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For many of us, a pet cancer diagnosis is a loud wake-up call to be more vigilant about our animals' health. Suddenly, we get an education we never wanted or expected, and we're thrown into the world of advanced veterinary specialty care before we even learned anything about the basics.

Fact: Pets age faster than we do, so missing even one yearly checkup
can be like us not visiting a doctor for over five years!

Let's see a show of hands; for those of us whose pets have been diagnosed with cancer, how many of us were committed to annual veterinary check-ups while they were completely healthy?

We'll go first: when it came to our time with Tripawds founder Jerry G. Dawg, he rarely saw the vet until the dreaded osteosarcoma limp developed. His successor Wyatt Ray Dawg has the benefit of our learning curve, and he gets annual check-ups at the Community Practice Clinic at Colorado State.

We live, and we learn. And our pets get the benefit of our new-found knowledge. Becoming educated about our pet's health care needs is our greatest responsibility as pet parents.

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Partners For Healthy Pets is a committee of the non-profit American Veterinary Medical Foundation dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of America’s pets through regular preventive healthcare.