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Canine Distemper Virus- what dog owners need to know

Our local news broke a sad story. Stray Rescue of St. Louis is experiencing an outbreak of distemper among their dogs,

Everybody (hopefully) knows the “Halloween pet safety” shpeal: Don’t give your dog chocolate, raisins, or chocolate-covered raisins. Some sugar free

When you find out your dog (or, in many cases, foster dog) is heartworm positive, you want to fix it!

With the first deep snow of the season, I see many many older dogs present for “not being able to

Everybody (hopefully) knows the “pet safety” shpeal: Don’t give your dog chocolate. Some sugar free foods are toxic. Keep your

What an animal weighs is just a number. The current trend in people is to use body composition, or “percent

Everyone knows how important it is to keep dogs on monthly heartworm preventative. But can cats get heartworm? Let’s see…..

Many neighborhoods have their own fireworks going on the entire week leading up to the July Fourth holiday. If you

More and more boarding facilities are opening, and summer is the busy time for them. Some are new on the

“There’s something wrong with her eyes.” I hear that often enough. Most often, it’s something normal that just looks unusual