Man’s best friend. That’s what they call dogs-and it’s so true. They are wonderful creatures, loyal, beautiful and noble. (Even the chirping, seemingly annoying little Chihuahua if you remove it from its teen-starlet master.) Dogs give back so much more than they take. Food and walking are duties, of that there is no doubt, yet the love and affection that they shower you with makes up for all that. Many days you even look forward to walking them. It’s just you and your furry buddy out for an adventurous stroll. Bites, however infrequent as they are, invite a visit to a walk in clinic.

Most dogs are well-behaved, healthy and happy-but depending on where you live there are exceptions. If in a city, there are the bred-for-balls Pitt Bull. If in the countryside, the neglected hungry hound. These are the dogs that bite and these are the dogs that send you to the walk in clinic. A walk in clinic is a facility with experience in just this type of non-life threatening injury.

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