Dogs owners urged to microchip pets

Vet Richard Hurley with Ruth O’Connell who is on work experience at the practice in Rock Street/Brewery Road. Photo by Gavin O’Connor
    TRALEE dog owners are being urged to ‘Chip It Check It’ as part of a nationwide ‘National Chipping Month’ campaign during September. The initiative highlights the benefits of microchipping pets and  reminds pet owners to make sure that telephone numbers and contact details are up to date and correctly registered for their microchipped pet. There are hundreds of offers for free  or cut-price microchipping available during the month.   “The dogs should be c...
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Rough time for puppies cruelly abandoned and left to perish

Rough time for puppies cruelly abandoned and left to perish
SIX shivering little seven-week-old collie cross puppies, who should have been snuggling up to the warmth of their mother, were instead abandoned in a box and left to perish on Wednesday night on a footpath at Riverwalk, Oakview in Tralee. Thankfully, a quick thinking female passerby immediately rang Jean Campbell of Animal Help Net in Tralee after she found the three male and three female puppie. "After I got the call I rang Vet Richard Hurley and thankfully he w...
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