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News from Alta Rancho Pet & Bird
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March 2009
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Dear Reid,
Greetings friends,
Spring is in the air, and we hope
that you and your pets will have
time to get out and enjoy one of the
best seasons of the year.
National Pet Dental Month was a huge
success as hundreds of pets came in
to have their teeth evaluated and
cleaned.
We
know the economic news may be
leading to people putting off
veterinary services. However, in
most cases, delaying treatment can
allow the problem to progress, do
more damage to your pet and
ultimately cost you more money.
To help you get a jump on tumors
which may cause your pet a serious
problem if left untreated,
we are offering the histopathology
testing ($105.00 value) for free
with all tumor removals until the
end of April. If there are lumps
and bumps on your pet, which have
been worrying you, now is the
perfect time to have them attended
to.
We
are always trying to improve and
grow our practice. One way to do
that is through positive reviews and
recommendations from our happy
clientele. I'd like to solicit
stories, testimonials and photos
from you to post on this site as
well as post reviews of our practice
in online search engines.
Click here if you have a story to
share and please post it on both our
website and the various search
engines that are listed on this
link.
If you have a complaint, you can
use the same form to send it
directly to me, but I ask you to let
me respond to it before you place it
indelibly on the web.
Thank you for entrusting your pet's
health care to us.
Sincerely,
Reid Shufer, D.V.M.
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Contact Us |
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8677 19th Street
Rancho Cucamonga, California 91701
Phone: 909-980-3575
Fax: 909-948-5167
e-mail: Arphweb@aol.com
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Mosquitoes on the rise from
foreclosures, is your pet at
risk?
 With
the rise in foreclosures in
Southern California, the number
of poorly managed pools with
standing water is on the rise
and with them, the population of
mosquitoes is growing rapidly.
This coupled with the decent
amount of rain we've had this
month portends a mosquito filled
spring and summer!
As you may know, mosquitoes
carry the deadly
heartworm disease as well as
West Nile Virus.
For this reason, we highly
recommend that all dogs be
tested for heartworm disease and
be placed on once-a-month
preventative to protect them
from getting infected by a
mosquito.
Unfortunately, there is no
vaccine or medicine to prevent
West Nile disease in pets or in
people! Therefore, you should do
what you can to minimize any
standing water on your property
to minimize the breeding ground
for the mosquitoes. If you live
near an abandoned home with a
stagnant pool, contact the
county health department and see
if they can order the pool
drained, or stock the pool with
mosquito larvae eating fish.
Using mosquito repellent is a
good idea as well when you go
outside.
Theater Lovers are Raving about
Bark! The Musical
This runaway smash hit musical
earned "two paws up" from The
Humane Society of the United
States, Hollywood office.
BARK! is all about man's best
friend and is told and sung from
the dog's point of view.
Howlingly funny, fast paced and
sometimes poignant, BARK! is a
joyful new American original
musical with compelling
performances by a stellar six
member cast. If you love your
dog, you will love BARK!
Bark is playing through 3-15 at
the Grove theater in Upland.
Click here for details.
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Case of the
Month:
 Rhett
Butler is a 10 year old black
lab who presented to us last
week with a history of chronic
cough with a 3 month duration.
He had been losing weight over
the past 3 months as well. The
owners reported that he lives
only in their yard and had not
been to any other places where
he could have been exposed to
infectious dogs.
On presentation, Rhett looked
thin and a bit depressed. He
was slow to respond to stimuli
in the exam room. On physical
examination, Rhett was pale and
breathing rapidly, though
shallowly throughout the exam.
He had a deep honking cough when
his trachea (windpipe) was
manipulated. The lungs
themselves sounded clear.
Listening to the heart, we could
hear a murmur which had not been
there 4 months ago when he was
examined. Murmurs occur when
the blood in the heart is not
flowing smoothly, usually due to
leaky valves.
Click
Here
 Fun
Dog Facts:
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Dogs only sweat from the
bottoms of
 their
feet, the only way they can
discharge heat is by
panting. Dogs and wolves
yawn as a sign of
contentment.
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Dogs have about 100
different facial
expressions, most of them
made with the ears.
Unfortunately, the likes of
bulldogs and pitbulls only
have 10, due to their
breeding. Therefore, these
dogs easily get
misinterpreted by other dogs
and often get into fights.
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One of the worlds oldest
breeds of dog is the Saluki.
It is thought to have been
developed in ancient
Mesopotamia around 3000 B.C.
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"Three dog night"
(attributed to Australian
Aborigines) came about
because on especially cold
nights these nomadic people
needed three dogs (dingos,
actually) to keep from
freezing.
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A dog's sense of smell is
one of the keenest in
nature. If a pot of stew was
cooking on a stove, a human
would smell the stew, while
the dog could smell the
beef, carrots, peas,
potatoes, spices, and all
the other individual
ingredients in the stew. In
fact, if you unfolded and
laid out the delicate
membranes from inside a dogs
nose, the membranes would be
larger than the dog itself.
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Two dogs survived the
sinking of Titanic, yes
that's right, two DOGS
survived. They escaped on
early lifeboats carrying so
few people that no one
objected. Miss Margaret Hays
of New York brought her
Pomeranian with her in
lifeboat No. 7, while Henry
Sleeper Harper of the
publishing family boarded
boat No. 3 with his
Pekinese, Sun Yat Sen.
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Giving dogs chocolate could
be fatal for them, because
theobromine, an ingredient
of chocolate, stimulates the
central nervous system and
cardiac muscle. About 1.1 kg
of milk chocolate or just
146 g of cooking chocolate
(which has more theobromine
per gram) could kill a 22 kg
dog.
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Give
the Gift of Health and everyone
wins!
The greatest compliment you can give us
is your personal referral to friends and
family. We have created our "Gift of
Health" program to help you encourage
referrals to our practice. Here's how it
works:
- Refer your friends or family
members to us and as new client
referrals they will receive their
1st visit at 1/2 off the normal fee.
- That is a $19.00 savings!
- When they come in, we will send
you a thank you letter with a coupon
for $10.00 on any veterinary
services (food, drugs and supplies
are not eligible).
- After you refer 10 clients to
us, you will become a permanent
"Good Health Ambassador" and receive
10% off on all your veterinary
services for the year.
If you are happy with the services we
have been providing, spread the word and
give the Gift of Health to all your
friends today.
We appreciate your support! |
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Save $105.00 off any Tumor Removal
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Schedule
a tumor removal and get the Histopathology Lab test
($105.00 value) FREE!
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Offer Expires: April 30th 2009 (Coupon must be
presented at the time of procedure. Limit 1 offer per
family, one path report per pet). Vaccinations must be
current., Tumor removal may require pre operative blood
testing and examinations. Only applicable to single
histopathology test. |
Free Vaccine!
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Receive a free Kennel Cough (Bordetella) vaccine
with a physical examination!
A $17.00 Value!
Valid for scheduled
examinations only.
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Offer Expires: March 31st, 2009 Limit 4 per family.
Coupon must be presented at the time of service.
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Save $5.00 off
Heartworm Test
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Save $5.00 off the cost of Heartworm testing when
you purchase 12 months supply of Iverhart Plus
Heartworm Preventive.
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Offer Expires: April 30th, 2009. No limit on number
of pets. Test can be performed during an exam or during
our clinic hours 12:30 to 3:00 PM Mon-Sat
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$30.00
Credit
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Earn up to
$30.00 for your opinion!
Help us
build our business by reviewing our hospital on the
web. Your opinion matters!
Print out your review, bring them in to the front
office and receive $5.00 hospital credit* for each
review you submit (up to 6 review).
We
encourage your honest opinion of our practice. if
you have a harsh review, I encourage you to address
it directly to me at drshuf@aol.com, before posting
so that I can address your issues and improve our
practice for all.
Click the links
below to go to the review sites for our hospital.
You can copy and paste your review from one site to
the next.
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Offer Expires: 4/30/2009 Maximum $30.00 credit per
household. May be used on any veterinary services or
products except diets. |
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