Easy Rider
What dog owner hasn’t once considered including their dog(s) in their vacation plans? It may seem especially appealing when the trip involves traveling by car. Some of you might even do it regularly & have some tips for the rest of us. There is no doubt that, from time to time, traveling with your dog can be a fun way to go. There is also little doubt that it can go the wrong way. I’m even going to bet that as each one of you read the first few sentences of this article, your imagination or your memory quickly created a little movie depicting that very scenario. Your canine road film might have played out as a love story, a romantic comedy, a drama, a thriller or a horror movie. I definitely know how I saw my own just now.

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MEMORIES CAN LAST FOREVER…LITERALLY
We’ve all experienced the loss of a pet. The feelings of loss and grief can be overwhelming. Most often, the animal is cremated and either buried in a pet cemetery, your own property (only if it’s legal in your neighborhood, of course), or one might even save the ashes in an urn and keep them close by.

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“The Psyche of the Male Veterinary Client”
Dr. Kent Kraus, DVM
Let’s face it gentlemen, women are the natural caregivers to society, humanity & the World. (This, of course, is a general observation. There’s no need to send any hate-mail calling me a gutless, spineless, pedicure-getting, “Metro-sexual”.) All I’m saying is that because women tend to be the “caregivers”, they also tend to be better veterinary clients than men. One of the best examples I can think of is that if it were left up to the male of the species to have their pets vaccinated, spayed or neutered, there would only be around ten Veterinarians in the KC Metro instead of over 500

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