Parker County Today PCT MAY 2019 | Page 48

our best: PARKER COUNTY’S TOP 10 VET PRACTICES CARING FOR ALL CREATURES, GREAT AND SMALL Parker Countains love their animals, many love them more than they love most people. Right now, Parker County people are spending more on pets than ever before, ranking companionship, love, company and affection as the number one benefit to owning a pet. It doesn’t matter if it happens to be a Yorkie or a Clydesdale, pets are what drive people to spend billions on pet supplies and vet care. Because of the profound impact pets have on our lives, we highly value the great vets who provide care for them when they need it the most. It’s the ones that brave every kind of weather to tend to our animals— the folks that make our pets feel better when they’re hurt or sick. They are the ones who nurse them back to health or help them through all aspects of the reproduction process. They deliver our foals, our puppies, our kittens and sometimes a snake or two (do they actually ‘deliver’ snakes? Or are they actually ‘hatched?’). When it’s time for pets to cross over that rainbow bridge, it’s usually a veterinarian that is there to help ease them out of life with empathy and with dignity. 46 Most families consider their vet to be part of their family. We rely on them, we trust them, we even love them. And now, we honor them.