At Your Service: Pet Care Summer 2017

By Joseph Cooper,

Published June 20, 2017 at 3:22 PM EDT

(6-20-2017) If you don’t have enough to worry about, consider “Zoonotic” diseases, when illnesses are spread between animals and people. It’s more common than you think.

Today's Topical Currents is an “At Your Service” edition about pet care, with Dr. Ian Kupkee of the Sabal Chase Animal Clinic, and Animal Behavior specialist, Edel Miedes.

Also, why does a pet just KNOW a vet trip is imminent? If yours freaks out . . . we have advice about curbing that anxiety.

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