla & Luca]

Amen.

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

OMD YES!

[BG and Gavin]

Okay, pet peeve number two. (And then I promise to go back to being positive).  People who come on when they are either in crisis or to blog and then never, ever contribute to anyone else's posts or blogs.  So to summarize, my two pet peeves are non-follow-uppers and takers.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Often one and the same : ( but either one is bad including folks who blog away but are rarely if ever seen elsewhere.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Amen, sister!! My pet peeve is people who have 4 or 5 blogs running on the front page at once, yet NEVER respond to anything anyone else discusses or blogs. I don't even click on those blogs. Oh, and another thing, some of those blogs are advertisements, etc. wanting us to click on something that somehow benefits them.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

One of my biggest peeves, too. 

[F, Calla & Luca]

Oh yes, the blogs that are plugs for self profit.