Regarding a febrile dog with excessive bruising and swelling, significantly elevated vital signs and a seven-pound weight gain in just 40 hours following amputation of a limb, the North Carolina Veterinary Medical Board has recently decided that regardless of failing to perform any diagnostic testing to rule out infection, informing the client that everything is normal, when not one measurement recorded is within the well-established scientific parameters that define normal, is an acceptable practice within the professional standard of care.