Always There for Pets ; After-Hours Clinic Sees Animals, Owners in Their Time of Greatest Need

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MORAINE -- Um, 911 for pets? During the holiday season, when most people are drinking eggnog and donning party hats, the staff at the Dayton Emergency Veterinary Clinic is gearing up for a busy night handling emergency calls for unwell animals and their worried owners.

Florescent lights send reflections off the spotless metal tables. Noises fill the air: the buzz of a shaver, the laughs of assistants and the hum of a blood machine. The clinic's resident cat, Hugo, who donates blood for a living, soothes the fretting patients.

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Always There for Pets ; After-Hours Clinic Sees Animals, Owners in Their Time of Greatest Need

It's 9 p.m. The sleepy eyes of the people in the waiting room sharply contrast the wakeful movements of the technicians on duty.

Established in 1978 by more than 60 M...

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