The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) hosts numerous discussion venues for AVMA members, others veterinary professionals and members of the general public interested in veterinary medicine and animal health.

These venues are open, and we welcome collegial discussion in them. But they also are intended to be professional and family-friendly. So please keep your comments and posts clean, and please be respectful of the rights of others to hold and express their own opinions.

While it is our intention to never ban individuals from our pages, if content violates our policy, we reserve the right to remove that content and may warn or block the offending user. The following activities or types of posts may be removed, and the offending user may be given a warning or may be banned, depending on the severity of the offense:

1) Personal attacks;
2) Posts or comments that make obscene remarks about or attacks on the veterinary profession;
3) Graphic, obscene, explicit, sexist or racist comments;
4) Spam, solicitations and advertisements, including website promotion;
5) "Bumping" content by repeatedly bringing existing or past issues to the top of the page/discussion;
6) Posts and comments that are blatantly off-topic;
7) Copyrighted material posted without the permission of the copyright owner.

Our discussion venues are not intended for providing diagnosis or treatment recommendations regarding animal health problems. An online resource is not a substitute for veterinary examination, and online interaction is not a valid Veterinarian-Client-Patient Relationship (VCPR).