Question:
But there is a MAJOR difference between a vet who IS a holistic vet oneone who does things you are now putting into this category such asneutering...you are totally stretching the definition to include whatyou want it to include...you can not compare a true holistic vet with aconventional vet who does spays and neuters and call that vetholistic....here we go with the round and round...twirl yourself Mike.

"The best way to deal with symptoms in the short term is still'modern' medecine."

That is solely your opinion...it is not one I hold unless the issue islife threatening and skin conditions are not usually life threateningand those that opt for antibiotics and steroids most likely rarely thenturn around and use holistic methods or they would have never used thedrugs in the first place.

Answer: No, I'm not. A holistic approach is the other side of the coin from asymptom-driven approach which is what 'modern medicine' can seem to be. Ifyou're just treating symptoms then you wait for an animal to get sick, thendo whatever is necessary to make that symptom go away, then when it getssick again you do it again ad nauseum. Disease prevention is a holisticapproach; rather than treat symptoms you are doing something to try to avoidhaving the symptoms in the first place. Innoculation is not just holisticbut actually a homoeopathic process with holistic intentions. A strictlysymptom-based approach to overpopulation is to kill the extra animals.Extra animals is the symptom of overpopulation. The solution from astrictly symptom-based approach is to kill the extra animals which gets ridof the symptom. Now, we see neutering being pushed *heavily* by theveterinary profession to *prevent* extra animals. Once again we have aholistic approach to a basic tenet of the veterinary profession. Thereprobably isn't a single pet vet in the western world who hasn't administeredinnoculations and performed neutering.