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Fleas! Fleas! Fleas!
Here at Hillcrest Animal Hospital fleas are the single most common problem that we deal with over the year. Believe it or not, even dinosaurs suffered from fleas! The ancestor of today’s flea can be traced back well over 100 million years. Keep this in mind when you are trying to eliminate them from your […]
Arthritis and “Old Age”
Arthritis, or more properly, degenerative joint disease (djd), is one of my favourite educational topics with clients. Many people have the mistaken idea that dogs (and cats) become lame and less mobile with age. This is simply not so. When dogs seem a bit slow to get up, when they stop jumping up into the […]
