Is there a community for asking questions about pet symptoms? Maybe a place where vets share advice?

I already go to my local vet with our dogs when needed but we have no vets for aquatic animals here and I could use some advice about an issue some of my fish have.

I could imagine though that it could also be a good place to share experiences and advice about more obscure issues for any pet, like SLO in dogs. We got a diagnosis from the vet, but a lot more advice online about it.

  • GONADS125@lemmy.world
    21·
    9 months ago

    I think this is a great idea for a community. I’m not aware of any such community on lemmy yet. You could always create one.

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
      41·
      9 months ago

      I have no problem creating one but I expect to find it difficult to manage and attract users to it.

      • GONADS125@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        Yeah attracting (active) users is the real challenge…

        I created [email protected] and hoped that I could cultivate some active posters before I ran out of my years worth of content from r/vans on reddit, but that didn’t happen…

        I haven’t given up on it (definitely took a hiatus tho…) and need to post some new material, but it’s not easy to cultivate active communities. Especially when all of life’s bullshit gets in the way.

        But I remember early communities on reddit where I was one of like 5 active posters for a long time, then users would eventually overwhelm the community. r/MisleadingThumbnails is an example.

        • betheydocrime@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 months ago

          I think the way to go right now is to create or post in broader, more top-level kind of communities. Lemmy doesn’t really have a lot of traffic, and what would probably be a small or medium community over on Reddit is a niche community over here.

          To avoid that, find or make something like /c/shoes then post your Vans content there. You may find a larger audience more quickly, and can break out in to smaller subcommunities when there’s enough content submitters to justify it