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Beyond Companionship: How Pets Can Help Your Health

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Humans and animals share an extremely important bond. Here, your body goes through a physical change, in which the human stress hormone, cortisol is reduced while the levels of serotonin which are associated with well-being are increased. Psychological benefits. This was a guest post provided by York Vet supplies.

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Service Members Get a Second Chance with Service Dogs

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The DDF will be raising $20,000 for the training and care of a service dog (including medical bills, training and food) which will be donated to one lucky war vet from the FSD group. The vet who is awarded the service dog will be choosing the winning raffle ticket for the Jeep on September 11 at a ceremony (location TBD). “We

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