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Animal ER 


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Pug in pink bandage

Snake medicine

Iguana

Bunny

Doggie dialysis



 
New York, New York (map), 1998
Photograph by Erik Freeland

Introduction: New York’s Animal Medical Center (AMC) is a veterinary hospital that treats more than 65,000 animals a year. That’s an average of more than 175 animals a day. Its excellent reputation has attracted pet owners from the New York area as well as distant places such as Russia.

Caption: "After a car hit Kiwi [a pug], doctors pumped fluid into her veins through a tube inserted in her leg. The bandage holds the tube in place. . . . Vets at the Animal Medical Center also treat pets with diseases and pets that have fallen out of apartment windows—in one case from 46 stories high."

—From "Saving Lives in the Animal ER," December 1998, National Geographic World magazine


  
 
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