These are the rules for our IBDKitties Facebook group. Please read and follow if you are applying or are a member.
Refusing to follow any of these guidelines are grounds for suspension, removal and/or blocking.
- NO messaging admins unless it’s an emergency about group issues only. Ask all other questions in the group, we won’t do one on one help. If you have an issue with a post please flag it. Also NO blocking admins.
- We are here to help you. If you become rude or belligerent to the owner or admins of this group, you are gone. We aren’t putting up with the beatings anymore.
- NO bullying, no politics.
- NO food shaming, NO vegan or vegetarian diets.
- NO holistic or homeopathic medicine. Slippery elm bark is just fiber, its fine. CBD oil is okay but no mention of THC.
- NO giving away or selling prescription medications or medical supplies; it’s illegal. (It would be fine with us otherwise but we can’t risk being shut down). Giving away food and supplies are fine.
- NO poop, vomit, bloody or anus pictures
- NO re-homing animals, animal abuse stuff, petitions, etc.
- NO fundraising, selling or posting pages of your businesses, products, etc.,
- NO pictures of your kitty’s passing, immediately before passing or afterwards; NO describing in detail how they passed. This is very triggering and too difficult for many.
- NO sending people to other groups if it’s something we can help here; Links for specialty groups such as CKD, cancer, FGESF, etc. will be allowed.
- Keep posts related to IBD.
- NO private messaging other members unless it’s about giving away supplies or food. Everything should be kept in the group.
- Please don’t hijack other people’s posts (start your own thread if you need help). Also don’t comment on old posts (6 months or older). Many times the kitty has passed and it brings up trauma for the pet parent.
- No Chat GPT, Google AI or any other AI source. AI gets its information from all over the internet, right or wrong. Responses should be about personal experience or information from resources such as veterinary, university websites and/or legitimate studies.
- No posts recommending books or videos about diets, health care, supplements or otherwise for cats or pets. These are spam posts, we’ve been inundated with them for the last few years and we’re not allowing it. If you post even once, you will be gone and banned without warning. If you see these posts, even if they sound legit, please flag the post for us to remove them.
The rules are non-negotiable. IBDKitties reserves the right to remove any member without warning for not following these guidelines and to change or add to the guidelines in the future. Anyone who feels someone is violating the guidelines should flag and report the post and we will determine what happens next.