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Warning about buying pet medicines online - WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC-
We spend tens of millions of dollars on our pets every year in this country, especially on the everyday things they need to stay healthy.
Items such as prescriptions, flea medicine, and heart worm pills can be so pricey at the vet's office.
It's tempting to buy them online where those same drugs are so much cheaper.
However, animal experts from local vets to the federal government say these medications could be putting your pet in danger.
Xylitol can be deadly to dogs
By now, everyone knows chocolate is toxic to dogs. It seems that every veterinarian's office is adorned with posters telling cautionary tales of pumped puppy stomachs, with the sad eyes and foil wrappers to prove them. Meanwhile, xylitol's power languishes in pet owner obscurity, even as its reach expands.
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Valley man aims to reunite owners, lost pets by going digital
Dirk Van Vorris is manufacturing digital pet identification tags that can be scanned by any smartphone. Once scanned, any information the pet’s owner put on the tag appears on the screen of the smartphone.
The tag is limited to 3,500 characters but should leave plenty of room for contact information so a good Samaritan can return the pet to its owner.
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