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Dr. David Slocum can’t count how many pets his clinic, the Hazel Dell Animal Hospital, is seeing on a daily basis right now. It’s that busy.
“It seems like a whole bunch,” said Slocum, 73. “I worked this morning. I started about a quarter to nine and we had eight or nine people in the parking lot.
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