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Pet Foster Care Helps To Smooth Adoption Process

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Fortunately, pet foster parents offer a solution to this issue by allowing pets the time to adjust to a home life with human companions before they find their forever home. VCA Animal Hospitals run several Shelter Partnership Programs with animal shelters and humane societies all across the U.S.

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Debbie Souza-Pappas: Our Trapped Golden Eagle

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Ipsen of Payson Family Pet Hospital in Payson, Utah, is our wildlife vet and very skilled at orthopedic surgeries. He has been our vet for many years and sees many of our patients in need of surgery. This process is known as distraction osteogenesis. Our veterinarian, Dr. Jay D.

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How to Identify Food Intolerances in Pets

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For new puppies that are under the age of 1-year, many vets will recommend probiotics, which can be purchased online via a Canadian drug store and dispensed in your pet’s food in order to establish gut balance and good digestion early on. Food allergies and food intolerances affect our pets much the same way they strike humans.

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Guest Post: Understanding Pet Food Labels

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De-mystify the labeling on a lot of pet food – “natural,&# “raw,&# “human grade,&# “FDA approved&#. Pet food may be highly processed and still be considered “natural”. Human Grade” is far superior to the “feed grade” found in most pet food. Karen Scoggins, My Perfect Pet.

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Guest Post: Cancer in Cats

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The bottom line is, if you suspect your cat of having something wrong with her, go see your vet. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatments are costly but effect solutions that work in similar ways to humans. Aid in the healing process. Cats are also vulnerable to a large variety of diseases including lung and skin cancer.

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Wisconsin Falconer Legally Traps Snowy Owl

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Turns out the founder of TRC and many the vets who worked in clinic were falconers as well. Falconers must always keep their birds somewhat wild so if they get separated or the bird flies off never to return, it can still survive on it’s own without human intervention. I learned that I knew nothing of falconry.

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A Hamster’s Story: The making of a novel

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It happened too fast for little Emmie to process. Like he was the human and she was the hamster. And when she did have time for Hamlet, Emmie cried and pleaded with her mom to take him to the vet. As if the vet had a cure for old age. Hamlet’s organs were shutting down – it was the humane thing to do.

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