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Plan B – What’s next for your pet if you are out of the picture?

March 24, 2021
| By Kim Bromley
Categories: Behavior & Training
| Tags: Emergency planning
This is Claude. He’s my first poodle in fifty years of dog guardianship and I hope not my last. He’s twelve years old and the smartest dog I’ve ever lived with. And that’s saying something. Claude came to live with us two years ago when his mom, Patty, one of the dearest friends I’ve ever …

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