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Face masks have been credited with saving lives during the COVID-19 crisis.
But those same items, when left within reach of dogs, can cause serious, potentially life-threatening, health complications to animals, veterinarians warn.
Betsy Kehoe knows this all too well. The Harvard woman became concerned last fall when her beloved 2-year-old Labrador retriever, King, normally energetic and “still a puppy” in many ways, stopped eating.
Although his energy level and personality remained unchanged, refusing food was out of character and concerning, she said.
“You just know what’s not right,” she said.
A worried Kehoe brought King to the Henry and Lois Foster Hospital for Small Animals at Cummings Veterinary Medical Center at Tufts University in Grafton.