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Great information about caring for your pet dog or cat. From pet grooming to veterinary health concerns, we hope you enjoy our on-going articles and make Independence Pet Hospital your pet advice resource. When in doubt, we encourage you to contact our local Monroe Ohio Veterinarian for advice.

pets and ticks
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How to Deal with Pesky Ticks on Pets

As the weather warms up, many of us will be heading outside to enjoy the great outdoors with our friends, family, and pets. Tall grasses and areas of shrubs and bushes may seem harmless, but they provide the perfect hiding spot for ticks, a troublesome blood-feeding parasite that can carry and transmit many different diseases including Lyme disease and Rocky

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Pet Obesity pug in a veterinary hospital
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How to Combat Pet Obesity: A New Year’s Resolution

Pet obesity is the most common preventable disease in dogs and cats in the United States. It was estimated that 60% of cats and 56% of dogs in the United States were overweight or obese, making it the eighth consecutive year where there has been an increase in pet obesity. While a lot of pet owners go to focus on

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dog's bad breath
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How to Deal with your Cat or Dog’s Bad Breath

We all know pet owners love to cuddle with their cat or dog. When we want to be close with our pet, a cat or dog’s bad breath is something that can make any owner certainly gag! Even though your pet may think you appreciate a big wet kiss, if they have a bad odor coming from their mouth, that

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Outdoor Pets
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Concerns For Outdoor Pets

For some animals, nothing compares to fresh air and a big grassy lawn. A lot of pet owners have legitimate concerns about their outdoor pets. Do you feel guilty about depriving their pets of the great outdoors? We sometimes will go to extreme measures to get our furbabies that simple pleasure of being outside from elaborate fencing to leashes. For

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Veterinary Pet Exams
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Are Yearly Pet Exams Necessary?

You might already guess that we can’t help but be biased on this matter, but hear us out. It’s not that uncommon for pet owners to forget to bring them in for their yearly pet exams. If the pet’s health hasn’t changed, you currently lack the funds, and/or it stresses the animal out, why worry about it? We will give

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