Posted on April 10, 2009 by marcthevet
ThePet.net‘s co-founder and vet Marc Abraham offers this advice: We all know that on this festive weekend chocolate Easter eggs are a naughty lure to us humans but for any nosey pooch it could prove to be a fatal temptation. Dogs ingesting even the smallest quantities of chocolate can suffer severe life-threatening seizures and in [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2009 by marcthevet
Ever wondered why Easter is associated with bunnies? It’s thought that the hunt for eggs came first, with no association to the rabbit at all! As excited children eagerly searched for the eggs, they flushed out rabbits and thus began the stories of the rabbits leaving the eggs behind. Eggs were also traditionally given out [...]
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