The Gift of Pets: Stories Only a Vet Could Tell (35 page)

THE GIFT OF PETS. Copyright © 2012 by Bruce R. Coston. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Coston, Bruce R.

    The gift of pets: stories only a vet could tell / Bruce R. Coston.—1st ed.

            p. cm.

    ISBN 978-1-250-00666-0 (hardcover)

    ISBN 978-1-250-01498-6 (e-book)

  1.  Pets—Anecdotes.   2.  Pet owners—Anecdotes.   3.  Veterinary medicine—Anecdotes.   I.  Title.

    SF411.5C674 2012

    636.088'7—dc23

2012011013

eISBN 9781250014986

First Edition: August 2012