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Wish List For Pets
More presents for your favourite pet. Maybe they can’t write to Santa, but most pets get presents under the tree every year. And just like the rest of us, they often get fattening treats, ill-fitting sweaters and toys that will be ignored by Boxing Day. For those of you who...
Mussels can help your pet’s creaky knees
My interest in molluscs was once confined to chowders and pasta dishes. Who knew we’d one day be grinding up marine mussels to produce glucosamine supplements for aging dogs and cats? Hardly a day passes at our clinic that I don’t talk about or prescribe glucosamine. Increasingly, it is my...
Pucks 4 Paws
The Belleville Bulls, Hillcrest Animal Hospital and Hill’s Pet Nutrition have organized “Pucks 4 Paws”, a fund-raising event for the Quinte Humane Society on the evening of November 28th. Please come support our beloved OHL franchise team as they whup the Niagara Ice Dogs that evening and help us to...
Hip hip hooray, it’s Therapy Dog Day
From miniature poodles to Bernese mountain dogs, canines small and large are bringing smiles to lonely faces in nursing homes, hospitals and respite centers throughout the Quinte community. Little Bandit Fowler, an amiable Shetland sheepdog, became a St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog in 2006 and is great at his job,...
