Pet Care Corner: Understanding Your Dog’s Language

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| By Rachel Ackerman of Pawsitivity | As all loving dog owners know, dogs are expressive and emotional creatures. They communicate when they’re sad, happy, excited, fearful, angry, or anxious. Their language is elaborate and sophisticated, using eyes, ears, faces, …

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Pet Care Corner: Dogs With The Longest Life Span

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Chihuahua Average Lifespan- 18 years, maximum 20 years

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Pet Care Corner: Physical Rehabilitation for the Pets of Asheville

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| By Dr. Beth Rhyne | Asheville, North Carolina has a reputation as being an animal-friendly town, and now pet owners have another opportunity to expand care for their beloved family member!

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Pet Care Corner: Your Dog Deserves a Spa Day!

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| By Rachel Ackerman | What is a pet spa, and why does it matter? Imagine walking into your favorite local spa for a spa day. There is soft music, a light scent of aromatherapy, and a warm professional greeting …

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Pet Care Corner: What Things are Toxic to Your Pets?

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| Provided By The Animal Hospital of North Asheville | The ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center tallied calls received in 2014, and some common themes emerged. Check out the 10 substances that accounted for the most calls.

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Pet Care Corner: Saving Animals - One Life and One Litter at a Time

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- By Community Partnership For Pets - Most people understand that when puppies, kittens, dogs, and cats are rescued, more times  than not the animals are coming from ‘not always good’ situations. Whether someone has rescued a puppy from a …

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Pet Care Corner: Jackson’s Emergency

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— By Jackson the Dachshund (as told to Dr. Beth Hampton Jones) — My name is Jackson. I am a four-year-old black and tan dachshund. I am also neutered, but I don’t really like to talk about that. I have …

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Pet Care Corner: Support Buncombe County Animals at Taste of Compassion

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  Courtesy of Animal Hospital of North Asheville   For many years, AHNA has appreciated and supported the work that Asheville Humane Society does to save and improve the lives of our local homeless pets. Asheville Humane Society never turns …

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Pet Care Corner: African Grey Parrots

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  Courtesy of Animal Hospital of North Asheville   The African Grey (Psittacus erithacus) from central Africa is a highly intelligent bird commonly encountered in captivity. This elegant medium-sized bird is entirely grey with a strikingly red short blunt tail. …

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Pet Care Corner: Heart Murmurs in Dogs and Cats

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  By Dr. Caroline Kiss, Courtesy of Animal Hosp of North Asheville   A heart murmur is an abnormal sound heard on auscultation (listening) of the heart with a stethoscope. The normal heart makes two distinct sounds often described as …

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The Ginko Walk: A Cat’s Gift

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  By Connie Regan-Blake & Nancy Shapiro-Pikelny   This is a true story, written as a picture book for children.   One winter afternoon, a tiny calico kitten walked down from the Blue Ridge Mountains and into Connie’s life. She …

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Switched Allegiances

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  By Bonita Osley   At ten years old, directly in the middle of a family with thirteen kids, it was pretty amazing that I collected ownership of anything, much less a playful puppy. However, my claiming rights to the …

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Mindfully Yours: Ask Not What Your Dog Can Do For You

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  By Judith Toy   There is much written about the benefits of dogs to humans, but what about the benefits of humans to dogs? When it comes to mindfulness, dogs are my teachers. They are quite Zen. They speak …

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Through the Years

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  By Ryan Jo Summers   I was recently asked why I have such old animals and it got me to thinking. It had been directed at Scrapper, my sixteen and a half year old Papillion, but it could have …

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